Fw: primfocus: Fwd: re Gorillas at Pretoria Zoo

[Guest guest]

Some more things to ponder ..

 

Why are no criminal charges pending?**

 

Why does Kevin Lazarus still have his job as director of Taiping Zoo?

 

Why does Pretoria Zoo, a zoo with an appalling record of gorilla care and no

history of gorilla conservation to my knowledge, win the lottery with these

4 gorillas?

 

Why would these " castrating " or " dumping off into the wild to die " rumors

about Limbe be out there, if not to somehow try to justify something that

simply can't be justified?

 

Jane Dewar

 

**True story: I'm reminded of a newspaper story I read while in South Africa

in 1984, as part of my then-job as travel planner for a prestigeous tour

company. The article described the scene off in a ditch, where a car was

riddled with bullet holes, the victims were decapitated and gruesome details

were described. At the end of the story, it said, and I'm not kidding, I

quote verbatim: " Foul play is suspected. "

 

Ya think??

 

 

 

 

-

" Shirley McGreal " <smcgreal

<primfocus

Sunday, April 18, 2004 10:00 AM

primfocus: Fwd: re Gorillas at Pretoria Zoo

 

 

> The " Taiping Four " gorillas were flown to South Africa on Malaysian

> Airlines Flight MH201, which departed on April 14, 1:05 am Malaysian time,

> from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, non-stop to Johannesburg. Oddly,

> some slanderer told a Malaysian reporter that Limbe " castrates " its

> gorillas, in order to discredit the wildlife center. I expect this

argument

> had been tossed around earlier in the discussions about the destination of

> the animals. Of course nobody from Malaysia ever bothered to visit Limbe.

I

> am checking the South African press and there is still no mention of the

> gorillas. Maybe there will be some big press conference at which the

> Malaysian and SA officials will pat themselves on their respective backs

> with various international dignitaries flying in!!!! More genes for the

> captive gorilla population. Three of the " Taiping Four " are females.

Shirley

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