http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/07/it-is-too-hot-for-african-elephants-in-canada/ Keeping You Current Sun, 19 May 2013 12:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/07/it-is-too-hot-for-african-elephants-in-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-243 WK Lindsay Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:35:46 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=1556#comment-243 I agree that this article seems to have been dashed off to meet a deadline, rather than bothering with any follow up on primary sources or even reading properly the sources quoted. The CBC did not say that Canada in summer is too hot for African elephants, they said that it would be too hot for elephants to be confined in metal boxes for extended periods. The throwaway line about getting stuck in the hot tarmac suggests that the whole article is simply a joke, but not a very good one. It's more like the Smithsonian National Zoo, which puts plastic toys and Halloween pumpkin in animal enclosures and gives elephants harmonicas, than the Smithsonian Institution, which is supposed to be about science. I agree that this article seems to have been dashed off to meet a deadline, rather than bothering with any follow up on primary sources or even reading properly the sources quoted. The CBC did not say that Canada in summer is too hot for African elephants, they said that it would be too hot for elephants to be confined in metal boxes for extended periods. The throwaway line about getting stuck in the hot tarmac suggests that the whole article is simply a joke, but not a very good one. It’s more like the Smithsonian National Zoo, which puts plastic toys and Halloween pumpkin in animal enclosures and gives elephants harmonicas, than the Smithsonian Institution, which is supposed to be about science.

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/07/it-is-too-hot-for-african-elephants-in-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-222 Pet Peeves Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:32:06 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=1556#comment-222 Who in heaven's name wrote this? You have not cited the type of plane that got stuck vs the type being used for the elephants; you have not cited the type of material used in each runway; or if the same "stickiness" has happened at the airport to be used in Canada. This article is completely beneath the stature of the Smithsonian. Who in heaven’s name wrote this? You have not cited the type of plane that got stuck vs the type being used for the elephants; you have not cited the type of material used in each runway; or if the same “stickiness” has happened at the airport to be used in Canada. This article is completely beneath the stature of the Smithsonian.

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