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jumpingjacktrash:roachpatrol:jumpingjacktrash:the-real-seebs:zooophagous:mooseings:braineaterz:mooseings:The Minnesota Zoo did a photo series of Zookeepers as Animals for National Zookeeper Week and it’s hilarious! (Source)thats a good idea actually: free the animals caged against their will in an unfamiliar environment and replace them with shitty humansWow that’s a really rude thing to say about people who have dedicated their entire lives to looking after these animals and making sure their lives are as fulfilled and enriching as possible. These animals are not “caged”, they’re living in comfortable enclosures with all their needs provided to them. I don’t know a lot about the Minnesota Zoo but their enclosures are definitely not cages. And no, you can’t free these animals. They’ve lived their entire lives under human care and freeing them would kill them. But sure you continue to believe that animal behaviour is exactly like a Disney Movie where animals sit in cages and dream of freedom and where learning history isn’t a thing and where ~natural wild instinct~ switches on at the click of a button :)))Take your misinformed, anthropomorphic rubbish elsewhere thankshttp://mnzoo.org/animals/care-enrichment/Those “shitty humans” do more for endangered wildlife than edgy ar activists ever will. That zoo has a breeding population of Przewalskis wild horses, an animal so persecuted that it was EXTINCT except in zoos, and thanks to ZOOS it still exists and thanks to zoos we were able to put some back into the wild where a few small herds are now growing again.Why do you hate wild horses so much and want them to go extinct yo?The MN Zoo is one of the reasons why zoos are now mostly doing their best to provide comfortable native habitats for animals. Because they started doing it and it was amazing.i reblogged the nice version without the jerk, but i’ve decided to add to this thread too: in addition to all their great conservation and education work, the minnesota zoo does not cage animals.i’ve been going to the minnesota zoo since i was a little kid and have never seen a single cage. nor a ‘cage’ – that is, too-small enclosure, little glass box, what have you – or listless, unwell animals. the display areas where people can get close to tigers and whatnot are just a small part of the habitat where feeding and other enticing activities occur. if the animals don’t want to be there, they can exit to the larger area that guests can’t see.funny thing though, i’ve never seen one of those totally empty, because the animals like looking at the people too. they’re curious. you won’t see all the animals out there all the time (yeah they don’t keep them in isolation, they have their pack/family/whatever) but usually somebody’s out there chilling, playing with enrichment toys, and people watching.the animals that need even bigger ranges have them. you view those animals by taking a monoral through a HUGE open park. sometimes you see some zebras and sometimes you don’t; they don’t seem to give a damn about the monorail so they don’t hang around to watch it. they roam about and do their thing.it’s not Real True Freedom, no, but i suggest you hold off on deciding whether an animal prefers that abstract concept to fifty fenced acres with no predators or diseases until you can fucking ASK them, you anthropomorphizing, arrogant, woolly-headed, self-important jackass. thank you.my suggestion for dealing with this nonsense: when airheads insist on ‘freeing’ zoo animals, let’s start with the arthropods, and release them into the airhead’s bedroom. no, i take that back. i like arthropods too much to subject them to it.i always thought it would be fun to kidnap the FREE THE ANIMALS type activists from their much too small offices, drive them out to the middle of the nearest prairie wilderness, and leave them therehonestly, their whole deal is predicated on this idea that humans aren’t animals. that animals are Pure and Free, and humans are corruption incarnate. which is utterly self-aggrandizing. (humans are apes. learn to love it.) and at the same time, anthropomorphizing animals into this creepy saccharine sentience with completely human motives.you know where ‘freedom to ditch my support network and take huge risks’ comes on the hierarchy of needs? waaaaaaay at the tippy top. only the most privileged of humans seek it out. and that’s the motivation they’re ascribing to. like. sloths.you know what sloths want? sunshine, safety, and chewy leafs. so i definitely advocate freeing peta heads into the wild, not only because turnabout is fair play, but also because maybe being hungry, thirsty, covered with poison ivy and ticks, and lonely as hell will suggest to them that ANIMALS PROBABLY DON’T ENJOY IT EITHER.(because i am not a complete monster, i would have to hang around and make sure they didn’t actually get seriously hurt tho, which is kind of a time commitment. maybe bear grylls is up for it.) -- source link