OREGON ZOO:
RETIRE CHENDRA
TO A SANCTUARY
Chendra, the long-suffering Oregon Zoo elephant, has endured years of chronic pain, disease, isolation and loss.
It’s time for the Oregon Zoo to free Chendra to the sanctuary awaiting her!
“Stereotypies – incessant repeated pacing, pulling, bobbing- is common to both incarcerated humans and animals as a desperate attempt to protect the mind against unbearable conditions and trauma.”
Dr. Gay Bradshaw, noted psychologist and ecologist.
“Confined elephants often spend their time standing around in cramped quarters. . . . These tortuous conditions inflict serious physical and psychological damage on such smart and sensitive animals. “ . . . captive breeding programs should be terminated.”
Scientific American Opinion and Analysis Editorial, March 2014.
City Zoo
By Vivian Yeiser Laramore
The tick of time is out of rhyme,
Where wild things wait for death,
Watching the stars through iron bars,
And breathing each other’s breath.
But little man with his civic plan,
To conquer and subdue,
Acquires a thrill from broken will,
Of beasts in the city zoo.
Where wild things wait for death,
Watching the stars through iron bars,
And breathing each other’s breath.
But little man with his civic plan,
To conquer and subdue,
Acquires a thrill from broken will,
Of beasts in the city zoo.
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