Animals That Simply Don't Interest You

If I may ask, why the Surinam toad?

 

It just feels off to me compared to other animals, alongside the holes in its back making it hard for me to look at this animal for longer than a few seconds

 

I've gotta be honest, I'm a frickin' peasant. I love seeing every animal in captivity except the ones that are extremely Blackfished (Seaworld, lookin' at you)

 

? Did you actually believe that documentary of lies?

 

No, I just used it as an example. I still don't like Seaworld >:C

 

Ok well would you like to take in injured/stranded cetaceans for rehabilitation or rehoming purposes?

~Thylo

 

I got to agree with you on that one

 

I don't get that excited seeing domestic livestock in a zoo, hence why I avoid any sheep/goat petting areas at zoos that have them.
I'm also not really enthusiastic about grizzly bears; I like seeing them, but other bear species pique my interest more, like spectacled bears.

 

Sure

I'm aware of the good work SeaWorld does, but I still don't like their orca/cetacean program

 

I'm not a fan of those either.

 

I agree but I usually check them out because every once in a while a zoo will sneak something odd into the farm areas.

~Thylo

 

What do you want them to do? Their Orcas are non-breeding afaik and most of their cetaceans are rescues, do you want them to euthanize them all or something??

~Thylo

 

I always check them as well for that exact reason.

 

What kind of surprises have you seen in petting barnyards?

 

Beardsley Zoo keeps porcupine, Snowy Owl, Great Horned Owl, American Barn Owl, Ocellated Turkey, raven, various waterfowl, several exotic invertebrates, and a variety of American herps in their petting zoo area. In the recent past they kept Diamondback Terrapin and opossum here as well.

~Thylo

 

Interesting. Actually, if I remember right, I saw what I'm pretty sure was a Visayan warty pig nearby the petting barnyard at the Phoenix Zoo.

 

Dallas Zoo has a Six-Banded Armadillo and an aviary with fig-parrot and other birds in theirs as well.

At LA if you skip the children's playground you'll miss the Visayan Warty Pig and Calamian Deer.

~Thylo

 

Regardless of opinions on cetacean captivity, most of SeaWorld's cetaceans are not rescues. Unless Cetabase is completely off-base on their records, the vast majority of the current animals were born in captivity with only a few rescued animals among them.

Also, to avoid derailment, I'm just not that big of a fan of monkeys or most apes. I don't hate them, and I'm at least fond of gorillas, but I don't really get excited about them. Something about the uncanny valley, I think. I'm not entirely comfortable with "too-human" animals.

 

My fault for lack of clarity, I mean any new cetaceans which come in (which will include the occasional rehabilitation and release animals) should be rescues if I'm not mistaken. The bottlenose dolphins will be captive bred mostly I think, and the Orcas will be wild caught, but aren't the pilot whales and other species at the other SeaWorld's rescued individuals? If not then I was mistaken.

~Thylo

 

You're correct in that case. Yes, the pilot whales in Orlando and San Diego are rescued, and it looks like San Antonio has some bottlenoses and a beluga classed as rescued.