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Originally Posted by cam_wmh
Please expand on this. Do zoo/rehabilitated tigers not take to being reintroduced to the wild?
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I will concede that tigers are som eof the most adaptable animals and most likely of zoo animals to be reintroduced into the wild. However, these animals are also prone to venturing in to human areas and attacking humans thus its a catch 22.
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Originally Posted by Chill Cosby
I'm going to echo Outofthecube here and ask you to expand on this with two questions:
How is an animal destroyed by man better than an animal in the zoo (and how does this relate back to your concern with animal happiness/what is the chemical evidence behind death producing more endorphins than years of captive life)?
What purpose(s) that zoos provide have been replaced by other, more "modern" institutions?
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I think I'll answer Q2 first. The proliferation of documentaries and the interwebs actually prove a much more beneficial view of these animals. You can see them in the wild doing what they do rather then chilling in a jail cell were you can watch them pace.
I see with Q1 you are trying to use science, but that is illogical, as a scientist I will say that it is the lack of negative chemical reactions in the brain that makes death more appeasing for these animals. Further we must combat our ethical and moral situation. We save 1 animal so that we can perpetuate captive breeding? Its moving towards increased domestication.