I think you may have misunderstood a bit. You're referring to the "California Orca Protection Act", which I did not refer to in my comment, but it...
It's unlikely habitat upgrades would mitigate criticisms. The Blue World Project was SeaWorld's concept for upgrading their exhibits in San Diego...
Only two male gorillas were moved to this exhibit to form a small bachelor troop, as they'd both been challenging the silverback, Winston, and...
Not to derail this conversation any further from the point, but for most institutions that assessment is accurate, not especially so for SeaWorld,...
I completely agree with this! A number of people here said orangutans, which is funny to me. I've spent plenty of time at the LA Zoo's orangutan...
That's...not at all true. Since I've been following SeaWorld happenings in the past decade they've been perfectly candid when whales pass, and in...
Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but is the Africa Tram reopened yet?
I must say I find this comment especially irritating because of the lack of reading comprehension on your part. Nothing in any of my replies to...
What a shame that, after specifically mentioning the number of ways that cetacean captivity changed people's opinions and had a global effect, you...
I'll be honest, this post is not particularly relevant and doesn't really affect my overall point that cetaceans in captivity change people's...
I thought theirs was a really perplexing point for someone on ZooChat to make. Especially when they said the animals drain money for "the care of...
There's a lot wrong with this. Let's start with the obvious. "Orcas in captivity live to be 30 years old at the oldest". Fascinating! Someone...
The LA Zoo keeps a number of California Condors off-exhibit, some are rescues and get re-released, others I believe are permanent residents. They...
If you look at Vienna, the buildings are attractive and have historical value. The buildings being torn down in LA are from the 1960s, are...
A lot of the zoo's infrastructure is going to be reused, and the more recent exhibits are being kept, but I don't really see how reuse is a...
As mentioned above, I think LA Zoo would really be the best answer to this thread. None of the other master plans go to remotely the same lengths...
I don't know about this one. For the past few years, I've been visiting the Zoo and Safari Park once every two months, and I really feel like the...
I highly doubt you got this one straight from the trainers (and if you did, you were lied to) because it's verifiably false. First of all, and...
Unless captive elephants now exceed wild elephants in terms of lifespan, this is irrelevant to my overall point.
Consider the most common arguments against keeping cetaceans in captivity, and you can apply most of them to one or more of these 3 as well....
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