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Is the Rhino trained to go to the rubber mat and lay down on command, or does he go there because that is where he is hosed off?
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From what I see if he was trained to lay down on the mat they didn't put a "stay or hold it" command on him. He was still getting hosed and he walked off.
Ned, 30 days later
http://www.elephants.com/Ned/ned_diary.htm
I posted this link from Anonymous, so you all could see the "spin" that is done by both side. A fair organization would have also shown a video of well cared for elephants. My industry would also reference the confiscations, as they are hanging paper for the great care. That won't happen from either of the "ax grinders",who have both forgotten it is about the animals. I hope readers of this blog will be able to make a much more "educated" decision based on facts, not self serving publicity.
Wade
The issue isn't whether there are well cared for elephants or not - obviously there are. The point is to show the progress of one particular elephant, just as any animal rehab place would.
Anonymous,
Don't you start the spin. The Elephant Sanctuary which I have never had a problem with, has stepped into Peta territory enough times, I have lost a bit of respect for them.
Wade
There was not a single Sumatran rhino in America for almost 80 years or from 1908 when the Ringling example died until the importations of the 1980s in an effort at ex-situ breeding. I had thought I’d never see one alive.
Now Cincinnati zoo has bred them - -three so far. But keeping them alive is very difficult. The San Diego zoo lost theirs in relatively short order. They are browsers and seem to do best on ficus.
As this video clip shows, they are likely the most gentle of all the rhino species, except that the males are tough on the females at breeding season.
Because they live in the densest jungles of Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo and possibly still in Burma, field observations are most difficult. It is therefore difficult to determine the animals’ biological and ecological needs.
Logging destruction of the rain forests is a terrible problem, preventing animals of breeding age from getting together. There cannot be more than about 300 of them left - - certifiably one of the rarest of all large mammals.
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