A young elephant attacked a handler at an?Australian zoo. I wish I knew what else happened, but much of the article is incomprehensible.
For example, we?re told that at ?the time of his birth in March 2010, the young male weighed 116 kilograms and one year later tipped the scales at just over 500kgs.? That?s great, but no one knows what a ?kilogram? even is. And ?kgs?? Come on, journalists ? write in English. How many pounds are we talking about here? I?m not a human unit converter. Is 500kgs a lot? Literally no one on Earth knows.
And what about the journalist?s duty to question the zoo staff for not seeing the obvious? ?The zoo said it doesn?t know what provoked the calf. ?It?s unknown at this time why the young elephant challenged the keeper.??
Unknown? We all know what caused this. The elephant has crazy eyes. He was doing bath salts.
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Scott Stein is editor of When Falls the Coliseum and author of the novels Lost and Mean Martin Manning. His short fiction, book reviews, and essays have been published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, The G.W. Review, Liberty, National Review, PopMatters.com, and Art Times. He is an associate teaching professor of English at Drexel University.
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