Yes, I get weird, when I make an attempt to figure out why folks do not want to help, add to, benefit, their captives. This dives deep in to "Psychology today" The number of reasons, the range of reasons etc of why keepers will not do something so easy. As a zoo builder and designer, early zoo's were prison cell, in design. Prison, is an punishment by control. Its punitive, to punish, by taking all control away from a person. Its based on fear. In the case of zoo's the fear of something wild and dangerous. As WILD animals were, less wild, lets say limited in nature. Zoo's moved into a direction of adding some freedom to cages. Freedom is allowing the animals some control. Then to naturalistic enviornments, which allows the animals some more freedom and control. All in all, Its what people do.
If you look at reptile caging, the rack system extreme, is exactly what a prison cell does, it takes all control of the snake away and puts it in the wardens hands(keeper). If you look at it "third party" you would ask, what did the animals do to be punished like that. Every thing that's normal is taken away from them. Think about it, everything. Nothing that's in their normal life is in there. A prison cell to punish.
Please folks, the animals did no wrong, there is no reason to punish them. What people enjoy about this type setup is, the results of their control. The "it worked". My mean arse reply to that is, so what, we figured out how to torture snakes successfully about 45 years ago. How about moving on from there. You see, that was my surprise. In forty five years, private keeping has gotten worse, not better.
Or is it FEAR, folks seem to have this, "fear of failure" so they are afraid to, "give to" the animals. To change from full control may cause failure.
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