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douglas9

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Fri Dec 27, 2019, 02:38 PM Dec 2019

Judge Details Parade of Horrors at Maryland Zoo

BALTIMORE (CN) — Slamming the “fetid and dystopic conditions” of a Maryland zoo, a federal judge ordered Thursday that any animals that managed to survive must be transferred to a sanctuary.

U.S. District Judge Paul Xinis released his findings following a six-day bench trial in Baltimore between People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Tri-State Zoological Park of Western Maryland.

His 47-page opinion includes more than two dozen pictures of squalor, documented by PETA in a two-year undercover investigation.

“The uncontroverted testimony reflects that every animal at issue suffered under Tri-State’s living conditions,” Xinis wrote.

Among photos of dung-splattered cages and animal necropsies, Xinis noted, “Filth and feces dominate Tri-State.”

“Rotting vegetables spilled over large receptacles, decaying meat sat in piles outside the kitchen and in the furnace room under the nearby reptile house, and decomposing carcasses were left for days in the enclosures for the tigers and lions,” he added.

PETA contends that the conditions it uncovered beginning in 2014 are typical of many private parks. More formal inspections followed before the group filed suit in 2017 under the federal Endangered Species Act.

https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-details-parade-of-horrors-at-maryland-zoo/

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Judge Details Parade of Horrors at Maryland Zoo (Original Post) douglas9 Dec 2019 OP
The Tri-State Zoological Park is a 16-acre zoo located in Cumberland, Maryland, elleng Dec 2019 #1

elleng

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1. The Tri-State Zoological Park is a 16-acre zoo located in Cumberland, Maryland,
Fri Dec 27, 2019, 02:55 PM
Dec 2019

United States. The nonprofit zoo opened in 2003, and contains mainly exotic animals rescued or in need of homes, including lions, tigers, primates, various exotics, birds and reptiles. Wikipedia

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