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Zoos
& Aquariums
'Secret'
Dolphin Slaughter Defies Protests
Boyd Harnell, Japan Times, feature — November
2005
Every year, an unknown number of healthy
young specimens are selected and removed from the killing
coves to be sold into the international dolphin captivity
industry, to be kept in aquariums, trained to perform
at dolphinariums or for swim-with-dolphin program...
Zoos
Using Drugs to Help Manage Anxious Animals
Jenni Laidman, Toledo Blade, feature — September
2005
In the last decade, zoos across the nation
have turned to antidepressants, tranquilizers, and
even antipsychotic drugs such as haloperidol, sold
as Haldol, to ease behavioral problems in zoo denizens...
Japan
Students Saving 'Nemo'
Independent Online New Zealand, feature — August 2005
The
school decided to breed the clown fish to prevent it
from being over-fished, a first for Japan on such a
large scale. Children
continue to be the biggest buyers of "Nemo"...
Free
Kei the Wolf
2005
On her own in a barren Concrete 7m x 5m enclosure
at Okinawa Kodomo no Kuni Zoo in Japan...
Elephant
Deaths Spur New Debate Over U.S. Zoos
Andrew Stern, Reuters, feature — Spring
2005
Zoo
elephants swaying back and forth, polar bears swimming
in endless circuits and manic monkeys grooming themselves
to baldness. Such
disturbed, trance-like behavior in some zoo animals
and the deaths of four elephants in the past year at
two U.S. zoos have sparked animal rights protests and
renewed a larger debate over the purpose of zoos...
It's
No Longer A (Traditional) Zoo Out There
Amanda Paulson, Christian Science Monitor,
feature — 2004
In
some ways, zoos have been responding to a new sensibility
for years...Conservation
and education have gotten increased emphasis...
A
Very Murky Business — Dolphin Captures
Paul Kenyan, The Independent, feature
— November 2004
Japan's
fishermen have begun their annual dolphin hunt. While
most will end up as sushi, marine parks are blamed
for perpetuating these brutal culls...
Aquarium
Fish 'Suffer Abuse and Ill-Health'
Severin Carrell, The Independent, investigation
— September 2004
The
society also claims that few aquariums are involved
in genuine marine conservation work, challenging a
key marketing claim by most of the businesses involved.
Caps alleges that more than 80 per cent of aquarium
animals are caught in the wild and are very rarely
used in breeding programmes to save endangered species...
Marine
Parks: Below the Surface
Sally Kestin, Sun-Sentinel, investigation
— May 2004
Dolphins
and whales have become so valuable, some worth up
to $5 million each, that attractions take out life
insurance and transport them worldwide for the chance
to breed more. About 2,335 marine mammals have been
moved one or more times, 11 animals, at least a dozen
times. Duke, a sea lion owned by a Mississippi company,
holds the record: 19 moves...
Pattern
of Mistakes Found in [DC] Zoo Deaths
Karlyn Barker, James Grimaldi, Washington
Post, investigation — 2003
A
review of thousands of pages of zoo reports shows
that records were changed or were incomplete in files
on eight animal deaths...
Zoos
and the End of Nature
Dr. Steve Best, commentary — 2003
The
zoo is a perfect microcosm of the postmodern world.
As we swim in a sea of simulated, pseudo-realities
of the National Entertainment State, where everything
from human bodies to national politics is faked and
contrived, why not simulate nature, wilderness, animal
behaviors, and entire species too?...
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