Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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A Blog designed for discussion of topics related to, but not limited to, Circus, Zoos, Animal Training, and Animal Welfare/Husbandry. Sometimes opening up the dialog is the best starting point of all. And if for nothing else when people who agree and don't agree, get together and start discussing it, it will open up a lot of peoples minds. Debate and discussion even amongst themselves opens a window where there wasn't one before.
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I think I am correct that Col. Joe was the first male elephant successfully castrated. All previous attempts were unsuccessful or resulted in the deaths of the male.
The procedure was done at the veterinary school at Univ. of Cal. at Davis. Am not sure of the exact date but I believe it was in the early 1970s.
It is iteresting the stories of males that were castrated yet still exhibit periods of musth, and older stories of males anaesthized for castration that were never intended to wake back up.
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