45 days of the odd remain
I am of two minds on the subject of zoos.
On one hand... PRETTY ANIMALS! All in one place for me to ogle!
On the other... It would be so much better for them if they could, you know, live in their own environment.
I understand the need to care for the dis-possessed... but not all the animals there are there for that reason, I'm fairly sure.
Perhaps the thing that really brought my concerns to the fore was when I saw a lone Hyena curled up in a cage. It just seemed so damn cruel - here is a creature for whom loneliness would be a harbinger of death, put in that position so humans could gawk...
On one hand... PRETTY ANIMALS! All in one place for me to ogle!
On the other... It would be so much better for them if they could, you know, live in their own environment.
I understand the need to care for the dis-possessed... but not all the animals there are there for that reason, I'm fairly sure.
Perhaps the thing that really brought my concerns to the fore was when I saw a lone Hyena curled up in a cage. It just seemed so damn cruel - here is a creature for whom loneliness would be a harbinger of death, put in that position so humans could gawk...