Dreamworlds Tiger cubs » Dreamworld

24-04-2007

Well there a a few pictures of the cubs on the website now, they have been moved to the nursery and are pretty darn cute. the website lso provides some good info on the cats, including birth details and the history of the parents etc. CUTE!!!!

tiger coservation and messages
24-04-2007

I have to agree with Patrick. It seems to me that Glyn believes that everyone that goes to a zoo is a university professor and all of the village idiots go to a theme park. Probably a little of both.

Sure it is great to exhibit elephants next to other animals that interact in their environment. However the average zoogoer does not get the connection. I do not have any problem with the elephants coming to the zoos here and I fully support their value to conservation. I know keepers at both Melbourne and Taronga and think that they do an excellent job.

In the interest of the survival of exotic animals at zoos in Australia they do need to look forward. It is only going to become more difficult to maintain collections with animal rights pressures as well as government over regulation.

The argument though about wht was best for these individual animals can be raised. Were they in better conditions in Thailand?

24-04-2007

give me a break. people go to zoos to see animals, if they werent intereste d in the first place they wouldnt go. they go to theme parks to go on rides. i dont care if dreamworld has tigers (they could have elephants too, or polar bears, or giraffes, or aardvarks), they do a good job of looking after them. they donate some money, lots of it. they give a talk about tigers. then you cna go and jump on the tower of terror and forget all about it. if thats considered to be conservation, or education and if thats all we have to do to save tigers, then thats good...maybe things are a bit simpler over the border, any wonder people move up there
it would make you wonder why zoos spend so much time peddling issues like habitat conservation, trying to change behaviours by teaching things you can do at home, ecology and biodiversity when conservation can be as fun and happy as this.

why people go to zoos
24-04-2007

Please give me a break. I am pretty sure that people go to zoos for several reasons which may be as simple as going to nice place to have a day out of the house. It may be even take their kid to the petting zoo cause it's fun.

Maybe the principle reason to go to a theme park is to go on the rides, at least for most people. Believe it or not some of them go to see the tigers and even a few want to learn about them. How dare these people go to theme park and not just focus on rides!

25-04-2007

Dreamworld has a big range of native animals there in good exhibits and from what i hear doing a real good job with them too, I understand they also have the secong biggest Koala colony in the world, sure they are not a zoo but if they are doing a good job teaching people about animals and breeding animals good on them, and if they donate money to conservation even better.

25-04-2007

ptig are you an american?

25-04-2007

I am a citizen of the world. What are you writing a book?

26-04-2007

ha ha, howd you know. i jst noticed you said petting zoo, and was sonly wondering.

26-04-2007

Mark, do I understand that you think this is a good thing? From what I understand, the largest colony in captivity is just down the road from Dreamworld at Lone Pine - around a couple of hundred Koalas, I think. What on earth would warrant holding this many koalas (apart from selling them Japanese or US zoos of course)? There's nothing that can't be done with 5-10 animals, and the costs involved with keeping this many is huge.

Personally, I don't think for a second that holding that many koalas is anything to brag about.

26-04-2007

probably so that they can rotate them for photo sessions. and at a guess thats exactly why taronga zoo has about 30 koalas as well!!

26-04-2007

I agree with what Pat said, that must be the reason, I did not say keeping that many was a good thing or a bad thing just stating a fact (If thats ok with you). If you think i am bragging about that then you are wrong mate.But thats ok we all make mistakes dont we.

13-05-2007

australian forum members, the great outdoors is doing a story on these cubs tomorrow night (monday 730 pm EST).

14-05-2007

nope sorry, it was on satuarday night, great outdoors had moved to saturdays, well in my area anyway- it features shelly craft with the cubs, and the manager of tiger island, seems a kool bloke!

15-05-2007

hi to him too