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Elephants have social structures and dietary behaviors that might not be adequately catered to when in captivity and in restricted spaces. Adult male elephants often leave the herd when they are ...
Some researchers contend that captivity at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, among other zoos, has harmful emotional and neurological impacts on elephants. Elephants need larger spaces to ...
Proponents of elephants in zoos argue that wild elephants walk long distances because of the necessity of finding water, food, or mates, but that captive elephants do not require the same amount of walking if resources are more readily available. [7] In the wild, elephant herds (particularly those of African elephants) can be quite large. [4]
Animal captivity is the confinement of domestic and wild animals. [1] More specifically, animals that are held by humans and prevented from escaping are said to be in captivity . [ 2 ] The term animal captivity is usually applied to wild animals that are held in confinement, but this term may also be used generally to describe the keeping of ...
This is thought to be possibly why elephants suffer from psychological flashbacks and the equivalent of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). [18] [19] The encephalization quotient (EQ) (the size of the brain relative to body size) of elephants ranges from 1.13 to 2.36. The average EQ is 2.14 for Asian elephants, and 1.67 for African, with the ...
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo do not have human rights. Here, an elephant walks within the Kimana Sanctuary in Kenya, February 8, 2021.
Temple elephants are usually wild animals, poached from wild herds at a young age and then sold into captivity to temples. [1] Temple elephants usually take part in religious rituals or processions; believers also allow themselves to be blessed by them. [2] However, sometimes a temple owns several or many elephants that are not (all) used for ...
An expert on Asian elephants is sounding the alarm about "elephant sanctuaries" after a tourist was killed while visiting one in Thailand.. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, a law student at the ...