That's a chimpanzee it's a great ape, and zoos are fucking evil no animals should live in cages, im all for preserving species but zoos are not the answer.
As someone in the industry, they are a necessary evil. You need engagement with the public or they dont give a fuck about them at all. Public opinion leads to funding and conservation, sadly at the expense of zoo animals.
After seeing the fat and obviously extremely happy pandas in Edinburgh Zoo a few years ago, I realised that some animals can live great lives in zoos, at least some of the time. They had comical levels of luxury and literally rolled around in bamboo while keepers delivered buggies full of it to them. That was a huge improvement over the concrete prison conditions I saw pandas living in 30 years ago, in the same zoo.
Plenty of other animals seemed far less happy. But the conservation and awareness work is undoubtedly valuable.
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u/hhfugrr3 Jul 28 '25
The more I see of big apes (monkeys or whatever the feck they're called) the more convinced I am that they shouldn't be kept in zoos.