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MoonRiver

(36,926 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 10:26 AM Dec 2013

This is a disgrace. These animals do not deserve to be so badly neglected and harmed by the nation's, supposedly, premier zoo.

http://www.care2.com/causes/why-is-there-so-much-trouble-at-national-zoo.html

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Why is there so much trouble (especially broken necks) at the National Zoo? (Original Post) MoonRiver Dec 2013 OP

Inadequate funding and staffing LiberalEsto Dec 2013 #1

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1. Inadequate funding and staffing

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 10:36 AM

Dec 2013

according to an article in the Washington Post a few days ago.

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2. And yet the zoo can pour millions into the panda breeding program and elephant section.

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 10:39 AM

Dec 2013

Not that those animals don't deserve the attention, but others are suffering as a result of these funding decisions.