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Already under construction is a 6-acre elephant exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo. But tomorrow, the city council will take up a motion to stop the project. Animal friendly Councilman Tony Cardenas wants the city to develop a 60-acre elephant preserve instead. Joyce Poole, a pachyderm expert, said the zoo's elephant--Billy--is bobbing and swaying his head. "I know that some people believe that elephants do that in the wild, but having observed elephants for many, many years, seeing perhaps 10,000 different individuals ... I have never seen head-bobbing and I have never seen swaying," Poole said. "This type of behavior is pathological. It is a result of being in a confined space."
LA Zoo Elephant has Pathological Behavior, Expert Says
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Every single time I've been to the zoo here the elephant has been doing the same thing. Bobbing his head and sort of rocking side to side. Anyone that looks can see the space is tiny and boring. It's like watching the super depressing chained elephant scenes from Dumbo.
Bah! G Pro beat me to it.
He also walks in circles. It's really sad to watch.
I think a 60 acre enclosure would be great. However, they really shouldn't stop the completion of the 6 acre enclosure. All that will do is keep the elephant in the small cement enclosure he has been in for the last few years while we deal with the beaurocracy of getting him into a better one. Just let the zoo finish the 6 acre one first. move the elephant in, get it some friends, and then start working on a bigger enclosure.