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Zoos for things like sentient gorillas should be free range with many acres and if people want to see them, they go in a protected on track bubble like they do in safari zoo experiences.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: MisterSpock
There are two sides to that.
People care about what they can directly experience and see. This is one of the most important impacts of a zoo. You get to see animals up close and really see them. Wildlife docs on TV don't have the same impact or directness as getting to really look a gorilla or giraffe or lion in the eyes does, to really see and experience that animal and understand it lives and breathes same as you.
It would be interesting to me to see just how many who agitate against zoos today got their start in loving animals so much in no small part because they went to those same zoos as small children.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: SaturnFX
The other issue is, after having worked for a vet clinic in high school, you cannot predict how an animal will react to tranquilizer. Sometimes, there is a short while before they go under where they simply go berserk because they see things (hallucinate). If that had happened while he was around that little boy ... well ... that kid is many times less durable than another gorilla would be and much less able to get away.
I had a Samoyed do this to me. It was freaky. One minute the animal is quiet and seems to be slumping over, the next it turns into your worst nightmare of a vicious attack dog trying to rip out your throat, and then it abruptly keels over.
originally posted by: Looselungjones2
a reply to: xuenchen
Or the fact that a white nationalists movement is forming around trump.
originally posted by: Hazardous1408
Did any of you see how viscously that gorilla was dragging the boy through the water...
I'd have shot him as well.
I don't get the outrage.
originally posted by: FaunaOrFlora
rather lose some stupid kid to some stupid parents
originally posted by: Bennyzilla
a reply to: FaunaOrFlora
How is that the kids fault in any way?
originally posted by: FaunaOrFlora
a reply to: Bennyzilla
I call it "the Darwin award".
Stupid enough to dangle your kid over any zoo enclosure and you win by losing said kid.
Don't like it? Too bad.