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 Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:17 pm
I would have to say the monkeys. The Spider Monkeys I think they are called. I just love seeing how much they remind us of ourselves. I think it would be awesome to raise one or work with a monkey and see how much it can learn. It's just so amazing how much it knows! xp
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:31 am
my fav animals at the zoo are cheatahs there awesome. At this one zoo thye had wild horses! Those were awesome i loved them! heart
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 8:39 pm
i just went to the zoo like 2 days ago and it was so cool there were these bright pink birds(not flamingoes) and they were small with like 6 inch beaks and the exibit has like a fence but then its open(for some reason they dont fly out??)and there was one bird really close to the fence and i reached up and it started playing with my finger and biting it( not like chomping but like trying to pick it up lol) but it was soooooo cool!! and also this other exibit was like a rainforest but the fence was on like the 2 floor and there was this black and white hornbill and he was flying around and we thought he was gonna land on the branch in front of us but he kept flying and landed on the fence in front of us and he was looking at us and we were like a couple of inches away!!!!!!! it was soooo cool!! blaugh blaugh blaugh
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:23 pm
heart heart heart heart I LOVE heart heart TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! heart heart heart heart heart heart
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:43 am
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:07 pm
I dont like the zoo i cant stand seeing animals in cages. But i know they are helping them like saving them from instinction. when i was little there was a horse trailer by my house, and i let the horse out cause i dont like seeing them in cages and things. crying
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 5:01 pm
heart i like tigers and lions heart stare
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 11:21 am
Zoos are cruel and do not help animals at all
There are hundreds of substandard wildlife attractions throughout the U.S., ranging from backyard menageries to so-called "sanctuaries" to drive-through parks. Masquerading as conservation, education, or rescue facilities, roadside and traveling zoos are among the worst abusers of captive wildlife and fuel the multibillion-dollar-a-year trade in exotic, rare, and endangered species. With zoological institutions accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) carelessly unloading surplus animals and with little regulation from authorities, the private zoo business has exploded over the last 30 years.
The animals are kept in grotesquely inadequate conditions and suffer myriad problems, such as neglect, abuse, malnutrition, incompatible social groupings, unsuitable climate, and insufficient veterinary care. With little opportunity for mental stimulation or physical exercise, animals often become despondent and develop abnormal and self-destructive behaviors, called zoochosis. These behavioral disturbances include pacing, rocking, swaying, bar-biting, pulling out hair and feathers, and biting themselves.
This tiger was shot and killed in a trailer for his skin and other organs. Click here to see more images of the end of the line for some tigers in captivity.
Profit-hungry zoo operators perpetually breed animals so that they will have an endless supply of "cute babies" in order to draw crowds. The older, unmanageable animals are left to languish in small cages or disposed of when they have exhausted their "usefulness." Exotic animal auctions, frequented by unscrupulous dealers, are a popular method of discarding unwanted "display" animals, who ultimately end up in the pet trade, on breeding farms, killed for their skins and other organs, or used for canned hunts. Some animals, such as tigers, lions, and bears—both cubs and adults—are worth more dead than alive. Hides alone can fetch $2,000 to $20,000 or more. Entire families are slaughtered and stuffed for mounts that sell for $10,000. To avoid damaging pelts, animals are killed by the most gruesome methods imaginable, such as shoving ice picks through their ears and into their brains, suffocating them by wrapping plastic bags around their heads, and drowning.
Cradle-Robbers
Baby animals are exploited from the day they are born. Newborns are prematurely removed from their mothers, which denies them proper nutrition and the natural socialization process required for normal development. Tigers, lions, and cougars are torn from their mothers when they are just 5 days old and declawed at 2 weeks of age. Mothers spend weeks calling frantically for their missing babies. In the wild, tiger cubs stay with their mothers for three years. Primate mothers, who passionately protect their babies, often are sedated so that their 1-day-old infants can be taken, diapered, and bottle-fed. Bear cubs naturally remain at their mothers' sides for the first two years of life, but breeders take them after only a month. These frightened, helpless infants are often crated and shipped across the country to buyers or hauled around for exhibition. Some do not survive the stress.
Learning "De-Meaning" of Wildlife
White Tigers:
Moneymaking Mutants
Zoological expert and wildlife consultant Sue Pressman says that people in the exotic animal trade "are to wildlife education what pornographers are to sex education." Self-proclaimed authorities with no formal training in wildlife issues or care frequently operate these pitiful attractions. Many start out as hobbyists who purchase their first few exotics on a whim as a means of impressing people.
In an attempt to clean up the sleazy image long associated with roadside zoos, operators of these facilities now declare themselves "conservationists." They in fact do nothing to protect wildlife or preserve habitat, and they breed animals indiscriminately, without regard for genetic diversity and with nowhere suitable for them to go. What people learn from these exhibitors is how animals act in captivity and that it is acceptable to cause wild animals to be bored, cramped, lonely, and kept far from their natural homes.
Wildlife exhibitors mislead the public with impressive-sounding but meaningless credentials, such as "federally licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Department of the Interior." Federal permits to exhibit, breed, or sell regulated animals are required and issued to nearly anyone who fills out an application and sends in a fee. The USDA exhibitor application is a 3/4-page-long form that asks for a person's name, address, and animal inventory but nothing that pertains to qualifications. The Animal Welfare Act, which the USDA enforces, sets only minimum standards of care and rarely addresses an animal’s psychological needs. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), the branch of the Department of the Interior that issues permits to buy and sell threatened and endangered species, considers non-native wildlife a low priority. Breeding mills have so saturated the market with "generic tigers" of unknown lineage that USFWS exempts these animals from full regulation. Some exhibitors even retain their licenses despite incidents of deadly animal attacks, dangerous animal escapes, serious violations of the Animal Welfare Act, and illegal wildlife trafficking.
A Catastrophe Waiting to Happen
Read PETA's factsheet on exotic animals as "pets"
The Siberian Tiger Foundation in Ohio promotes itself as an "education and training" facility that allows the public to "experience a unique hands-on close encounter with full-grown tigers as well as baby cubs." Like many roadside zoos, the Siberian Tiger Foundation also drags the animals around to schools, hospitals, amusement parks, and even weddings for "educational programs" supposedly because "the smiles on [its] visitors’ faces" will somehow contribute to the tigers’ survival. And while declawing, petting, cuddling, straddling, brushing, sleeping in bed with, posing with, litter-box training, and walking leashed tigers, they adamantly claim not to promote keeping big cats as pets. This hypocritical message is the trademark of the charlatan conservationist. People are influenced by these glorified "pet" owners, whose actions, despite what they say, encourage the private ownership of exotic animals.
According to Animal Underworld, by Alan Green, there are approximately 250 tigers in the 180-plus zoos accredited by the AZA. But there are an estimated 7,000 "pet" tigers in the United States, some confined towindowless basements, others relegated to makeshift backyard cages or used as guard animals in crack houses. Captive-bred endangered species are so prolific that disillusioned owners, eager to dump unwanted felines, have actually placed "free to a good home" ads in the Animal Finders’ Guide for tigers and lions.
Close Encounters of the Deadly Kind
Charging fees for photo opportunities and other physical contact with dangerous animals is a moneymaking scheme that, not surprisingly, often results in serious injury. On October 21, 2000, a 10-year-old boy was knocked to the ground and bitten on the leg by a tiger at the Siberian Tiger Foundation while participating in a "close encounter." This was the 10th incident in seven months in which members of the public had been bitten or otherwise injured by tigers at this facility.
Click here for lists of attacks since 1990.
Big Cat Attacks
Primate Incidents
Elephant Rampages
Bear Attacks
In September 2000, a tiger cub bit a man during a photo op at the New Mexico State Fair. In June 1999, a caged tiger attacked a woman visiting Safari Zoological Park in Sterling, Kansas. In January 1999, a 5-month-old tiger cub also belonging to Safari Zoological Park bit the throat of a 5-year-old child. The tiger was killed the next day. In July 1998, a woman taking a photo with a Bengal tiger at California’s Marine World was mauled. The same month, a 5-year-old boy needed plastic surgery to his face after being attacked by a tiger at a photo booth at the North Dakota state fair. In August 1997, a 13-year-old girl was rushed to the emergency room after being bitten by a tiger during a photo session in Massachusetts. In May 1997, a tiger mauled a student at a roadside menagerie in Knox County, Tennessee. In April 1997, a leopard killed and partially ate a woman visiting the Oakhill Center for Rare and Endangered Species in Oklahoma. The leopard was later shot to death.
About 90 percent of all macaque monkeys are infected with the Herpes B virus, which is relatively benign in monkeys but nearly 70 percent fatal to humans. Macaques and other dangerous primates are commonly found in roadside and traveling zoos. In May 1998, a macaque bit a child and a teenager at a store during a promotional event in Wichita, Kansas. In December 1997, a 6-year-old child visiting Octagon Exotics in Florida was attacked by a caged baboon, who pulled out chunks of her hair and attempted to bite her. In three separate Illinois incidents in 1997, a baboon at a petting zoo bit a 4-year-old girl, a baboon with a traveling zoo scratched a 15-year-old girl’s leg during a parade, and a vervet monkey with a traveling zoo bit a 3-year-old girl in the face at a festival. In February 1996, a squirrel monkey bit a child during a school demonstration in Maine.
Bears are equally hazardous. In March 1988, a 7-year-old, 300-pound Himalayan bear with Wally Naghtin’s traveling bears ripped off much of a 2-year-old boy’s scalp during a photo opportunity at the Kingsgate Mall in Ohio. The boy spent 18 days in a hospital and received more than 100 stitches. The toddler’s family filed an $11 million lawsuit against the mall and the bear’s owner, only to learn that Naghtin’s liability policy did not cover photo opportunities with adult bears. The same bear had clawed a 4-year-old a month earlier.
And that was c/p from www.wildlifepimps.com
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 5:32 pm
Hmm, all of them. I like seeing the tigers and big cats. The elepants too, and the safari parts. whee
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:30 pm
I worked/work at a zoo..and my fave was little lady roxy. she was a fox. so adorable. she was from australia but she liked the penquin foon..so I'd sneak her a fishy treat.
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:32 pm
oh and to punk rocker..that is a complete lie. I do help animals thank you. so far we have rescuded..well I have rescued 10 animals and the zoo has rescude many. were adding to the spider monkey population. we educate people about the wildlife and we take care of non wanted animals. mastly the farm animals that were going to be sent to the sloghter house. so please...don't say zoos do not help.
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 10:45 pm
The Reptile House is my favorite part of the Zoo and thats always the first place I go when I get their.
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:05 pm
Since I'm a horse-lover I love seeing the Przewalski's horses (Asian wild horses) at the zoo. They have such primitive, rugged beauty. I also like seeing really weird animals like tapirs. biggrin
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:10 pm
I would REALLY appreciate it if no one ever quoted PETA in this entire guild. I automatically think PETA is a complete waste of an organization and a bunch of sad excuses for human beings.
Plus, their articles are completely biased and un-researched, especially that BS zoo article. Please refrain from quoting PETA again. Thank you.
EDIT: I've already addressed this in the meat and veggies thread, punk rocker, so go there for my apologies on the harshness.
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:52 pm
I do love zoos, but only the healthy ones. There's a large cat shelter near my cousins house, and every time we visit her, I drag them to see all the beautiful tigers and lions that have been rescued from abusive zoos, circuses, and rich private owners that didn't know how to take care of them. I went there so often that the zookeepers let me feed one of the baby tigers (supervised with padded glove and suitable food, of course). Now, every time I go there, the beautiful cats come to the front of their exhibits and wait for me. whee Since you can apply there (It's also a college for people studying animals and stuff) I want to go there when I get old enough. I know I'll love it.
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