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According to this preservation group's website[0], the territorial range of wild African elephants can extend as far as 2,700,000 acres. Zoos are moving away fr
by wavefunction 10y ago
According to this preservation group's website[0], the territorial range of wild African elephants can extend as far as 2,700,000 acres. Zoos are moving away from the concrete boxes but I don't know that it could ever be enough to truly offer these and all the other animals in our zoos a decent life.
As I wrote in a separate post in this thread, I find zoos to be inhumane for this reason and I believe the millions spent on zoos could preserve and encourage the populations of wild animals in-situ by also providing economic development to the nearby human populations so they don't resort to habitat destruction or poaching.
[0]http://www.globalelephants.org/space-much-enough/ http://www.globalelephants.org/space-much-enough/
- slfnflctd 10y agoHow do you feel about pet ownership? [My prior comment, also in this thread, is a brief summary of what I think about it.]
- wavefunction 10y agoI read your comment and I can understand your viewpoint. My opinion is that it's most realistic to make the admittedly arbitrary call that domesticated animals are a historical fact at this point and there's no way to put them 'back into nature.' I think these domesticated animals and pets should be offered the most humane lives possible within the cultural relationship with humans. I try to eat mostly vegetarian but I don't believe absolutism is healthy or a realistic way to live life. I don't approve of exotic animal pets, mostly because I feel that the animals likely won't fair well under care that is probably insufficient to their needs, and also that they like zoo inhabitants would be better off in their natural (non-anthropogenic) habitats experiencing life as their species should.