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Quilotoa @lemmy.ca

5d ago

Zoos of the future may have no animals

www.cbc.ca /documentaries/zoos-of-the-future-may-have-no-animals-at-all-1.7505613

Zoos are struggling as the sentiment against captive animals increases. Some are turning the zoos into information centres without animals.

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There are certain otherwise extinct species that only still exist because of zoos, for profit zoos should not exist for sure but just as many are dedicated to conservation and the rate of species decline is going up daily. Zoos that focus on conservation have been responsible for re-introuding a few species back to the wild and I for one would like to see that continue. We only have Califonia Condors today because of the conservation efforts of the San Diego zoo for example.
https://theconversation.com/the-animals-and-plants-that-only-exist-in-captivity-and-why-time-is-running-out-to-restore-them-to-the-wild-200570
https://exploringanimals.com/animal-species-that-only-exist-in-captivity/
https://medium.com/taronga-conservation-society-australia/10-endangered-species-saved-from-extinction-by-zoos-682c454d0125
- yeah this does not make a lot of sense to me. We are not really recovering natural spaces for them to live.

- Do you own any pets? What are your thoughts on keeping them inside your dwelling for your amusement?
  
  Keeping animals that have been bred into domestication over thousands of years is different than catching a wild animal and putting it in an enclosure. Corgies don't wish they were out in the wild hunting deer, they want people to pet them. Tigers don't want to be pet no matter how nice the magicians are.
  
  It's not amusement. It's company. They become part of the family and are treated as such. It's far from the treatment animals get in zoos and they're fam from being wild animals, too. As someone else pointed out, these are domesticated animals.
- If I were the last human, I would rather die than be kept captive and on display by aliens.
  See how you're taking your own preference and assuming that for other creatures?
  
  See how you’re taking your own preference and assuming that for other creatures?
  Back at you supporting zoos.

I mean we can only hope that in the absence of Zoos we maybe gain something better like an accessible way to see animals in their natural habitats.
Sure you'd not get to witness animals from more foreign climates close to home, but honestly I'm fine with that.

We really are in the worst timeline.

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