jillio

You bad!

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Foxrac

I have mixed feeling about zoos, some are good, some are not good.

Birmingham Zoo is good that I had been.

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Foxrac

Second here, circus is full of junk.

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webexplorer

No! They should not be in their cage for rest of their life. I never forgot in the newspaper and TV news about one poor white pole bear. The pole bear broke a thick cage and got escaped. Then, the cop shot him without thinking twice.

Why? The bear's cage was so small since he was a baby in the same place and same size. The bear had a freedom for two hours outside to feel good himself before he was shot. In fact, the owner of the zoo refused to spend on a bigger cage because he was so cheap and greedy.

That's why I hate all zoos even some zoos are beautiful, but they do have many very dark side problems such mean employees and employees abuse them when the hours are closed.

Even, careless people are not even read the warning not to feed or make fun of them especially young teenagers. There is no law for this problem for many years except a death from lack of nourishments. Now, you see that the police broke the law that killed the bear that does not automatically charge him for a criminal because he is the police enforcement. What idiot he is!

Leave the wild animals alone in the nature. We have the internet to learn about it instead of looking at alive animals in the nasty cages. It is almost like when you stay in the hospital that you don't want to stay too long. Got it? It's the same problem for all circus.

Glenn

They aren't all in cages. At the Portland Zoo, polar bears swim, zebras and giraffe and hippos have their pens to roam, and birds have room to fly.

jillio

Same with the two I mentioned. In fact, the Columbus Zoo has a large area known as "The Wilds" that mimics natural habitiats of several animals. The only way to tour it is in a jeep.

Banjo

That's pretty cool. Kind of remind me of an attraction at Disney's Animal Kingdom.

jillio

Yeah, it is really cool. I took my 10 year old great neice a couple of week-ends ago. I like the regular zoo, too, but the jeep tour through the wilds was really cool. It didn't happen to us, but the zookeeper driving our jeep said sometimes a chimp will jump on the jeep and hang on for a ride!

Glenn

Oh, they have a place like that in Washington called Northwest Trek. I wouldn't even call it a zoo. It's got a lot of exhibits and a tour bus you can take rides on. I haven't been there for years, but it's nice.

Northwest Trek Wildlife Park

VamPyroX

Yes, it varies by zoo.

I've only been to one zoo, but from what I've seen... it looks very roomy compared to what I see in movies.

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webexplorer

Oh that biggest zoo that you mentioned... hmm, that would be alright. I guess.

I visited a zoo in Cincinnati, Ohio, and I didn't like it at all. The old zoo was in Springfield, Mass., and they transferred an elephant in Ohio. The same elephant that I visited there had no grass for her. She died in four years later because she was not happy with her new home, separated another elephant in a different place, and even no grasses anywhere on the cement in/outdoor floor at all plus her leg was chained. Whoa! That was too much stress for her like that. Please think about that situation. The old zoo in Springfield, Mass was a lot worst due poor sized cages for all wild animals. I'm so grateful that that zoo was shut down because the zoo owner, an old man, was finally dead and hopefully his body landed on the evil's home for good.

jillio

Yeah, that looks very similar. I wouldn't call it a zoo, exactly, either. But the one I was referring to is connected to the Columbus Zoo.

KristinaB

One of the best places for animals I have seem, but haven't been there for 20 years and now they have an amusement park, but it is the Lion Country Safari. A drive thru wildlife preserve.

Lion Country Safari - Florida's Only Drive Through Safari Adventure!

Then we have the Palm Beach Zoo at Dreher Park. I knew it at the Dreher Park Zoo, but times have moved on.

Palm Beach Zoo

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StSapphire

Er, what? I live in Cincinnati, and I've never seen a single animal "chained" anywhere in any manner at our zoo. The elephants and large animal (Giraffe, maybe one or two others which I don't remember) actually recently had their areas remodeled to be even larger than before, with more natural areas.

webexplorer

How long ago were you there? I may have a picture of the elephant. If I found it, then I would show it to you here.

KarissaMann05

I used to support Zoos until I realize the dark side so I am kinda of against zoos for some reasons. I feel zoos should have done better than crappy cages or something like that. Same for caretakers.

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StSapphire

Last time I was there was sometime last year.

DeafCaroline

I would like to see that photo.

jillio

Been visiting Cincy Zoo for more years than I care to mention and I have never seen anything of that nature either.

FireTiger

Jacksonville Zoo is awesome, one of the original forerunners in switching animals to having privacy if they wanted it and removing the concrete pits of yesteryear.

Where would we put all of these animals anyway? Natural habitat is gone or mostly gone... establish wild animals that know how to survive live in the wild areas already...

Pythias

Good zoos have two goals:

1. Conservation. Most zoos are active in breeding programs for threatened animals.

2. Education/Connection for Public and Wildlife. Unfortunately, without having something staring at our face and tugging on our heart strings, it is difficult for people to place value (ie. send/allocate money, time, resources) on our animal neighbors in light of all the other needs of the world. Also, once we are out of school, there are few opportunities for educational reinforcement like those at the zoo.

DeafCaroline

lol. Zoos only say they're involved in conservation to make themselves look good while they buy animals taken from the wild. Zoos are not exactly nonprofit orgs, they're in the business of making a profit off exhibiting enslaved animals.

How educational is it to look at an animal who is not behaving naturally as they would have in the wild? People look at a miserable animal in a cage or a box for a minute or two then move on.

You can get way more education from a film or a book than looking at an animal in a box who is not at all behaving normally but like a prisoner.

Psychologically, imprisonment affects their psyche as much as it would have affected yours if you were taken away from your mother at a very young age, put in a small box or small area then stared at by noisy strangers all day, your every move controlled.

Ever notice how many animals rock back and forth or make other repetitive movements? It's called stereotypy. Look it up.

dogmom

some zoos allow more natural and un-restricted movement and environments and do have captive breeding programs, but overall I have real mixed feelings about zoos.

I especially disagree with the ways zoos traditionally house animals like elephants.

Mohave

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