http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stor...+at+Chicago+zoo


CHICAGO (AP) -- The oldest African elephant in the United States has died at the Lincoln Park Zoo at the age of 55, officials said Tuesday.

Zoo keepers found the 9,000-pound female elephant named Peaches sprawled on the floor of an indoor enclosure early Monday. The elephant's eyes weren't focused and she was having trouble breathing, according to a statement from the zoo.

After spending several hours unsuccessfully trying to get Peaches back on her feet, veterinarians euthanized her Monday evening, zoo officials said.

The zoo said she most likely died from complications due to old age, but tests were being done to pinpoint a cause of death.

"The entire staff is saddened by the death of Peaches," zoo curator Robyn Barbiers said in a written statement. "Everyone at the zoo, particularly our dedicated team of elephant keepers, will miss her terribly."

Zoo officials said Peaches had been in reasonably good health, but because of her age they weren't surprised when they found her ailing Monday.

Peaches lived more than a decade longer than she might have been expected to live in the wild, zoo spokeswoman Kelly McGrath said. She said the median life expectancy for African elephants in the wild is thought to be around 42.

The zoo acquired Peaches and two other African elephants, Tatima and Wanki, from the San Diego Zoo in 2003 for the zoo's new Regenstein African Journey exhibit.

At the time, the animal rights group People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals criticized the transfer of the elephants from warm California, arguing that the climate in Chicago was too cold.

McGrath said then that the Lincoln Park Zoo never would have acquired the elephants if it thought there was any risk to the animals. She said Tuesday that weather played no role in Peaches' death, saying the elephant was kept in a heated building for the winter.

Tatima, who was 35, died in October, leaving only Wanki as the sole African elephant left at the zoo, McGrath said.

Officials are now considering whether to send Wanki to another zoo or to acquire new African elephants to bring to the Chicago zoo, McGrath said.

"Elephants are extremely social animals and Wanki cannot remain alone for too long," she said.


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Poor peaches, I remember I was at the zoo and some little brat through a stick at her cuzz she wasnt moving around much. (I think it was her....looked old and didnt have a huge elephant cock)

:(

"And the most fucked up, misleading thread title of the week award goes to..."

Damn that was messed up lol. :zoinks:

Edit: Glad to see you're still kicking peaches lol

This thread really needs to retitled an elephant named Peaches died at the age of 55.

I've been on the boards for many years now and have read about far too many people that I know dying. :(

Well, I'm kinda hoping people know I'm not 55 :unsure:

Yeah, I was pretty sure you weren't :nyanya:

I need the sig views.

I was wondering what your secret had been.

Then I clicked on the thread.

I only know of two webmasters that actually died.

Oh and one that went to jail for murdering an old dude that ran a bike shop

I wasn't fooled! Now if it had said Peaches dead at 29 ...

Whatever happened to a certain former hosting owner that was going to shoot you or Ant backwhen? :ph34r:

I wasn't fooled! Now if it had said Peaches dead at 29 ...

Whatever happened to a certain former hosting owner that was going to shoot you or Ant backwhen? :ph34r: [/b][/quote]
Tom at National Net.

That guy was out there!!!!!

Totally insane.For real.

Parts of the Story you haven't heard....

So I get him up to Canada for an interview.I'm like he is old school , I must have something he can do for me...

Well on the way in from the airport he reveals he hates "chinks". It went downhill from there..... as lets see the COO is of the Asian persuassion...

I mean this guy was ...out there.

As far as I know he just dissappeared.


What was the name of the murderer again.He was the guy Kaiser introduced to me who the told me "Yeah I'm a great techie and Kaiser says the one you have sucks."

I inform him our current tech is adequate , oh and he is my brother.

Oh Kaiser , a word please...

Kaiser of course denies ever saying a thing ....

Anthony was right , I should have canned that blue haired fuck then and there.I hardly saw him at the show anyway he had his lips fixed to the ass of FM.

And then poof....ANS

who was that?

did he get square wheels or something?

Fuck , I can't remeber the guys name...

Buit he tried to get a job with me.

I beleive he was ARS's Tech.

I have no idea why he killed the Bike Shop Owner , bUt I am sure it was some old dude that owned a bike shop that he killed.

Scott Baldwin

:ph34r:

"Tarbash"

Thats it!!!

Knew you'd remember!

:)

I scare myself sometimes. :rolleyes:

"Tarbash" [/b][/quote]
Is that the one Pattyecake was engaged to for a very short period of time? If not, then the one she WAS engaged to was a moron. She was working for CE and he was on a CE message board hitting on chicks like PC wouldn't know, lol!

I THINK it's the same guy though.

Without question my favorite Tom Blanchard story is the one where JoeE was going to fly him to Vegas for a show. Words got exchanged where no one wanted him there and either Joe pulled the offer or Tom refused it. Tom went on and on about how bad it was he wasn't going because he had told his mental wife they were going to Italy (Venetian) and she was so disappointed. Oy. :blink:

I was driving back from A golf game up near Whistler...so I checked in with ,Anthony to see how the office was going and he said something like this..

""I've booked us up for dinner at Carderos:
We've got a wire in from so ands so :
I sent the receptionist home she has flu.:
We gotta see the lawyers friday ...oh and Tom at National net has a gun and is going to fly up to Vancouver to kill me either this evening or tomorrow morning.""

of course I start pissing myself laughing and making remarks like "Fuck Cardero's , tell the boys we go to the mattresses"

LOL

Or I may have said "Fuck that shit , lets find him first , fucking prick threatens us"

;-)))

But I remember Anthony's nonchalant report....


sorta like "normal day"

unbelievably looney that guy was...


ahahahahaha I remember now..I said "Don't worry he hasn't the price of the airfare" LOL

I was wondering what your secret had been.

Then I clicked on the thread. [/b][/quote]
Me too! :o

I'm thinking DAY-UM she aged very very well - and here I thought she'd been a very young mother when she had CT.

Sorry about the elephant... but glad to know we still have OUR beloved Peaches!

:rokk:

Would this really have differentiated the two?



muahahhaahahaha!





...


Im sorry :(

Would this really have differentiated the two?



muahahhaahahaha!





...


Im sorry :( [/b][/quote]
Oh, that'll cost you!! :grrr:

I realize who/what we're talking about here - but how could anyone (even the New Jersey speed bump) have said that Technick sucks? He's one of the fastest - if not THE fastest techies I've ever worked with... as you've said, is always available 24/7 if there are issues, questions or things to be worked out... honestly, he's the most dedicated tech I've met. Not only did he always get the job done - but he always took it one step further and did it even BETTER than what we asked for - more thorough and useful, etc. etc...

Going back to that year I saw Meat in the casino @ the Venetian when he was trying to convince me to ditch the PB to attend the PHB because there were people there that I should talk to. Still thinking that those people had nothing new to tell me than what I already knew (stupid... naive... idiot!) I declined... I think that if I'd attended I could have been rid of the bastard myself about a year earlier... maybe saved some of my own gray hair and nerves...

Gotta love that 20/20 hindsight shit... *sigh*

:huh:

Would this really have differentiated the two?



muahahhaahahaha!





...


Im sorry :( [/b][/quote]
ahahahahahaahahaha awesome burn!~!!!!!! ahahahahahahahah



I'm sorry for enjoying that burn...but I love a good burn!!!


ahahahahahhahahaa


I'm very sorry. :(


ahahahahaha

Ok , I'll stop now....


;-))))

Fokkers!! :grrr:

I only tease people I like ;)

I only tease people I like ;) [/b][/quote]
Oh, that is SO not going to get you out of this. Well, it might.... Got some traffic you can send me? :P

I only tease people I like ;) [/b][/quote]
If that is the cae...

judging from Icqs you must be totally gay for me :)

Wow thanks Kath ... I dunno what to say :) I'm blushing now.

Maybe this is a good time to ask my brother about that raise....

Wow thanks Kath ... I dunno what to say :) I'm blushing now.

Maybe this is a good time to ask my brother about that raise.... [/b][/quote]
Technick ,

You can ALWAYS ask...

But as you know , a swift kick in the bollocks followed by a rant over what a programmer in the Punjab would cost me is usually the answer.

But sure , next time I see you , you can ask...


;-)))

Oh lord, a blast from the past. Tom from Nat Net. That guy was a looney motherfucker!

The conversation that morning was strange. Him telling us about how much his wife and he loved Church's chicken, and how they would step over a dead body to get to his chicken... It was fucked up.

There are some ppl in this world that should not breed.

I thought he said he HAD stepped over a dead guy to buy Church's Chicken.

Also didn't he used to be a cop?

I thought he said he HAD stepped over a dead guy to buy Church's Chicken.

Also didn't he used to be a cop? [/b][/quote]
I try not to remember that day me and Technick had to deal with him. He was not racist, he hated everyone equally.

I try not to remember that day me and Technick had to deal with him. He was not racist, he hated everyone equally. [/b][/quote]
I believe I couldn't bear to be in the same room as him....

Some good old school memories in this thread... :okthumb:

Glad to hear you're still among the living, Peaches. Too bad about the elephant.....

I'm loving this trip down memory lane....especially when it concerns certain speed bumps.

I met Tom the first time in the Ynot suite at Orlando. I thought he was a 'hoot, but not crazy. I don't think he could have built the business he did, if he had been crazy at that time. I don't know when he went over the edge, but it might have had something to do with his surgery & his wife's illness.

Actually my first server came from Tom, when Nat Net took over and bought all new equipment.

I knew you werent 5'5" aren't you more like 4'5"?

I knew you werent 5'5" aren't you more like 4'5"? [/b][/quote]
:grrr:

There are a lot of people earning a place on my shitlist in this thread!

Yeah I knew him years and years before , hence why I thought , "Good Guy"

He was always a lil frisky.

But by then he was really off the deep end.

I heard that Canada could do that to ya...... :blink:

I wasn't fooled! Now if it had said Peaches dead at 29 ... [/b][/quote]
ok dravyk, that's enough. that's 3 times in the last week you have taken almost the exact sentence out of my mouth :rolleyes:



seriously though, even though I know peaches isn't 55, i'm sure my heart just skipped a beat. I know you are a poor excuse for a human being steve grogan, but you never cease to amaze me with your inappropriateness :barfon: