This is fascinating. Daryl Richardson's tactics look a lot like Howard Voren's, something I would not have thought possible in this day and age....
No. Please re-read my opening post. If I understand you, your complaint seems to be that I'm using lay terms wherever possible and that some of...
If I designed a zoo I wouldn't have orangs at all (at most I'd have one great ape: bonobos), however I've been very clearly both in my original...
I think most of the zoos I think of as "small zoos" are actually mid-sized zoos. The only truly small zoos I've been to are the Christensen Zoo,...
See, I actually love natural history museums, but museums usually have interesting signs to read. (I always read all the signs; most people I...
I suggested handling them by having signage comparing the three species, since they aren't found in captivity as far as I know. My suggestion...
Unless a texotic has become naturalized outside of the game ranches, I generally don't see the point of including it in a zoo dedicated to the...
@Gigit: Gorillas get a lot of attention. Every zoo I've been to gorillas either have a long line (as at the San Diego Zoo), or a crowded exhibit....
@Coelacanth18 : I guess I should have said that I've never seen AZA zoos do this, so its absence in EAZA zoos would not have been noticed by me....
I said it looks like you're handling a venomous snake because it identified the picture, not that you were handling venomous snakes. I was...
I think most ZooChatters get annoyed about the focus zoos place on a few charismatic species, which is why we complain about "ABC animals" and...
I didn't say you were handling venomous snakes, and people who use snakes as educational animals in the US usually use non-venomous ones, but that...
On your website there's a picture that looks like you're demonstrating how to handle a venomous snake (it's very small but that's what I thought...
I think you're missing the point. I'm not saying this is what makes a good zoo, and there's a reason I put "obligatory" in quotes. I'm also not...
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