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Originally Posted by terminator
So to all the advocates of zoos or partcularly the calgary zoo:
Do you believe the Tigers live a happy life? What about the pacing brown bear? Or the eagle that has never stretched its wings?
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As much as a Tiger or Bear can feel the human-qualified emotion of joy I suppose.
Does the same Tiger feel this human emotion when it's being hunted in the wild? Or starving as it looks to find it's next meal? Or while it dies, slowly and naturally, from some wound it incurred in the wild?
Do Tigers dream? What is life? Do we know that an animal experiences joy when it hunts? That it appreciated the concept of space?
Why the (Lions and) Tigers and Bears? What about the fish? What about the snakes? What about the weird birds? The stupid sloth? The spiders? The gross gross spiders?
I think the Zoos does a great job caring for the animals, and does a lot of good in the conservation of species and the scientific work they do.