CHILDREN & ANIMALS

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.

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Rod Coronado caught in Arizona

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.

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COURT CALENDAR

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.

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Zoos & Aquariums

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.

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Birds

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.

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LETTERS [Nov. 1994]

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

IFAW defends The Body Shop
Your October article about The Body
Shop wrongly asserts that following recent
critical publicity, the International Fund for
Animal Welfare does not wish to be associated
with Body Shop International.
In fact we have reviewed the recent
publicity and have found nothing within it to
concern us about The Body Shop’s opposition
to animal testing. Criticisms of the five-year
criteria operated by The Body Shop and others
are well known to us, but have not persuaded
us from viewing it as an effective means of
increasing the pressure to end animal testing
for cosmetic products and especially cosmetics
ingredients.

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Editorial: The fallacy of “progressive” legislation

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

Animal and habitat protection advocates breathed relief on October 7 as Russia
withdrew an objection to the May 1994 creation of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary by
the International Whaling Commission. Under IWC rules, the objection meant that Russia,
already holding an objection to the whaling moratorium in effect since 1986, could have
gone whaling at any time––within the sanctuary. Despite the instant claim of Greenpeace
and the International Fund for Animal Welfare that the latest Russian turnabout was all their
doing, the full story behind the reversals may take years to emerge. Yet somehow the ele-
ments in Russian politics who seek good trade relations with the rest of the world did tri-
umph over those who would prefer a return to the stagnant but secure isolation of the Cold
War. Ultimately, the threat of private boycotts carried more weight in Moscow than the
certainty of escaping trade sanctions through the loophole in the IWC treaty.

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ANIMAL HEALTH

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

British link veal and brain damage
Rejected by most veterinary authorities, the hypothesis
advanced by Cornell veterinary student Michael Greger via Farm
Sanctuary that there may be a link between bovine spongiform
encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease gained slightly
more weight on October 7 when the United Kingdom CJD
Surveillance Unit reported that, “A study of the eating habits of
people with CJD showed some statistical associations with the eat-
ing of various meat products, particularly veal.” Veal calves are
fed milk replacers which contain processed slaughterhouse offal,
and therefore could sometimes contain the remains of animals who
had either BSE or scrapie, a similar disease found in sheep. CJD
appears some years after infection, and like BSE, leads to paraly-
sis, blindness, dementia, and death. An ongoing BSE epidemic,
now waning, has hit more than 130,000 cattle in Britain since
1986. CJD is comparatively rare, killing 40-50 Britons a year.

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Performing animals

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.

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