CHILDREN & ANIMALS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

University of New Hampshire soci-

ologist David Finkelhor reported in the

October issue of Pediatrics that a telephone

survey of 2,000 children aged 10-16 had dis-

covered 15.6% were assault victims within the

previous year, triple the 5.2% reported by the

1991 National Crime Survey; 0.5% had been

raped, five times higher than the NCS esti-

mate of 0.1%; and 75% of the attacks were by

other youths, including 41% of the sexual

assaults. From 30% to 40% of the victims had

never reported the assaults, Finkelhor said.

Rod Coronado caught in Arizona

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

TUCSON, Arizona–– Rod Coronado,

28, indicted by a federal grand jury in connection

with an alleged Animal Liberation Front arson at

Michigan State University in 1992, was arrested

September 28 by the FBI on the Pasqua Yaqui

Reservation, south of Tucson, Arizona. Living

under the name Martin Rubio, he was lured out-

doors by an informer who asked him to help with

an injured bird.

Of mixed Yaqui and Mexican ancestry,

Coronado served the reservation as a social worker,

and was highly praised by tribal vice president

Anselmo Valencia, whose home he shared, for his

work with children. Valencia unsuccessfully

offered to pledge his own salary as bond for

Coronado’s release.

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

Collector cases

A 32-year-old man from Barrie,

Ontario, drew five years in prison on October 5

for three counts of sexual abuse and one of

obstructing justice, while his female companion,

33, drew two years for obstructing justice. In

November 1991 the pair locked the woman’s four

girls and a boy in a feces-filled basement for 18

months, along with 19 cats and four dogs, after

police visited the home to question the man about

allegedly anally raping the two oldest girls, then

nine and 10. The children were discovered, res-

cued, and placed in foster care in April 1993.

Zoos & Aquariums

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

Ivan, the gorilla kept for 30 years in solitary con-

finement at a now defunct shopping mall in Tacoma,

Washington, was moved on October 10 to Zoo Atlanta, where

he will share a $4.5 million facility with 20 other gorillas

including Willie B., a gorilla who spent 27 years in isolation

but has adapted well to life with a family group. Ivan will

spend 90 days in a separate suite, viewing the other gorillas

through a window, before being introduced in person to any.

The onset of winter threatened to kill a manatee

who somehow meandered into Chesapeake Bay, 1,000 miles

north of his usual habitat, but a 15-member team from Sea

World in Orlando, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the

National Aquarium, the Maryland Department of Natural

Resources, and the Save the Manatee Club on October 1 cap-

tured him and took him to the National Aquarium, pending

transfer to Sea World and eventual release.

Birds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

Three years after spotted owl protection took

effect, Oregon is not economically wrecked but booming,

with its lowest unemployment rate in 30 years. The loss of

15,000 forest products jobs has been offset by the creation of

20,000 jobs in high technology. Of the displaced wood work-

ers who have been retrained at Lane Community College in

Springfield, 90% have new jobs, at an average hourly wage of

$9.02––only $1.00 less per hour than their old average, and

sure to rise as they gain seniority.

Oxford University zoologist Marion Petrie reported

on October 13 that a study of peafowl at the Whipsnade animal

park, north of London, found that the peacocks with the

largest fantails produced the biggest young––which may be

why the peahens are most attracted to those peacocks.

Performing animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus is reportedly close to

purchasing a 200-acre site northeast of Polk City, Florida, as a retirement colony for 50

elephants and possibly several lions and tigers who were retired from performing with the

retirement of longtime trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams in 1991. Ringling already owns a

35-acre animal retirement site elsewhere in Levy County. In other Ringling news, the

circus is splitting two new touring units off from the two that visit 95 U.S. cities a

year––one to tour South America, the other to tour Asia. The new units will be the first

Ringling shows to perform under tents since 1956, when the U.S. units turned to indoor

arenas.

The 1,100-mile Iditarod sled dog race lost yet another major sponsor on

September 25 when Timberland, a primary backer since 1987, announced it would cease

annual funding of about $390,000 because the association didn’t “translate well” to many

customers. Iams pulled out on September 13.

Dirty pool (Part I of a two-part investigative series)

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

ORLANDO, NEW YORK CITY,

MYSTIC––Activists don’t believe anything

they hear from the “aquaprison industry.”

Oceanarium people don’t trust activists to

know truth when they see it. And small won-

der on either side, given the pitch of the pro-

paganda for and against keeping marine mam-

mals in captivity.

This debate differs from the equally

bitter conflicts over hunting, trapping, meat-

eating, and the use of animals in biomedical

research. Knowingly or not, the antagonists

in the oceanarium debate express smilar

visions of what oceanariums should be––and

issue many of the same criticisms of what

they are. They agree that saving marine

mammals is among the urgent moral and eco-

logical priorities of our time. Their only sub-

stantive disagreements concern the morality

of capturing marine mammals from the wild,

a practice now largely but not totally history,

and the ethics of putting them on display.

Horses

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

Premarin maker on defensive

BRANDON, Manitoba––Wyeth-Ayerst is

worried about consumer response to the disclosure by

the Farm Animal Concerns Trust and ANIMAL

PEOPLE in early 1993 that its top-selling drug, the

estrogen supplement Premarin, comes from pregnant

mares’ urine, or PMU; that the great majority of the

75,000-plus foals born to the mares each year are sold

to slaughter; and that vegetable-based alternatives are

readily available. Premarin is now under boycott by

most major animal protection groups.

Wyeth-Ayerst now answers letters of protest

with copies of a report entitled Care and Management

of Horses at PMU Production Facilities, by consul-

tant Shauna Spurlock, DVM, who argues that the

ranchers, “place their foals as they always have. The

type of foals produced run the gambit from purebred

thoroughbred foals intended for the race track, to

quarter horse foals destined for the show ring, to draft

foals that may be used for light recreational work.

Out of the flooding and into the fire in Houston

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

HOUSTON––Flood rescue in

southeastern Texas from Houston to

Beaumont was expected to become oil spill

rescue in late October along a 24-mile

stretch of the San Jacinto River and possibly

in marshes flanking the Houston Ship Canal.

As ANIMAL PEOPLE went to press,

Texaco crews were still trying to stop leaks

in a pipeline containing 2.1 million gallons

of crude oil between valve stations––the last

of five major pipelines that broke under the

floodwaters. Two gasoline lines burst

together on October 20 and erupted into

flames, injuring 69 people and nearly incin-

erating a Houston SPCA rescue team

including Nick Gilman, disaster coordinator

for the American Humane Association.

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