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Outrage erupted among animal welfare activists after Colorado courts ruled that five captive elephants could not petition for release. An animal rights group presented the case in Colorado.
Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state's highest court said the animals have no legal right to demand their release because they are not human. Tuesday's ...
The United States of America is the only country in the world that has banned killing horses for consumption, [citation needed] and India have banned killing cows for consumption in some of its states. [citation needed] Cow is the national animal of Nepal and cow slaughter is a punishable offense as per the prevailing law.
In 1882, Abraham Bartlett, superintendent of the London zoo, sparked national controversy with his decision to sell Jumbo to the American entertainer Phineas T. Barnum of the Barnum & Bailey Circus for £2,000 (US$10,000). [4] This decision came as a result of concern surrounding Jumbo's growing aggression and potential to cause a public disaster.
There are currently around 415,000 African elephants in the world (African bush and African forest combined), but there are only approximately 40,000 to 50,000 Asian elephants left.
In The Moral Circle, Sebo examines the complexities surrounding moral consideration across various beings.The text opens with two notable events from June 2022: a legal case involving Happy the Elephant, which highlighted the limitations of nonhuman legal rights, and claims made by a Google engineer regarding the sentience of LaMDA, an AI chatbot, which raised questions about the moral status ...
Elephant executions occurred most frequently in the United States during the carnival-circus era of roughly 1850 to 1950; at least 36 elephants were executed between the 1880s and the 1920s. [1] [2] During this era, elephant behavior was often explained anthropomorphically, and thus granted a moral dimension wherein their actions were "good" or ...
Given an estimated global population of less than 500,000, it is believed that elephants are nearing extinction. Elephants are among the strongest in the animal kingdom and the second tallest ...