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Is indication zoos doing any good, particularly in boosting the image of zoos among the public in the face of anti zoo groups?… Read More

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I would imagine they are, but I think they be, they will become a crutch and alright, you haven’t filled out the form, so therefore you don’t know of whether that, of whether that animal has good welfare or not. Well, I can, from working with the animal for the… Read More

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So is welfare important?… Read More

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Are the tools that are being created useful?… Read More

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And welfare is a bit like that you by, right?… Read More

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You should know a good bit about that species behavior, you know, how they should cope, how they’re interacting with their enclosure. If you’re working with an animal every day, you should be able to make a fairly accurate welfare assessment just from your own casual observations. But now it… Read More

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I said, well, you know, particularly from your point of view, it seems that for them to be able to judge whether their animal is emaciated, obese or all right, they need to have a chart that right, you know, from one to six, you know, emaciated to obese so… Read More

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And he was going, what you talking about?… Read More

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There is a, a huge movement at the moment where everything needs to be welfare assessed on a regular basis, be it daily, monthly, weekly, whatever. And there are various assessment tools have been created. It’s probably something that, that these tools that I need to become a wee bit… Read More

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And, and I made the comment, I said, when when did, when did Zookeepers go blind?… Read More

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Now some zoos used to do their own expeditions. Bronx Zoo was a good one. London did it to a limited extent, but there were dealers that you could rely on. And most of the, the populations we we are managing now, it was dealers that provided the animals. So… Read More

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I think Do Zeus and Aquariums need to be more involved with animal welfare?… Read More

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So they need to get over themselves and have a sensible review of, okay, right, how are we gonna do this?… Read More

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No, it wasn’t. But there’s this, there’s a complete lack of understanding or perspective of why the wild is still an important resource and why for many of the species that we allude to managing on conservation grounds, if the population isn’t gene on a sound genetic founder base, then… Read More

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Was it an appropriate way to collect baby apes?… Read More

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I said, you the animals you work with, you do realize where either they or their parents or indeed their grandparents, how they came into captivity and by what means?… Read More

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’cause I’ve seen stuff now. Well, you know, the gorillas that came into this zoo or that zoo. ’cause they were, they were poached from the wild. No, they weren’t. It was completely legal. Read More

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And about a third of them put their hand up. Read More

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He said, how many you work with apes?… Read More

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But I was in a workshop or hovering around the edge of these workshops, they had a, a keeper conference and one of them was about, you know, bringing animals in from the wild. And I’m standing there on the edge and I’m listening to all these self-righteous individuals talking… Read More