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It’s time for Edmonton to vote for compassion
Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants Documentary
To learn more about Lucy and her life at the Edmonton Valley Zoo, watch Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants. This documentary was made by Fern Levitt, a Canadian film director. It has won the Audience Award for Favourite Canadian Feature at the Edmonton Film Festival this year. The film is anticipated to be on Netflix in the future.
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Fact vs. Myth
Fact
Lucy is middle aged. Elephants can live as long as people providing their living in appropriate conditions.
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The other elephant Lucy was housed with, Samantha was an African Elephant. Lucy is an Asian elephant. It is well known that these two species don't get along.
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Many elephants much older than Lucy have been successfully transported.​​The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee has a process of introducing new elephants to the herd that works! They have taken many lone elephants from solitary conditions who successfully joined the herd.
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Lucy was captured in Sri Lanka and taken from her herd. She was brokered out of the Pinnewala Elephant orphanage. They are notorious for capturing elephants from the wild and selling baby elephants to zoos and circuses.
Myth
Lucy is a geriatric elephant.
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Lucy doesn't get along with other elephants.
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She's too old to be moved.
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The Edmonton Valley Zoo claims to have rescued Lucy as an orphan