Showing posts with label elephant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elephant. Show all posts

Tuesday 24 February 2009

Ripped from the headlines

Bob Barker, well-known and popular ex-game show host is angry with Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for keeping Lucy the elephant in an inappropriate environment. He claims that she is sick and should be transferred to an elephant sanctuary in California citing the harsh, cold winters in Edmonton as one of the reasons the pachyderm is not doing well. but city fathers and zoo officials say that Lucy is healthy except for a tooth problem and insist that an extended trip may kill the elephant.

After being pressured by Zoocheck Canada, a Toronto-based animal rights group, the Edmonton zoo released the following photo which it says demonstrates that Lucy is well cared for and is provided the same highly effective protection from the cold that most Canadians use:


The story.

Thursday 14 August 2008

Rain delay

...prompted an airing of "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?"

I believe it was in about grade four that I learned that a blue whale is the largest animal in the world. Apparently, some people think the tiny elephant is the largest. His fifth grader classmate saved him.

I can understand the confusion: