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Cow is the national animal of Nepal and cow slaughter is a punishable offense as per the prevailing law. In 2014, the Jain pilgrimage destination of Palitana City in Indian state of Gujarat became the first city in the world to be legally vegetarian .
The controversial practice of circus animal acts is legal in the US. [61] In 2015 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced it will phase out its use of elephants by 2018, [62] but ended up shutting down in 2017. In May 2022, the circus announced it would resume touring in 2023 without the use of animals.
Since then, captive elephants have been used around the world in war, ceremony, and for labor and entertainment. [1] Captive elephants have been kept in animal collections for at least 3,500 years. The first elephant arrived in North America in 1796. [1] London Zoo, the first scientific zoo, housed elephants beginning in 1831. [2]
Phylogenetic analysis of nuclear DNA of African bush and forest elephants, Asian elephant, woolly mammoth, and American mastodon revealed that the African bush elephant and the African forest elephant form a sister group that genetically diverged at least 1.9 million years ago. They are therefore considered distinct species.
Elephant execution is distinct from both animal euthanasia (in which the animal is put down because it is ill, has behavioral problems, or simply cannot be maintained) and from killing an elephant that is in the midst of an ongoing attack or "rampage". Elephant execution is a ritual process with a pseudo-legal or performative aspect.
The action was brought by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Animal Protection Institute, the Animal Welfare Institute, the Fund for Animals, and Tom Rider, a former employee of Ringling Bros. [7] In late 2009, the suit was dismissed by the courts because it was ruled that the plaintiffs, ASPCA et al., as private ...
Circuses have been phasing out elephants for years for a number of reasons, including concerns about the ethics of animal performances and a growing commitment to the conservation of endangered ...
African bush elephants and Asian elephants are listed as endangered and African forest elephants as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). One of the biggest threats to elephant populations is the ivory trade , as the animals are poached for their ivory tusks.