It is a beautiful rainy day today. I love the rain. It is peaceful. Water brings life. Lots of controversy starting to brew over a proposed wilderness designation out here in the West. Also, it is a great day for not hunting! It's also a nice day to finish my homework-I have 800+ pages of information on bear management history that I have to cram into a 10-page paper. It seems impossible at this point.
Go to this site and watch the Sun Bear video. It is neat how the mom picks up the cub and carries it like a human at one point. When people see a "Bigfoot" they are probably seeing a bear walking upright in the woods.
www.sandiegozoo.org/videos/indexbaby.html
Monday, April 23, 2007
A Nice Spring Day
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Sounds like you will have to give your homework a BIG "bear hug" to fit it all in :}
Cool video of the sun bear... I had considered putting it on my blog but I have not found a good wild image, they are considered vulnerable.
What do you think of animals in captivity?
I think a lot about this subject, always with mixed emotions. I could write a book on my thoughts about this. By captive animals I am speaking of those at zoos and the likes-still captive are those forced into circuses and sideshows and the likes but if I include all that I will not stop rambling tonight. Overall, I believe it is a bad thing. Wild animals should be left in their natural habitat. It is stupid to ship them around the world to unnatural places so people can gawk at them all day. It is sad and angering. It is sad when baby animals have to be born into captivity. They say the animals know nothing different then, but is this really true? I think not. Animals are always pacing the same paths of their cages. Bored I guess. Looking for something more. Instinct. I can't think of many zoo animals I have ever seen looking happy. Animals know stuff instinctively. All these captive animals are tranquilized to be shipped, poked and prodded, measured and checked, never left alone to just be themselves. I see a wolf pack at the zoo out here confined to one tiny caged area. Wolves are pack animals, they are predators, they need space and no zoo can provide that. Soon some abandonded bear cubs are coming. They say they can'y be released back into the wild. Why not? We should raise them until they can support themselves and then turn them loose to do the best they can. What good is it to pandas if all of them have to stay captive? On the other hand, having some animals is better than total extinction. That when when people wake up and get off this captive animal kick, the animals may still have a chance. We think we are "saving" thse animals but captivity has done more harm than good by a long shot. Even I visit the zoo once in a while, but I can say for a fact that I never leave happy. This force breeding and artificial insemination is horrible, too. Captive animals are not breeding for reasons. They know what's up. They don't want more of their own suffering. The blind dolphin is also a win/lose situation. That is nice that we can help this dolphin survive but now its poor baby will be forced to remain captive even as a competent adult that can be released. Plus, the blind dolphin is now the proverbial guinea pig, subject to all kinds of unnecessary stuff. I feel bad when animals die or are injured and I do cry for them but God gave us natural selection for a reason whether we like it or not. We think we are everything's savior, but we forget who really is. It will be a sad world when the only animals left are in captivity.
I forgot to mention captive animals used for science and product testing. Also some pets may be considered captive. I think cats and dogs have been domesticated long enough now to not consider tham captive but there are many other pets that are captive like all these exotic ones that have no business being a pet in the first place. But like I said , I will stick to captive zoo animals for now or I will keep on going until I get nothing else done today. Keep wild animals free and wild.
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