A Blog designed for discussion of topics related to, but not limited to, Circus, Zoos, Animal Training, and Animal Welfare/Husbandry. Sometimes opening up the dialog is the best starting point of all. And if for nothing else when people who agree and don't agree, get together and start discussing it, it will open up a lot of peoples minds. Debate and discussion even amongst themselves opens a window where there wasn't one before.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Werribee Open Range Zoo in Victoria , Australia--The "gold standard" for education in a zoological facility??
Courtesy of Mark Rosenthal
It's incredible the conceive that a lion jumping on the hood of a jeep, enticed by chunks of meat so that it can be viewed up close through glass is educational, and endorsed as entertainment and a way of giving people a greater understanding and appreciation of wildlife, while a lion jumping up on a pedestal, or through a hoop of fire, in pursuit of the same meat used to entice the lion up on the hood at the "zoo", only cut in smaller pieces and carried in a pouch on the trainers hip is called cruel, neither educational or entertaining, and should be stopped so good folks who want them jumping on jeeps, aren't offended any more???? If anybody has been able to wrap their brain around that cockeyed reasoning, please help me to understand????
Some European footage I think will interest you:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uML4dyprFNU&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL