Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

The zoo, surely, carries responsibility for deficiencies in its enclosure. In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? In my opinion, neither Harambe nor the child should ever have been at the zoo. Finally, what of the audience?

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Los Angeles Gorillas Zoos Non Human 40

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8).

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Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 19, 2008

At the risk of being a killjoy, let me say that there should ( morally ) be no zoos. Like humans, they have a right to liberty. Mark Spahn sent a link to this blog. Wild animals belong in the wild. They do not exist for our amusement, entertainment, or education.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo.

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. We’re all connected through email and listservs, and we all swap information and provide each other with moral support.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

I will address two of them in the new year, namely, “Is hunting moral at all?” The way things should be is a very powerful motivating factor in human lives. Perhaps it would be better to move the tigers to that bigger reserve, or maybe a zoo. A hungry child should be fed. And embattled minority should be protected.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. Strangely, the photo accompanying the Wikipedia entry on Collared Finchbills , Asian birds, was taken at Cincinnati zoo. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test.

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