AR-News: (US CA) Baby elephant won't be at local circus

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By K.C. Meadows/The Daily Journal  
Carson & Barnes Circus says a clerical error resulted in the company  
advertising its 5-year-old baby elephant, "Jennie," in stories sent to area  media in 
advance of its Sunday shows in Willits.  
Jennie died in April.  
In a promotional press release carried in both The Willits News and The Daily 
 Journal, Carson & Barnes says, "Jennie, the ... baby elephant who performs  
in the center, is very special as she is the first live birth from the (Carson 
 & Barnes) breeding program."  
The Asian elephant's death was brought to the attention of the two newspapers 
 when People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protested the circus's  
performance in Willits because it believes the company should be investigated by  
the USDA for Jennie's death from a herpes virus that PETA attributes to the  
stress of being separated from her mother too early and being sent on the road 
 at just 16 months of age.  
PETA also alleges that "Carson & Barnes recklessly commingles Asian and  
African elephants -- even though African elephants carry the herpes virus in a  
dormant state and can pass it across species lines to nearby endangered Asian  
elephants, resulting in avoidable deaths." 
 
full  story:
_http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/Stories/0,1413,91~3089~2238102,00.html_ 
(http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/Stories/0,1413,91~3089~2238102,00.html)   





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