Legion Troll
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Discuss.
Should keeping animals in zoos be banned?
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You should be kept in a zoo, as food for the lions.
Legion Troll
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A lot of animals in our Alaskan zoo are protected species, which I approve zoos having so as to not have them go extinct or animals that are unable to be returned to the wild for various reasons, these are animals I approve being displayed in zoos, but healthy animals caught just to be displayed, I don't support it.
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A BUDDHIST TEMPLE ZOO DID THIS
orty dead tiger cubs were found Wednesday in a freezer at a Buddhist temple that operated as an admission-charging zoo, a national parks official said.
The discovery happened while authorities were removing mostly full-grown live tigers from the temple in western Kanchanaburi province following accusations that monks were involved in illegal breeding and trafficking of the animals.
The cubs were found in a freezer where the temple staff kept food, said Anusorn Noochdumrong, an official from the Department of National Parks who has been overseeing the transfer of the temple's 137 tigers to shelters. Since Monday, 60 have been tranquilized and removed.
"We don't know why the temple decided to keep these cubs in the freezer," Anusorn said. "We will collect these carcasses for DNA analysis."
The cubs appeared to be up to a week old, he said. Authorities plan to file charges against the temple for illegally possessing endangered species, he said.
The temple's Facebook page said in March that the temple's former vet had decided in 2010 to stop cremating cubs that died soon after birth. Calls to the temple's office were not answered.
The temple, a popular tourist attraction, has been criticized by animal rights activists because of allegations it is not properly set up to care for the animals and flouted regulations restricting the trade of tigers.
The monks resisted previous efforts to take away the tigers, but relented this week after police obtained a court order.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-tiger-cubs-freezer-thai-temple-20160601-story.html
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Barbara Smuts, a renowned primatologist at the University of Michigan, recently distributed a petition asking that the other gorillas at the Cincinnati Zoo be relocated to a sanctuary far from the ogling, screeching crowds of their clothed relations.
Researchers also disagree on whether we should continue breeding apes in captivity, and if so, to what end.
Others deride most zoos as little more than amusement parks with educational placards that few people bother to read.
“There’s no good evidence that captive apes are having any positive effect on their wild relatives,” said Marc Bekoff, a behavioral ecologist and professor emeritus at the University of Colorado.
Peter Singer, a bioethicist at Princeton University, said, “Our primary concern ought to be the well-being of gorillas, but zoos are constructed the other way around: The primary concern is that humans can see the gorillas.”
Innate curiosity, researchers suggest, may explain some of Harambe’s behavior seen on the video of his fatal encounter with the boy who fell into his enclosure. He tried pulling the boy into a grotto, perhaps to protect him or to claim the fascinating new playmate for himself.
But with the mounting commotion and screams from the onlookers above, researchers said, Harambe grew agitated and soon assumed the stance of a male silverback in dominance display mode.
“It’s what we used to call strutting, and male gorillas do it all the time,” Dr. Watts said. “A silverback will stand or walk around with arms and legs stiffly extended, his hair piloerect, to make himself look bigger and more impressive. Harambe was definitely doing that when he was standing over the boy.”
The behavior is mostly bluster: If Harambe had been intent on killing the boy, Dr. Hrdy said, as an interloping male gorilla might kill the babies sired by the silverback he just deposed — the quicker to claim the resident females for himself — “he would have done it in seconds,” probably with a stereotypical bite to the skull.
Nevertheless, the strut introduced risks of its own, particularly when Harambe began dragging the boy around the enclosure, as a displaying gorilla will sometimes drag around a large branch.
Dr. Watts, who said he had been “punched, knocked over and dragged” by male gorillas but never seriously injured, wishes he had been at the Cincinnati Zoo as the crisis unfolded. He would have volunteered to enter the enclosure.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/science/gorilla-shot-harambe-zoo.html?_r=0
Researchers also disagree on whether we should continue breeding apes in captivity, and if so, to what end.
Others deride most zoos as little more than amusement parks with educational placards that few people bother to read.
“There’s no good evidence that captive apes are having any positive effect on their wild relatives,” said Marc Bekoff, a behavioral ecologist and professor emeritus at the University of Colorado.
Peter Singer, a bioethicist at Princeton University, said, “Our primary concern ought to be the well-being of gorillas, but zoos are constructed the other way around: The primary concern is that humans can see the gorillas.”
Innate curiosity, researchers suggest, may explain some of Harambe’s behavior seen on the video of his fatal encounter with the boy who fell into his enclosure. He tried pulling the boy into a grotto, perhaps to protect him or to claim the fascinating new playmate for himself.
But with the mounting commotion and screams from the onlookers above, researchers said, Harambe grew agitated and soon assumed the stance of a male silverback in dominance display mode.
“It’s what we used to call strutting, and male gorillas do it all the time,” Dr. Watts said. “A silverback will stand or walk around with arms and legs stiffly extended, his hair piloerect, to make himself look bigger and more impressive. Harambe was definitely doing that when he was standing over the boy.”
The behavior is mostly bluster: If Harambe had been intent on killing the boy, Dr. Hrdy said, as an interloping male gorilla might kill the babies sired by the silverback he just deposed — the quicker to claim the resident females for himself — “he would have done it in seconds,” probably with a stereotypical bite to the skull.
Nevertheless, the strut introduced risks of its own, particularly when Harambe began dragging the boy around the enclosure, as a displaying gorilla will sometimes drag around a large branch.
Dr. Watts, who said he had been “punched, knocked over and dragged” by male gorillas but never seriously injured, wishes he had been at the Cincinnati Zoo as the crisis unfolded. He would have volunteered to enter the enclosure.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/science/gorilla-shot-harambe-zoo.html?_r=0
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Hundreds of Salt Lake City zoo visitors took shelter inside buildings Tuesday morning after a rare leopard escaped and fell asleep on a beam just above where visitors would have gathered to watch her.
A visitor spotted the 4-year-old female snoozing on the outdoor beam about two feet from the exhibit, said Hogle Zoo spokeswoman Erica Hansen. She told a zookeeper who raised the alarm.
An emergency team tranquilized the Amur leopard, packed her into a crate and took her to a holding area.
No one was hurt and the leopard named Zeya is expected to be fine after the tranquilizer wears off, said Nancy Carpenter, associate director of animal health at the zoo. The animal instinctually hung onto the beam after the tranquilizer dart struck, leaving visible claw marks on the wooden beam.
She eventually fell the final three feet to the ground and landed in a garden area between the visitor fence and her mesh enclosure.
Hansen said they don't yet know how or when the leopard managed to get through the tall steel-grade mesh that surrounds the top and sides of her enclosure, but officials are investigating.
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/us/leopard-escapes-at-utah-zoo-visitors-take-shelter/nrb59/
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Pharaoh, let my people go!
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A zoo animal took a flying leap at a spectator only to be repulsed by a sheet of glass.
Sound familiar? Last week, it was a lion pouncing at a child standing against the glass at Japan's Chiba Zoological Park. This time, it was a white tiger and a grown-up.
The clip, posted to YouTube, screams photo-op — at the expense of the frustrated tiger.
it's only natural for big cats to see humans as prey.
What isn't natural for these cats, of course, is being repelled by a seemingly invisible glass wall. In fact, there's nothing natural about a big cat in captivity.
Having humans treating them like thrill rides at an amusement park can only deepen an animal's despair. Yet we see it happen again and again.
https://www.thedodo.com/tiger-zoo-pounces-woman-1845413316.html