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#46
23-01-2008
I think I remember seeing a program about Auckland zoo building a new area for their hippo's. Didn't they keep the old enclosure as well? If they didn't want to breed from the hippo's, why not keep the male seggregated from the females in the old enclosure.
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#47
Aucklands hippo enclosure
25-01-2008
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#48
25-01-2008
It's hard to defend the indefensible and castrating that hippo was indefensible.
They might as well have just shot him - one less mouth to feed! |
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#49
26-01-2008
I'm gonna jump in the deep end here but does casturating an animal , making it useless for breeding make it a commercial animal? so just being used as attraction (like a rollercoaster lol)
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#50
26-01-2008
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#51
26-01-2008
yeah i understand with primates, what the hipo social stucture like for casturated males?
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#52
29-01-2008
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i got no problems with castration per se. what i do have is a problem with short-sighted decisions and poorly managed breeding programs. whether the decision in this case was wrong i cannot be the judge, since i have little knowledge of the issue. |
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#53
Aucklands hippos
29-01-2008
I am not going to defend Auckland Zoo on this point , and this is only my theory , but I think that the zoo was concerned over future hippo relations with each other , and didnt want to have several hippo enclosures due to aggressive behaviour by one or more hippo ....
I will be very sad though , if/when that exhibit is terminated . They are magnificent creatures ! |
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