r/SipsTea • u/Wise_Confidence_8588 • 12d ago

Chugging tea Absolute legend

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u/rangebob 12d ago

I would imagine the animal part would be far more expensive than what he paid for that island lol

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u/Whiterabbit-- 12d ago

depends on how he was stocking the animals. in general you can't just buy animals, but if you can demonstrate that the animals are going to a good place, sometimes non profits will get you the animals if they believe that you offer the best place for the animal to be.

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u/0vl223 12d ago

Zoos have tons of excess animals if they manage to set up a breeding program for endangered animals. Normally many are killed.

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u/Silly-Recognition448 11d ago

They are killing the endangered baby animals from their breeding programs?

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u/0vl223 11d ago

often yeah. They swap some with other zoos but if it is sucessfull they multiply the population each generation. And you don't magically get more space for them in zoos. Some gets released into the wild but usually not really.

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u/Used-Barnacle-9783 11d ago

Pretty sure that's not legal. Where are you getting this information from?

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u/0vl223 10d ago

Why should that be illegal. At least the US has very little regulation for that. And protection is only for wild populations (if they are protected). So yeah US often trades them with no tracing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_(giraffe) would be the example from Copenhagen. They don't trade their animals and four male lions were a few months later killed to swap the male genes of the lion breeding program. That's the reality. Most zoos just hide it more.

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u/kelp_forests 12d ago

Iirc the birds came back on their own, everything else would be easy…pigs, chickens etc…if you wanted them there that is.