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Let my elephants go: a new Canadian documentary spotlights animal welfare in zoos

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JL;DR SUMMARY Fern Levitt's new documentary, "Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants," investigates the ethical concerns surrounding elephant captivity in Canadian zoos, drawing parallels between animal suffering and historical human atrocities. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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LegislationDocumentaryCanadaJewish ValuesCaptivityAnimal WelfareZoosFern LevittLucy The ElephantTza'ar Ba'alei Chayim

Places mentioned

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
"Lucy the elephant to pick up a paintbrush with her trunk, swing over to a nearby sheet of canvas, and dab some color on. The sequence gets repeated a few times and voila, elephant art. Lucy's unique paintings were sold to raise funds for the zoo, where the elephant's been the city-owned zoo's star attraction for nearly half a century."
Ontario, Canada
"especially not the African lion safari in Ontario near Hamilton."
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
"I went to the African Lion Safari. I grew up in Hamilton and that was close, so I went there."
Quebec, Canada
"Huntsville, so not that far away, that every spring they would sit around, the owners and the staff that worked there, they would sit around and decide which animal, which dog was going to live and which dog was going to die."
Buenos Aires, Argentina
"What they need to do and the example that we showed is what's going on in Buenos Aires in Argentina. It was brilliant. They're using robotics and animation to teach children about wild animals, which is what they do when teaching them about dinosaurs."
Alaska, United States
"the iconic Iditarod race in Alaska"
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