Enough is enough...the Calgary Zoo needs

[EmilyB]

help or shut it down:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...hub=TopStories

[Treebeard]

Looks to me like a freak accident. How many children have died from accidents with toys, cribs, etc that have found to be unsafe and recalled after the fact?

[i have crabs]

i agree with it being an accident, and zoo's should not be shut down anymore than all of our tanks should be

how many wild animals get crappy care and are bought knowing they have almost no chance of long term survival.

[sphelps]

Yeah I think you're over reacting, accidents happen. You can't say they didn't care or try, they gave CPR to a goat! That's more than I would do.

Zoos are somewhat cruel places for animals but that's the price of entertainment. However I also believe good also comes from it in the form of research.

[lorenz0]

If you think the calgary zoo is bad there is alot worse. There was a zoo in between edmonton and calgary with tigers and stuff, from what i have heard it was disgusting and many lawsuits were filed against the place.

For sure looks like a freak accident. if you read the last artical they talk about the animals that have died... now the stingray incident, we all should know what over loading a system does or what ever happened.

[justinl]

does the calgary zoo contribute to research?

[levi1803]

Originally Posted by justinl

does the calgary zoo contribute to research?

The Calgary zoo contributes a lot to research, species survival and the well being of many animals, they also have one of the most succesfull breeding programs for Canada most endangered species the Vancouver Island Marmot. All in all I think this was a freak accident and will continue supporting them and all the fantastic work that they do.

[justinl]

Originally Posted by levi1803

The Calgary zoo contributes a lot to research, species survival and the well being of many animals, they also have one of the most succesfull breeding programs for Canada most endangered species the Vancouver Island Marmot. All in all I think this was a freak accident and will continue supporting them and all the fantastic work that they do.

fair enough, that's a plus for them in my books. I am not a fan of institutions that are pure tourist attractions.

this particular case seems like a freak accident to me and the article's subject (some random woman) doesn't strike me as someone who knows the inner workings of what went down that day. She (or the media portrays her to) assumes that the zoo's vet staff took too long to get to the enclosure... but how can she know that, if she wasn't there? the staff were already performing CPR by the time she got back!

the article also chooses to forget a few details in this little segment "In November of last year, an elephant calf died from a virus. And last May, 41 stingrays mysteriously died. In 2006, four gorillas died, including a baby less than two weeks old. Two years before that, a three-week-old elephant died after being rejected by its mother." the elephant rejection was not something they could control to any degree; that's mum's responsability. I am not sure how sanitary their facility is but, in captivity, babies die. sad, but that's all there is to it, so you can't point fingers at the calgary zoo in particular because it happens everywhere; you just don't hear about it. Did anyone ever follow up on the rays? im still curious about that one. my point is that we don't know any of the details to these occurences. so we can't pass judgement on the zoo, good or bad, based on them.

[hillbillyreefer]

I have a question for all the people who are upset about this. Have you NEVER, EVER had an animal die in your own private zoo? If you haven't then congratulations, if you have then what is the difference? The only one I see is that the Calgary Zoo has professionals on staff to care for the animals, while us hobbiests are rank amateurs.

[Snaz]

I have been to Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver Zoos and by far my favourite is Calgary.