NEWS ZOO (AP) Elephant stunt canceled Taiwan

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The Associated Press February 16, 2007 3:54 PM

 

Park won't lift elephant with human hair

 

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- A Taiwanese theme park has dropped a plan to

use a cable made of 320,000 human hairs to lift an elephant, a report

said Friday. The United Daily News said the theme park made the

decision after critics said the act could scare the animal.

 

The Naughty Boy Theme Park had planned to attach the cable to a

crane and use it to lift a 6-ton elephant to mark the opening of a

wildlife zoo, the newspaper said.

 

It said thousands of students had spent months braiding the hair

into a cable.

 

Instead of an elephant, the park will lift 6 tons of wood and

rocks, it said.

 

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NOTE:

 

Human hair, braided or unbraided, is often attached by

nature to wood & rocks.

 

 

 

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