Zoos are struggling as the sentiment against captive animals increases. Some are turning the zoos into information centres without animals.
I mean we can only hope that in the absence of Zoos we maybe gain something better like an accessible way to see animals in their natural habitats.
Sure you’d not get to witness animals from more foreign climates close to home, but honestly I’m fine with that.
There are certain otherwise extinct species that only still exist because of zoos, for profit zoos should not exist for sure but just as many are dedicated to conservation and the rate of species decline is going up daily. Zoos that focus on conservation have been responsible for re-introuding a few species back to the wild and I for one would like to see that continue. We only have Califonia Condors today because of the conservation efforts of the San Diego zoo for example.
https://exploringanimals.com/animal-species-that-only-exist-in-captivity/
yeah this does not make a lot of sense to me. We are not really recovering natural spaces for them to live.
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If I were the last human, I would rather die than be kept captive and on display by aliens.
See how you’re taking your own preference and assuming that for other creatures?
See how you’re taking your own preference and assuming that for other creatures?
Back at you supporting zoos.
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That’s pretty rhetoric, but what does ‘freedom’ actually mean here? Does a cockroach care that it’s in a 100 gallon glass tank or a dumpster in a city? It’s easy to espouse ‘freedom’ but are you really suggesting feral cats are living better, happier lives than housecats?
As you point out, even theoretically intelligent humans are perfectly happy to throw ‘freedom’ out the window for all kinds of reasons. This black and white attitude is just naive.
Do you own any pets? What are your thoughts on keeping them inside your dwelling for your amusement?
It’s not amusement. It’s company. They become part of the family and are treated as such. It’s far from the treatment animals get in zoos and they’re fam from being wild animals, too. As someone else pointed out, these are domesticated animals.
Keeping animals that have been bred into domestication over thousands of years is different than catching a wild animal and putting it in an enclosure. Corgies don’t wish they were out in the wild hunting deer, they want people to pet them. Tigers don’t want to be pet no matter how nice the magicians are.
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“removed snark” - still full of it.
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I really don’t like when people use autism as an excuse for shitty behavior, or as a pejorative. It’s getting really old really fast and it’s unfair to people who actually are autistic.
Please, don’t use that word like that again.
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If that’s true, I’m sorry this happened to you.
But allow me to have some doubts about the veracity of your statement, especially since your account is only 6 days old and any anonymous stranger can say anything about themselves on the internet.
And wether you are autistic or not or if it affects you or not, using autism pejoratively like this is a trend that needs to end. (Like calling someone/something gay as a pejorative before.) I was only asking nicely to please not use it as a pejorative again. But that’s all up to you.
They are enjoy mutually exclusive my guy. Don’t blame it on the autism.
We really are in the worst timeline.
