Weeping Elephant Project

Working to end captive elephant entertainment & breeding in the US. Advocating for those still held through transparency, education, & welfare reform.

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Zoos have a new favorite defense: captive elephants live longer. Call it the industry’s “it's for their own good.”

Read on our Substack:

https://t.co/WgGRG5c9WI

[In Defense Of Animals @IDAUSA]

Trees are wrapped in wire to stop #elephants from eating their leaves. At ABQ BioPark Zoo, Alice broke through a steel barrier to reach fresh vegetation. Urge the zoo to send Alice & her companions to sanctuary! Act now https://t.co/5nKStz9he3
RT & support https://t.co/5zQberKEZD

[Nonhuman Rights Project @NonhumanRights]

Yesterday 48 yr old African elephant & NhRP former client, Kimba was euthanized at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Our case on her behalf reached the highest state court in Colorado. Read the full statement on Kimba's passing from our Executive Director: https://t.co/U45g2nWFgh

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To read more about this behavior, check out the following:

🔗 https://t.co/m3w1twGDg9

🔗 https://t.co/zQ19UwiN39

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Stand in front of an elephant enclosure long enough and you'll probably see a slow, rhythmic sway, side to side, over and over. Most people read it as a quirk — something elephants just do. It isn't.

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Swaying isn't a personality trait. It isn't something a better enclosure fixes once it's already happened. It's what captivity does to an elephant's nervous system — and the damage doesn't check out when the elephant does.

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Another note from a former keeper at Busch Gardens Tampa.

Sign emails to Busch Gardens & the AZA, comment on their social media posts, and more:

🔗 https://t.co/fVq8iQXhhN

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Read more on our Resource Hub: https://t.co/b7oCCygEwD

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Elephants are famous for never forgetting. Matriarchs lead their families back to water sources they haven't seen in years — a capacity built on one of the most developed hippocampi of any land mammal, the brain structure responsible for memory and spatial navigation.

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For the full interview, listen to the latest episode of Bearing Weight — available wherever you get your podcasts.

🔗 Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/bNIEPXmXH3

🔗 Spotify: https://t.co/xyREnj8afj

🔗 YouTube: https://t.co/s3Mz64B61A

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New clip from our interview with Rachel Hale, about the tension she still hasn't resolved. Rachel spent years as a senior keeper at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, working hands-on with great apes, cheetahs, and other animals in managed care.

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Original account via @farmtr_project