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A small city in Southern California recently became the first

municipality in the U.S. to recognize the legal rights of a non-human animal.

The O High City Council voted four to one last month to give elephants the right to bodily

liberty.

Quote, the City Council intends to adopt an ordinance to codify elephants fundamental

right to bodily liberty, thereby prohibiting the keeping of elephants in captive settings

that deprive them of their autonomy and ability to engage in their innate behaviors.

You might be wondering what motivated this first of its kind ordinance is there an elephant

being unjustly held captive within city limits?

Not exactly.

The non-human rights project explains in a press release that there used to be a captive

elephant named Tara that lived in the O High Valley and was used for entertainment.

This was the 1980s and people could still be entertained by a roller skating elephant.

But Tara is no longer with us, so this ordinance was passed to make sure no other elephant

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