Following are four flash videos taken at the San Diego Zoo on May 17, 2013, when I was with Bryan and Liz Flint. They are from Houston, and Liz is an old blogging friend whom I first met online in 2008. So don’t despair if you’ve known someone online for several years and don’t think you’ll ever meet them in person. It can happen!
We’re dirty!
Bird or fish?
If I wasn’t dirty before…….
Ummmm, good!
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What dreadful surroundings for the elephants, do they have any space to roam, and things to do to alleviate the awful boredom of being captive???
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The elephants seem to love it there. They have seven acres to run around in, places to play in the water, places to roll around in the dirt (I have pictures to prove it!), they get pedicures all the time, and water baths, and all sorts of food, too.
The two emaciated elephants that the Zoo rescued from some private jerk in Texas have been here a year now and have put on a few hundred pounds and are now happily roaming the grounds with the other elephants.
They are anything but bored!
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Sounds wonderful Ray, you’ve put my mind at rest, I’d have been feeling miserable in the small hours of the morning ! And how heart-warming that the two elephants have been rescued and are happy – great story thank you…
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The elephants look as though they may have made the audience dirty too.
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Nah. We were far away. The beauty of these telephoto camera lenses!
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loved the elephant and now I am craving a clark bar 😉
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After seeing the elephants in Africa… I can’t say that they’re happy in the zoo even though we’d all like to believe so. Now if they were tortured by some douche bag than I’m sure they are happier at the zoo… but for instance the seeing the leopard in a cage really bothered me because it clearly wasn’t happy… at least to me.
BTW, I’m not against zoos because they do a lot of good… its just some of them don’t look happy with where they are.
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I think the only animals that are not happy at the Zoo are the newborns that haven’t overcome their natural instinct, parents who worry about the newborn, and animals that are rescued from the wild or, in the case of our newest two elephants, rescued from idiots who have enough money to buy elephants but have no clue how to care for them. Elephants are a keystone species so it’s important that we try to keep as many in the wild as possible. That’s where Zoos come in with their breeding and release programs. Many of the Zoo’s elephants from Safari Park have been released back into the wild in Africa, even though the “wild in Africa” is defined as elephant sanctuaries there. Adult elephants don’t really have any predators other than man, but injured elephants and juveniles do have to worry, so I suspect the elephants are quite happy in the Zoo getting fresh food all the time, playing in the water, getting baths and pedicures and scrubdowns, and not having to worry about any predators eating the old and the young.
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Love the elephant one! Haha…echhhh! The camel would be a great fit on a baseball team!
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It would, wouldn’t it. Maybe the San Diego Camels……..lol
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