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Can we get a campaign going to shut down SeaQuest

Reddit Animals

This was the same for many other of the animals there: potbelly pigs, a sad otter, rabbits, chickens and Bengal cats. The zoo also allows patrons to pay to interact with certain animals, allowing kids to flop around with them in enclosures. They were cowering together under a bright light for all the passersby to balk at.

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Cause an Uproar

4 The Love Of Animals

Like so many of you, we love the majestic big cats in the world. Big cats in the world need our help. Everything from lions in Kenya to snow leopards in the Himalaya, the big cats all need our help. So of course we wanted to help spread the word about the Cause an Uproar initiative.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

27): It’s little wonder that Tatiana, the tiger that escaped from the San Francisco Zoo, longed for her freedom. An Oxford University study published in the journal Nature found that wide-ranging carnivores like tigers and other big cats “show the most evidence of stress and/or psychological dysfunction in captivity.”

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

One of the first examples I ever encountered was in the books of Gerald Durrell, the famous conservationist who was an early pioneer of the roles of zoos in conservation. He often defended that role in his books from animal rights activists who opposed “imprisoning” animals in zoos even if it saved them from extinction.