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Originally Posted by Bs&Cs
When it comes to animal welfare, I appreciate the steps that Calgary Zoo has taken in the areas of conservation and their off site activities with whooping cranes, burrowing owls etc are admirable but they still has massive issues with zoo layout, ie cougars, bears and wolves in eyeshot of moose and deer, ditto for lions and zebras. These issues were raised during the last renovations and not addressed, so I'm not sure how much better off most of the animals are off now besides maybe a modest upgrade in living space and a few extra woodchips. I remember the abject misery that that last polar bear seemed to be in before it died. I don't object to animals being moved on if thats whats deemed appropriate
By the end of that store's existence, it was the saddest place in town.
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For some reason I vividly remember an exhibit that had a glass case with all the confiscated items from delinquent kids that tortured the animals. Had like slingshot, blow darts, and some other nasty stuff. Would have been 1980's time frame. The display was there to tell you to please not shoot the animals with this stuff.
Kind of sad to think that used to happen enough they had to show the confiscated weapons. Hopefully people would slap any kid up the head doing that these days.