An Entertainment Abuses Article from All-Creatures.org

Toledo Zoo's Captive Elephant Kirkja

From The Nonhuman Rights Project
June 2024

Kirkja is a female African elephant born at the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium on February 17, 2024 to two wild-born elephants who never met. Nothing about Kirkja’s unnatural zoo existence bears any resemblance to what an elephant’s life should look like. 

Kirkja is a female African elephant born at the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium on February 17, 2024 to two wild-born elephants who never met.

Initially thought to be a male, and named Kirk, the zoo discovered three months after her birth that she was a female and renamed her Kirkja.

She is housed in an environment wholly unsuited for elephants: an exhibit slightly larger than an acre, together with three other elephants (her mother, an unrelated adult male, and an adult female).

Nothing about Kirkja’s unnatural zoo existence bears any resemblance to what an elephant’s life should look like.

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Posted on All-Creatures.org: June 7, 2024
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