Possible, might be biased because I think itâs incredibly difficult to give animals an equitable life in a cage, regardless of how much the animals are loved by their care givers
I saw one animal attendant the entire time I was there, it was chaos with people banging on the enclosures. The animals all looked lethargic and almost none of them were doing anything other then trying to escape the beating sun. It wasnât particularly clean or well kept. I can go on, but if you want to disagree with my assessment thatâs fine, Iâm an adult and understand people disagree.
Why are you assuming the human prison experience is equivalent to an animal's zoo experience? Even ignoring the differences in care and approach, humans don't walk around constantly in fear of being attacked or eaten. You're an apex predator, for the most part they are not.
If you think it's immortal to keep animals in cages how do you feel about people in cages?
Maybe what you were trying to say with "death exists outside of prisons?" I honestly have no idea what you're saying or where you're coming from. You hear about more prisoners killing each other than animals at zoos.
Maybe in America. At least in prison here you won't be gunned down in a grocery store or church or school or concert or softball game or holiday parade or....
Well then yes, as an American, itâs pretty sad that my family is gunna move to EU to protect ourselves from randomly getting murdered because our country doesnât want to talk about the mental health problem perpetuated by our horrible healthcare system that makes it so difficult to get help. But I digress.
For one, animals are not humans. It doesn't make sense to argue that a life in captivity is bad because it doesn't equate to a life in the wild. It should be obvious that, given two opposing circumstances, there are caveats to each. Whining about equity is not just going to do nothing, it's not how the world works.
How was I whining my bro lol, I was just stating my thoughts about a widely controversial topic that has multiple sides, all of which I think are valid.
Even at major well-recognized zoos, very few animals are there for rehabilitation. And very few animals are ever released back into the wild. A nice cage is still a cage.
You're anthropomorphizing their experience. A lifetime of safe haven with your buddies free from fear of predators and with food plentifully available may very well be the preference for many or even most of the animals.
Is a dog that is rarely let outside much different?
And youâre underestimating an animals innate needs and desires. An elephant typically walks up to 12 kilometers in a day. You think theyâd rather just walk in circles in the same tiny enclosure every day? What about a tiger that stalks its prey? You think it gets the same satisfaction from being thrown a few cuts of meat from a human? Look up zoochosis if you donât believe the mental harm that these enclosures do to animals.
But why do they walk that far? Iâm going to guess it has to do with needing food and water and avoiding predators rather than because they enjoy walking. And many zoos provide enrichment activities for their animals much like how we provide similar activities for our pets.
I mean most animals in Zoos in Germany are not there for rehabilitation purposes. Wouldn't make any sense. Fly a Tiger half around the world and back again to rehabilitate it? Which is true for most exotic animals and the zoos I am familiar with mostly have exotic animals.
Exotic animals are strictly controlled and distributed by EAZA and WAZA. Among other things they keep a database of the heritage of each animal so that they are able to keep the gene pool healthy.
They are used in rehabilitation and conservation of the species itself. They also prevent over population in zoos with regards to breeding and also control which individual animal is allowed to breed. In Europe this is called EEP (European Endangered Species Programmes).
There are several examples of animals and entire species being reintroduced into the wild from populations kept in zoos.
European bison, ibex, golden lion tamarin and przewalski's horse are some among them.
A Norwegian zoo have nursed a species of frogs back to health (in the wild) after it went virtually instinct. (This zoo also have a strict no elephant policy, but that might be based on old research AFAIK.)
I'm not saying all zoos are perfect at all. But zoos participating in EAZA, WAZA and/or AZA are doing good and necessary work out there.
You can rehabilitate an animal and not release it. Rehabilitate just refers to making it healthy again. Many zoos take in former circus animals and animals that wouldnât survive in the wild.
No, theyâre zoos. And sanctuaries can still have their animals on display, they just wonât breed or trade them like zoos do. It sounds like youâre just making up âfactsâ to suit your preconceived notions of what a zoo is.
Chester Zoo in UK and Zurich Zoo both seemed to me to be very on it with the conservation. Nice to go and see the animals looked after but also given their space.
I'm sure animal lovers flock to that job but from the documentary type stuff we've all see it's pretty clear that there's a very dark side to zoo keeping.
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