Top 10 worst zoos for elephants
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E-mail idausa.org, October 18, 2014
Los Angeles Zoo, California
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The Los Angeles Zoo has a terrible history of 14 elephant deaths, but that didn’t stop it from charging ahead with a wasteful 42 million U.S. dollars elephant exhibit that still will be too small for elephants. The zoo misled city officials into supporting the project by distorting the truth and even covering up a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) stipulated fine for failure to provide adequate and timely veterinary care in the 2006 death of the elephant Gita -- critical information that may have changed the outcome of the city council's vote to continue displaying elephants at the zoo. The zoo's lone elephant, Billy, continues to suffer in cruel solitary confinement and display abnormal repetitive head bobbing, a sign of psychological distress.
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