Topic: What About The Tragedy At Seaworld?

[bucky katt]

i dont really care to see wild critters cooped up in too small enclosures/tanks but unfortunately not everyone gives a rats ass about preserving a species and/or their habitat. while living in Tampa i did volunteer work at a big cat sanctuary as well as at the zoo and one of the things i did at Big Cat Rescue was help to raise one of the very last snow leopards (i think there were 110 left in the world at the time) so if zoos (good ones with a proper amount of space for the critters) keep/breed endangered critters it may be the only way to preserve some. ok that response was a bit of gibberish i see but i dont want to take the time to fix it  i've been awake since monday morning except for an hour or 2 last night.

[demon78]

Bucky, I agree, if the facility has the proper environment it may be the only way to preserve the species and hopefully return it to the world, having said that I don't think that many of the endangered critters are going to be with us muck longer, now there will always be the scavenger, coyotes sea gulls vultures people etc.
Bill the demon.

[bucky katt]

as long as theres still people we'll still lose endangered species, the extinct list gets longer all the time.

[mystic_1]

Bucky, I agree, if the facility has the proper environment it may be the only way to preserve the species and hopefully return it to the world, having said that I don't think that many of the endangered critters are going to be with us muck longer, now there will always be the scavenger, coyotes sea gulls vultures people etc.
Bill the demon.

The 'proper environment' for whales is an ocean.  Very few zoos are equipped with those.

mystic_1

[bucky katt]

Bucky, I agree, if the facility has the proper environment it may be the only way to preserve the species and hopefully return it to the world, having said that I don't think that many of the endangered critters are going to be with us muck longer, now there will always be the scavenger, coyotes sea gulls vultures people etc.
Bill the demon.

The 'proper environment' for whales is an ocean.  Very few zoos are equipped with those.

mystic_1

this is very true but at least at seaworld they dont have Japanese whaling ships.........i mean research vessels going after them.

[mystic_1]

True that.

I wonder though, if a species only exists in zoos, completely removed from it's natural habitat and controlled by human influence, have we really preserved the species, or created a different one?

Consider Canis Lupus Familiaris and Felis Silvestris Catus.

mystic_1