Dallas zoos painted dog Ola has been killed by her pack mates Dallas Zoo's new African painted dogs kill packmate | Dallas Zoo | Dallas News
That article is behind a paywall for me, here's another: African Painted Dogs at Dallas Zoo Kill Packmate It sounds like it was just a brief squabble that unfortunately injured her in a way that caused her to die At least it sounds like it was rather quick, rather than something prolonged.
Just what the zoo needs during a time of tragedy: slander! Dallas Zoo figures prominently in New York Times expose on elephants
God, that Times article was horrible. Nearly all the quotes from the anti-captivity side were from attorneys the AR folks hired to stop the import. All the quotes from zoo executives are cherry-picked and misconstrued to make it seem like he zoos snuck the elephants out of the country because they are greedy and massively underestimates the impact that the money raised by zoos towards conservation has. And this article from CultureMap makes it seem like the author got all the evidence and has the full story when in reality, the bias is blatant even as the author tries to hide behind “four years of research”. What trash. People like this need to look at the bigger picture. 76 elephants have died in AZA zoos in 20 years? 96 elephants die EVERY DAY in the wild! Where is the real outrage?
"Four years" of research doesn't mean anything when you've only talked to people on one side and came into it with a crazy bias already
Sadly, ur right. But if the New York Times thinks Dallas Zoo is horrible for rescuing elephants that would’ve otherwise DIED than let them. All of us Zoochaters know what would’ve happened to those elephants if it weren’t for zoos like Dallas.
Until today, I thought that the New York Times was a fair, correct and trustfull newspaper. I'm very disappointed about this EXTREMELY one-sided article....
Yellow journalism at its finest, written by a group of yellow individuals. (Definition of yellow as an adjective meaning cowardly). Dallas deserves better after Witten and Ola's untimely deaths, and kicking an individual while they're down is the ultimate cowardly move. Beyond cowardice and beyond every syllable behind the term and the definition of the term "yellow".
For basic news and politics, yes. For opinion and things that really require more research to speak on, especially sciences, not so much
It wouldn't be slander, it would be libel. One is spoken, the other is published. Not that I agree with the sentiment though. I disagree with some of the more outlandish claims (like mothers committing infanticide because they 'know better'), but the core issue of how the zoos are acquiring wild caught elephants leaves me deeply conflicted.
I hope this is the right thread to ask this, as it relates to a Dallas Zoo trip some years back...perhaps 5 years ago? there were a row of primate cages and I could swear I recall a uakari. But I can't find anything about uakari at Dallas now or in the past online. Can anyone help me out? Were there uakari, and what species?
I know of no uakaris currently outside or South America, with Los Angeles being the only exception. I assume no zoos exhibit them in Central America?
I am fairly certain there have never been uakari on exhibit at the Dallas Zoo. However, at one time there were Bolivian Gray Titi Monkeys in that row of exhibits.
As far as I know, the only uakari who have been in captivity or on exhibit in the United States in the last 5 years should be at Los Angeles Zoo.
