This is a totally wrong statement in addition to being total nonsense.



There are many zoos which deal with the private sector and in a very successful manner.



The policy zoos develope are conceived locally and there does not seem to be a standard policy.



This debated rages on between zoos themselves as to whether they should deal with the public or not and from what I can see they are pretty much evenly split.







>>Vic and Mayday – Of course zoos will never sell or let a member of the public keep any animals – they will loose their significance in the world. (Read if public keep the same animals as the zoo then they why go to a zoo). Also the zoos want to be classed as the “expert”. I have seen them having so much trouble breeding many types of animals – clearly because the animals are not getting the right nutrition or environment.

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>>Zoos drive animals to extinction – they want their animals to be as hard to get as possible - that way they will be the experts and leaders of their own empire.

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>>If an animal is having trouble in the wild then keeping them as a pet- that way the animal’s will be kept for our children. But with zoos trying to keep them out of the hands of the public then there is no hope.
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Ed @ Tortoise Keepers

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