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For immediate release:
October 20, 2021
Contact:
David Pearl 202-483-7382
Las Vegas – Today, on International Sloth Day, which was used to “meet” slow-moving mammals at the infamous SeaQuest petting zoo, recently released records show that a sloth named Flash died – just nine months after that. Other a sloth named Flash died under similar circumstances – in SeaQuest Las Vegas. PETA sent a letter to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) this morning requesting an investigation into the death of a second sloth and a letter to the Clark County Animal Authority asking them to reject any future requests from SeaQuest Las Vegas to acquire and own members of the species.
“When one sloth died at SeaQuest, the company just bought another, gave it the same name and let it share the same fate,” says Michelle Sinnott, deputy director of animal law enforcement at PETA. “SeaQuest treats sloths as swappable stock, and PETA wants federal and Clark County officials to crack down on this company before more sloths die there.”
The second Flash had been at SeaQuest Las Vegas for just five months before he died. An autopsy confirmed that he was deemed “minimally responsive on the floor” and that he “developed twitching” and lack of appetite – symptoms similar to those experienced by the first Flash, who died just seven months after his arrival at SeaQuest. And other sloths named The Flash got hurt on other SeaQuest sites across the country. At SeaQuest Littleton in Colorado, one Flash was severely burned by a heat lamp on two separate occasions, and at SeaQuest Woodbridge in New Jersey, reports surfaced that Flash had died there and was discreetly replaced by another. In Texas, the USDA cited SeaQuest Fort Worth for keeping the sloth in an unsuitable enclosure with plasterboard walls and rubber trim that peeled off, revealing “smudged and grimy” areas underneath the exhibit.
PETA, whose motto is in part that “the animals are not ours to be used for entertainment” – opposes arrogance, a worldview focused on human superiority. For more information on collecting news and reporting on PETA investigations, please visit PETA.org or subscribe to the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram…
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