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Zoo's adoption scheme raises questions

A related Express Tribune page points to Lahore Zoo and animal welfare; at India's Chhatbir zoo, an elephant's adoption was reported at twenty-three thousand nine hundred rupees monthly.

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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA zoo's animal adoption scheme is causing trouble, according to The Express Tribune, with concerns raised about Lahore Zoo and animal welfare.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAdoption schemes are common at zoos.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAt Chhatbir zoo in India, The Tribune reported that an elephant cost twenty-three thousand nine hundred rupees a month, and a dove cost fifty.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFifty rupees for a dove. That's a subscription price.

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorChhatbir officials also said some people adopted deer on astrologers' advice, to ward off the ill-effects of certain planets.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the deer is doing Mercury's job. Underpaid, as usual.

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have seen worse arrangements with a goat in Mongolia.

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