COMMENTS:
Voted : I don't go period.
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Voted : I don't go period.
I don't go to Zoos period. I haven't been to one since I was a kid and I hated it then, seeing all those poor animals in cages.
As for this Tiger attack at the Zoo, from what I understand, the Tiger was provoked. So I say the man who was killed got what he had coming to him.
I can't remember last time I was at a zoo, I was still a kid.
Voted : I still go to zoos to see the animals
I really love animals and the Zoo is still the only place to see some animals you might never see in nature. But in truth, I hate zoos because it is cruel to keep a living creature locked up. But, for endangered species, it's the best way to re-populate the species.
At the Bronx Zoo, they really go the extra mile to make sure the animals are in enclosures that are much like the places they'd live in nature. But still, they're locked up, so I don't know how much of a concilation that is.
Voted : I still go to zoos to see the animals
I carry my son and nephew to the nearest one when they want to go. My son loves biology and wants to go into the veterinary field one day, it was the early trips to the zoo that insprired him.
The one we go to has a breeding program for several endangered animals, as well has being a refuge for a few handicapped ones that woulnd't last a day in the wild and that most other zoos don't want.
The very large majority (unless they're illegally imported or undergoing rehabilitation due to injury) are bred specifically for captivity. Life in a zoo is all they know. To me, it's no different than keeping a cat or dog inside a house for it's entire life.
Voted : I don't go to zoos anymore
Truth has not ventured within a zoo since 1973, and it didn't take a tiger mauling to do the deed...
Beware the poo. These little bastiches don't bother to make it into racecars.
Yes. There's nothing more enjoyable than seeing a wild animal held captive in an enclosure.
^sarcasm
I remembered the perfect quote to sum up my feelings about zoos, from the unsurpassed Judd Winick's "The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius". Pardons in advance for the language.
"Nothign gives me *greater* pleasure than gawking at hundreds of species previously minding their *own fucking business* in their natural habitats- who were then captured, pumped with more drugs than a *Phish* concert- and *jailed* for the pleasure of masses of insensitive, drooling douchebags."
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