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FR
at Tue Aug 14 09:56:29 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
Your priviliged to choose the good zoo folks, yet as private keepers, we are stuck with the bad ones. No one ever said there was only one type.
Like here, the squeaky wheel is what gets heard. So in the news, we see zoo official after zoo official hacking of some stupid jeck that let his burn eat his, pick one, goat, dog, kid, etc.
And you know as well as I, that OFFICIAL zoo protocal does not let excess animals into private hands. PERIOD. Which in fact is the center of the discussion "conservation" Zoos do not have the power to house animals in sufficent numbers to actually perform conservation. They only have the power to acquire and house a gene holder. And zoos refuse to use their biggist resource, the public. The public will have to be the base or you will fail. As you are powerless to perform.
As you know as a public educator(something you boast of) you teach people throught envolvement, not throught exclusion. A common teaching tool, to envolve. Sadly zoos keep that gun in their holster, WHY?
So you exclude the public(private keepers) and whine and cry that we are different then you.
That practice came back to bite zoos square on the bum. Now the private sector is running circles around zoos in the actual understanding of reptile reproductive biology. As you say, the good ones left and became the private sector. If zoos were progressive and up to date, THEY WOULD HAVE STAYED.
Any bets you will leave soon too?????????? As you appear progressive. You will soon tire of lack of progress. Cheers
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RE: This is the point. - FR, Tue Aug 14 09:56:29 2007