{"id":1522,"date":"2004-05-22T10:58:38","date_gmt":"2004-05-22T14:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/05\/22\/\/"},"modified":"2004-05-22T10:58:38","modified_gmt":"2004-05-22T14:58:38","slug":"1522","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/1522\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/elephant.jpg\" alt=\"baby elephant in the wild\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/nm\/20040520\/us_nm\/environment_elephants_dc_2\" rel=\"external\">Detroit Zoo to Free Elephants on Ethical Grounds<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong>&#8220;The Detroit Zoo will become the first major zoo to stop exhibiting elephants on ethical grounds because they can develop arthritis and stress-related ailments in captivity, officials said on Thursday.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the wild, elephants roam vast areas, live in large families, and exhibit some of the same social traits as humans such as forming friendships and mourning for their dead. &#8220;Elephants seem to be intelligent and even social in ways that are similar to humans,&#8221; Kagen said. &#8220;Elephants can suffer from similar things to what we suffer from when we&#8217;re in difficult environments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Confined to zoos and circuses, elephants develop physical problems and neurotic behaviors such as rocking back and forth and aggressive behavior, he said. &#8220;If we don&#8217;t feel like we can (keep elephants), then the question is, who can and how?,&#8221; he said. &#8220;For us, there really is a big question about whether elephants should be in captivity at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapel-perilous.net\" rel=\"external\">chapel perilous<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Zoo to Free Elephants on Ethical Grounds&#8220;The Detroit Zoo will become the first major zoo to stop exhibiting elephants on ethical grounds because they can develop arthritis and stress-related ailments in captivity, officials said on Thursday.&#8221; In the wild, elephants roam vast areas, live in large families, and exhibit some of the same social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}