Owairaka 20/20

Kashin, the elephant at Auckland zoo was put down by vets yesterday. She has been suffering from foot abscesses and chronic arthiritis. She was 40 years old and had been at the zoo for 36 years. She had become depressed and withdrawn. We have some questions we are wondering about.

1. Is it cruel to keep animals like elephants in a zoo?
2. Was it right to put Kashin down?
3. How long do elephants live for in the wild and in captivity.

What do you think?

Have you got any questions about elephants you want to ask?

Here is a video of Mr Waller’s adventures with elephants when he was in Malaysia. People got to ride on elephants and to swim with them.

This video clip on Youtube is the best I could find about kiwis. It has interesting facts and figures about the kiwi’s plight. I cannot embed it into the blog but please do watch it from this link. It is well worth it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Be5XYhkEnI

Can anyone else find some better kiwi videos? The first twenty kiwi videos on youtube are not about the kiwi bird.

This is animated but Joanna loved it so much I have put it in.