12-09-2004, 02:38 PM
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Location: Edmonton, AB (West)
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Originally Posted by Beverly
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Originally Posted by Fish
I mean really, our concern for an elephant in the zoo or even all the elephants in Africa is not motivated by any sort of benefit to ourselves because, as a species, we do not rely on the elephant for anything.
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Actually, we subconsciously rely on the knowledge that elephants still exist on our planet to relieve ourselves of the guilt we would feel if elephants, along with other well known species, were inadvertantly killed by our aggressive human expansionism.
Humans are the only animals on the planet that keep other animals in zoos. There are two elephants at the Edmonton Valley Zoo. Every time I've seen them, they and the other animals looked so sad in their relatively small enclosures, that I had to stop going to the zoo. Can you imagine yourself as an animal in a zoo? I mean, honestly see yourself caged in surroundings not of your choosing, being fed food not of your choosing, and being without others of your own kind, such as friends and family? |
Bev,
If this is how you feel how is keeping fish in a glass box any different? 
I don't think they choose to live there either...
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