@[email protected] to [email protected] • edit-27 months agoIn 2007, after one of their gorillas, Bokito, escaped and attacked a women who stared at him every day, the Rotterdam Zoo started handing out glasses that tricked the gorillas to avoid starefiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1394arrow-down113file-text
arrow-up1381arrow-down1imageIn 2007, after one of their gorillas, Bokito, escaped and attacked a women who stared at him every day, the Rotterdam Zoo started handing out glasses that tricked the gorillas to avoid starefiles.catbox.moe@[email protected] to [email protected] • edit-27 months agomessage-square84fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-5•7 months ago Well how else would you suggest people come in contact with the wildlife of this world? By going to their habitats? obviously critical in making people care about protecting it No. Zoos are not critical in making people care about protecting wildlife.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•7 months agoTaking tourists into natural habitats is way more destructive than having a few specimens on display in artificial habitats.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-2•edit-27 months agoI’m not talking about tourists viewing exotic animals from far off places, I’m talking about people going into the countryside that’s near to them and seeing the wildlife there.
By going to their habitats?
No. Zoos are not critical in making people care about protecting wildlife.
Taking tourists into natural habitats is way more destructive than having a few specimens on display in artificial habitats.
I’m not talking about tourists viewing exotic animals from far off places, I’m talking about people going into the countryside that’s near to them and seeing the wildlife there.