Reply #3: That sounds awful! [View All]

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The gorilla enclosure at the Santa Barbara Zoo (which is a small zoo, but with a big budget), is quite nice and lush with lots of places the Gorillas (2) can get away from the public eye (which they do often).

But even that's a little iffy for me - every time I see them I think they should be at school, not in a zoo.

The San Diego Wild Animal Park was originally created as a breeding area for the San Diego Zoo (and others). It's really quite impressive, particularly since most of it is completely open savanna (?). Anyway, I think most good zoos get their animals from breeding programs not captured from the wild.

The big scandal in the Eureka Zoo in Humbodt County (California) was that they were renovating the bear enclosure, so they had to move the bears, but nobody would take them in the meantime (because they're so common), so they actually shot them. That's the craziest thihng I've ever heard. Needless to say I've never been there.

david