Getting Elephants

[cleusk]

Forgive my ignorance, but do zoos in America still obtain elephants from the wild? Or is it done through loaning and buying them from other zoos?

 

[DavidBrown]

Apparently Pittsburgh brought some in from Botswana recently, but very quietly so none of the animal rights people would hassle them (Rescued Botswana Elephants Take Another, Shorter, Journey).

San Diego and Tampa brought in a group of elephants from Swaziland that drove the animal rights folks crazy.

The Africam Safari zoo in Mexico recently brought in some elephants from Namibia.

These imports are to reboot the North American captive African elephant breeding program so that there will eventually be a self-sustaining captive population.

 

[cleusk]

Thanks for the feedback. I wasn't sure because of all the laws, regulations, and animal rights groups. It used to be that the big cats could be fed horse meat, but then that got banned.

 

[zooboy28]

Thanks for the feedback. I wasn't sure because of all the laws, regulations, and animal rights groups. It used to be that the big cats could be fed horse meat, but then that got banned.

Why would they ban that??? Unless there is a disease that horses may have that affects big cats?

 

[cleusk]

Activists against slaughterhouses managed to get Congress to defund horse meat inspections. Since you can't sell uninspected horse meat, the horse slaughterhouse industry in America died.

 

[jbnbsn99]

The horse meat ban has been over turned.