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...
I'm not surprised by the presence of vultures. In the US at least king vultures are incredibly common and Andean condors fairly so. Both have...
The pictures showed you handling them, so I thought you did that as part of the tour, since many places in the US do that sort of thing.
@geomorph: Like I said, the only one really worth seeing is the Austin Nature and Science Center, maybe the CoT Zoo if you really want to see its...
I mean, you have rattlesnakes—which are among the snakes that interest me—at your zoo. (My favorite snake is the Madagascar leaf-nosed snake....
I've never been to a British zoo, so my observations are entirely based on North American zoos and almost entirely based on US zoos. Bald eagles...
In this thread, I noted that some animals are almost ubiquitous as zoo animals (at least in zoos that call themselves zoos), but are split between...
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