P.E.T.A. Requests Elephant Move

The animal "rights" group, P.E.T.A., has called on the National Zoo to move its three Asian elephants to a "sanctuary" in Tennessee or California. (Link)

"Critics have said that zoo conditions, including small, concrete-floored enclosures, make elephants miserable," Reuters reports.

The NC Zoo currently exhibits three African elephants on about 3 1/2 acres. Plans are to exhibit up to 10 or 12 on seven acres and to create much improved, off exhibit exercise yards and "barn".

The added socialization of a larger herd and changes in facilities and management will give the elephants even more mobility...24/7. (Elephants will even be able to choose to go into their natural habitat exhibit at night, after they have gone to the "barn".)