Friday, September 5, 2008

Getting Clean

This story from Reuters explains how an elephant was controlled by poachers using heroin-laced bananas.
After police arrested the traders and freed Xiguang a few months later, the elephant was confirmed to be suffering from withdrawal symptoms and sent to a wild animal protection center in Hainan for rehab, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.

A year of methadone injections at five times the human dosage had helped wean Xiguang off his addiction.

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