January 17, 2005 - 20:47 AMT
INDIAN CHILDREN PROTEST AGAINST SENDING SHE-ELEPHANT VEDA TO ARMENIA
"We do not want our beloved Veda to be sent to Armenia, where the temperature in winter reaches -14C", dozens of children are shouting in the streets of the Indian town of Bangavor, RFE/RL reports. The action was arranged by "People in Defense of Animals" organization. Elephant Grant living in the Yerevan zoo has no luck in getting a bride. She-elephant Komala, which was to be brought last year, was poisoned and died, now children do not want to let a new bride go.