[Leonard D Neubache]

(06-04-2016 04:45 AM)Horus Wrote:  

(06-04-2016 03:56 AM)Fortis Wrote:  

A lot of this all goes back to zoos being bullshit in the first place. SJW knuckleheads say zoos are for "preservation" but I guaran--fucking--tee you that these animals aren't living as long in captivity as they would in the wild if they weren't hunted down by poachers in stuff. We should not be making these gorillas into public pets. They aren't built for it and we shouldn't try and make them do it.

C'mon man. Zoos are great. For children they are a magical place. It's also a good place to bring Asian girls for a daytime date. I remember taking a train to the big city as a kid and visiting a zoo for the first time and seeing all the animals I had seen on TV, and it was one of my most memorable childhood experiences.

And there's no way that zoo animals live shorter lives than in the wild, with the expert veterinary care, abundant food and lack of predators.

Not to mention the inter-zoo breeding programmes that ensure when the last black rhino in the wild is killed for its horn to cure an old Chinese man's impotence, the species will still live on in captivity.

I agree. Lots of people seem to think that animals in captivity are perpetually miserable (some enclosures are quite shitty in fairness) but most animals are infinitely lazy when given the opportunity to be so. Life in the wilderness is a perpetual struggle of life and death. Predators face starvation from a single injury while prey live in fear of the predator.

I recall reading about polar bears who returned to the same traps year after year in order to live in comfortable captivity throughout the winter months. Many had to be violently evicted, even in the summer. Living in an enclosure might suck for a human, but animals are not humans.