Yes. It all depends on individual communities, but not really. Another reason is space requirements of zoo animals vary so differently. But in this country, no. It’s not really a big problem. We talked about animal dealers. Read More
How should zoos deal with surplus animals?… Read More
That’s a million dollar question. Because ultimately, euthanasia may surface, a hot potato that nobody wants to touch. Surplus animals. That issue can be solved in different ways. Sending them to private individuals, that’s a no-no. The technology advances to the point that you can do artificial insemination, it might… Read More
Space?… Read More
Space. Read More
Physical space?… Read More
They are eye openers, really. Read More
Does space continue to be a problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More
So in other words, it’s in a cocoon. Difference is in European zoos, so many countries are sort of packed in a relatively small size. They communicate well, despite the language differences, and so forth, and they have their own zoo community. We have to learn from that. And it… Read More
Some European zoo enthusiasts either zoo people, or non zoo employees, keep their life list. Sometime, 1000. Sometime 1500. Someone said, oh mine is 1500 something something. And they even come up with a solid list of number of zoos in the whole world. That aspect, the global aspect, American… Read More
Lack of coordination. Individual zoos doing their things. Another aspect is also the cost, of course. You’ve traveled extensively through Europe, and the United States. Read More
Are there major differences in philosophies in European zoos and US zoos?… Read More
Doesn’t show on the surface. But Europe is where the modern zoo, not ancient zoos, but the modern zoo was born. First one being in Paris, think it was November 1794. Now the core of the professional zoos, in my opinion, is not in North America, but in German speaking… Read More
Sounds like what Bill Conway said, but anyway, to an extent, if you keep elephants in captivity, you’re obligated to provide the best care for them. To do that, it’s expensive, but you have to build decent facility to meet their requirement. That money you have to invest. Beyond that,… Read More
Why do you think zoos did not implement, speaking of elephants, a major elephant national breeding program?… Read More
Would this money be better spent going for in situ conservation of elephants?… Read More
What are the issues, the problems?… Read More
Used to be that you have to have an elephant, so you have a single elephant. Buy a little baby from an animal dealer, two three year old. By the time an elephant becomes five, six years old, he she, mostly she, begins to knock down keepers. Oh, call up… Read More
You have to sell them, or keep them chained up. It’s been changing, fortunately. You mentioned elephants. Zoos are spending many tens of millions of dollars on elephant exhibits. Mm-hmm. Read More
Probably related to wild animal biology, the requirements, and so on. But that was, that came much earlier. That came recently, rather recently. Earlier, the focus was how the exhibit looked like, with material available. You know that gunnite, the fake rock, or artificial rock once conquered the American zoos. Read More