Comments on: Judge Issues First-Ever Habeas Corpus Order for an Elephant

By: manon galipeau

manon galipeau — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:11:09 +0000

Things are happening. One day there will be no more intelligent mammals in captivity. But it won’t be easy. Marineland has been fighting to keep their orca. Edmonton’s River Valley Zoo is doing the same thing to keep Lucy, an elephant who has never seen a congener and who lives by herself surrounded only by humans. Sanctuaries have offered to take her, but the zoo refuses. They still make money on the back of this magnificent and intelligent mammals.

By: Gale McCullough

Gale McCullough — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 19:26:43 +0000

In reply to Corie. Corie that is my very favorite quote! One I try to live by.

By: Sandra Julian

Sandra Julian — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 18:34:08 +0000

OrcamonthBC is thrilled for Happy and for captive whales in future.
@orcamonthbc

By: Sara ross

Sara ross — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 18:20:15 +0000

Great news, thank you MIchael mountain and mr. Wise , and mr Bannister.

By: Debbie Hite

Debbie Hite — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:18:41 +0000

What wonderful NEWS!!!
Finally!!!!!
The humans are getting it!!!!!!!
May Captivity End !

By: Necole Cook

Necole Cook — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 06:33:40 +0000

Captivity kills no matter what form it is in. Yes Animals feel more than we do if not more. Dolphins for example have bigger brains than we do. Are complex recognize themselves in mirrors etc. Animals are paying the price for man’s greed and ignorance

By: Corie

Corie — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 03:16:38 +0000

This is the kind of outcome from compassionate, empathetic and knowledgeable animal rights people and these judges that bring me to tears. The ridicule, insults and apathy expressed at my grief for these animals has been little price to pay when I see successes like this. Goodness, kindness, understanding, does prevail.

The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”
― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod