Zoos are struggling as the sentiment against captive animals increases. Some are turning the zoos into information centres without animals.

    • Switorik@lemmy.zip
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      10 months ago

      Do you own any pets? What are your thoughts on keeping them inside your dwelling for your amusement?

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        10 months ago

        Keeping animals that have been bred into domestication over thousands of years is different than catching a wild animal and putting it in an enclosure. Corgies don’t wish they were out in the wild hunting deer, they want people to pet them. Tigers don’t want to be pet no matter how nice the magicians are.

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        10 months ago

        It’s not amusement. It’s company. They become part of the family and are treated as such. It’s far from the treatment animals get in zoos and they’re fam from being wild animals, too. As someone else pointed out, these are domesticated animals.