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Some zoos also undertake conservation efforts such as captive breeding and reintroduction. [0] is just one example. I hope bills like this don't swing the pendu
by i_am_proteus 7y ago
Some zoos also undertake conservation efforts such as captive breeding and reintroduction. [0] is just one example. I hope bills like this don't swing the pendulum too far and end up hindering conservation.
[0] http://www.torontozoo.com/Conservation/captive-breeding.asp http://www.torontozoo.com/Conservation/captive-breeding.asp
- ygjb 7y agoI think that captive breeding with the goal of reintroduction would fall under the welfare and best interest or scientific research clauses introduced and amended by the legislation. https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/S-203/third-reading https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/S-203/third-...
- mabbo 7y agoI think a middle ground can be found. While I really love the Toronto zoo, watching their lynx pace back and forth in the cage, digging a path into the ground, that really impacted my impression of zoos generally. Perhaps large[0] cats like that don't belong in small enclosures. [0]Lynx are actually much smaller than I expected, and bobcats even smaller than that. Still, they need a large space to thrive.
- magduf 7y agoI've seen a lynx (mountain lion) close-up too, and they're not small. They're the height of a medium size dog, but far more muscular. They can easily take down a human, and have been known to kill humans (usually women) when very hungry and too close to civilization. Of course, they're not the size of a Siberian tiger; those things are huge. As for needing a large space to thrive: that would be nice, but they can't really live in the wild in most places any more because stupid humans will kill them. This is the whole reason deer are so overpopulated in many places in the US; lynxes are their normal predators.