Posted
8/13/2007 05:11:00 PM
by Douglas
Zoos are prisons where the inmates get peanuts instead of menthols. Rest in Peace,
Tanzy.A stressed-out elephant that had been treated with Xanax died Monday morning at age 49, zoo officials said.
Tanzy was believed to have been the second oldest African elephant in North America. An elephant's average lifespan is 33 years, according to Abilene Zoo officials.
In 2005 after zookeepers noticed that Tanzy was grumpy and subdued, they started mixing the anti-anxiety drug Xanax into her feed twice a day, along with some ibuprofen to ease her arthritis-related discomfort.
Would this poor creature have lived so many years on the Serengeti? Of course not, but she wouldn't have had to live in fucking Abilene, either, so spare me the
quality of life argument on this one. I've
been to Abilene. So have
others, apparently.
No one wants to go to Abilene. Tanzy didn't want to go to Abilene, either.