Giraffe’s Medical Records Sealed to Protect Its Privacy
from the um,-okay dept.
Lucy Spelman, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoo in Washington, has rejected a reporter’s request for the medical records of a recently deceased giraffe, Ryma, saying that to release the records would violate the dead animal’s right to privacy. Legal experts want to know what she’s been smoking, though it seems likely, given the circumstances, that she’d view that information as private, too.
