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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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The tigers in the Calgary zoo are part of a breeding program designed to preserve the genetic diversity of tigers to prevent extinction and enable the release of cubs back into the wild. So a better questions is should tigers be extinct or in zoos.
As for their happiness they appear as happy as my cat. They pace, hunt things, pounce on things lie in the sun on their backs. They do not appear afraid or stressed. They appear to be well fed.
The eagles I believe are rescues, as are all of the bears. In fact there are bear cubs euthanized every year because there are not enough zoos to take them.
The days of going to the wild and capturing animals for zoos are essentially over in modern zoos. So it goes back to the question of do you want these particular animals to exist in a zoo or be euthanized/not be born.