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Canned hunts target zoo animals
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some
of those furry creatures at Amer
ica’s zoos could end up decorat
ing the dens of people yvho pay
big money to bag trophies at
hunting ranches, the Humane
Society says.
Farms and ranches offering
what critics call “canned hunts'’
are springing up across the
country'. For zoos, circuses and
animal farms, the ranches can
provide a convenient and often
profitable way to dispose of sur
plus animals.
For hunters with the cash —
price lists quote $350 for a
pygmy goat and up to $20,000
for a rhinoceros, the society says
— it’s a quick and easy way to
claim an exotic ornament.
It is illegal to bag a rhinocer
os in this country, and the group
says it does not have evidence
that rhinos or other endangered
animals have been killed in
canned hunts.
But hunters armed with
bows, high-powered rifles and
pistols pursue other prey, some
times in areas as large as hun
dreds of acres but other times in
enclosures as small as 25 square
feet. It’s virtually impossible for
the animals to escape, and most
operators guarantee a kill.
“Once the animal’s head is on
a wall, the hunter can make up
some story about traveling to
Africa or Asia,” said Humane So
ciety spokesman Wayne Pacelle.
Officials of the controlled-
hunt industry voice outrage at
“caged kills,’’ but they defend
hunts of exotic breeds on large,
open ranches.
“We’re a conservation organi
zation that recognizes that ethi
cal hunting, fair-chase hunting,
is an appropriate management
tool,” said Harvey Hilderbran,
head of Exotic Wildlife Associa
tion, a Texas-based trade group.
The association has some 400
members, about half of whom
are involved in this type of
caned hunting.
Michael Winikoff, a Humane
Society lawyer and investigator,
said hunt outfitters rely largely
on breeders for their game but
sometimes buy exotic animals
born at roadside attractions and
large zoos.
According to the society, ani
mals from zoos all across the
country, from California’s presti
gious San Diego Zoo to Washing
ton’s National Zoo, have gone to
hunting farms.
“The public is interested in
seeing cute little animals. Ani
mals don’t remain cute and little
very long,” said Patrick Martin,
a New York state biologist who
has followed animal trades.
“The zoos trade .animals; they
try to keep the exhibits fresh,
but there is always a surplus.”
For years, according to the
Humane Society, Busch Gardens
in Tampa Bay, Fla., has sold
gazelles, impalas, zebras and
other animals to people involved
in hunting.
Officially, the zoo abhors the
practice of canned hunts.
But Busch Gardens executive
Gerald Lentz acknowledged that
some of its animals may have
ended up oil Texas hunting
ranches. He said that the zoo
was investigating.
The San Diego Zoo said that
several years ago it sold a couple
of Dybowski’s Sika deer to the
operator of a hunting ranch.
The animals, said zoo
spokesman Jeff Jouett, were re
covered unharmed several
months later after an animal-
rights group protested the sale.
A spokesman for the National
Zoo said some of its animals had
ended up on a hunting ranch in
the early ’90s but were part of a
breeding herd, and the rancher
assured the zoo they would not
be hunted.
“Current policy is never to
send animals to those places,”
said spokesman Bob Hoage.
The zoo industry’s sanction
ing body, the American Zoo and
Aquarium Association, encour
ages its member zoos to control
breeding and promotes euthana
sia as a final option.
The association said it de
plores canned hunts and called
the Humane Society’s claims
“careless, irresponsible and
defamatory.” It refused to re
lease a “letter of reprimand” is
sued to the San Diego Zoo in
1992 for its dealings in the hunt
ing trade.
Five percent of pregnant women use drugs
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 5 per
cent of the 4 million American women who
had babies in 1992 used illegal drugs while
pregnant, a government survey reports.
One fifth of the mothers-to-be smoked cig
arettes or drank alcohol during pregnancy,
according to a survey conducted for the Na
tional Institute on Drug Abuse.
Women who smoked and drank were
more likely to also have used drugs, accord
ing to the $3 million National Pregnancy
and Health Survey.
Alan I. Leshner, director of the National
Institute on Drug Abuse, said Monday the
correlation between abuse of legal and ille
gal drugs “has tremendous public health im
plications and reinforces the need for health
practitioners to continually monitor the sta
tus of smoking, drinking and ... drug use
during pregnancy.”
Overall the survey indicated that 820,000
women, or 20 percent, smoked cigarettes
during pregnancy, and 757,000, or 19 per
cent, used alcohol.
Leshner said, “There was a strong link
between cigarette smoking and alcohol use
and the use of illicit drugs.” Only six per
cent of those who never used drugs were
smokers or drinkers, while 32 percent of
those who used at least one drug either
smoked or drank.
The women curtailed their use of drugs
from three months prior to becoming preg
nant until they gave birth, but generally did
not go cold turkey.
That shows “how gripping an illness drug
addiction can be, even in the face of what
may seem to many to be the ultimate incen
tive to stay drug-free,” Leshner said.
The report was based on 2,613 women
who delivered babies at 52 hospitals across
the country. These women were surveyed
by Westat, Inc., between October 1992 and
August 1993.
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