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Top 5 Shocking Zoo Facts


for the average family a trip to the zoo
leads to a greater understanding of the
animal kingdom but that conversation is
limited to just human beings welcome to
watchmojo.com Stallman twork counting
down the top five most interesting and
somewhat damning facts that you probably
didn’t know about zoos number five
elephants adapt poorly to zoo life in
the wild the primary goal is survival so
with the necessities of survival
provided for them in zoos you might
expect animals to have on average longer
lifespans in zoos and you’d be right
many animals including dolphins and
tigers tend to have longer lives in zoos
than in the wild but zoo life can be
especially hazardous for wild elephants
forced into captivity in fact according
to some published research African
elephants typically reach their 50s out
in the wild as compared to a predicted
lifespan of 17 years when born inside a
zoo there’s no clear-cut reason for this
but researchers have noted that 40% of
African elephants in zoos are obese more
research is needed on the cause and
effect of this surplus weight but it’s
clear that something is detrimental e
affecting the formative years of
elephants while caged up number 4 there
sure are some zany and horrible zoos in
China China a land with millennia of
cultural history but also the place
where unlicensed attractions like this
Disneyland knockoff can somehow exist
have you ever heard of boxing bear cubs
wearing capes well this happened at a
xi’an zoo in 2007 and then there’s this
young sand tiger and bear park which is
reportedly just a front for making Tiger
bone wine but at least they do have
actual tigers and bears I guess a zoo in
China’s Henan Province misrepresented
their animals entirely ranging from the
Tibetan Mastiffs posed as an African
lion to some other dogs portraying
leopards of course just as Shanghai now
has its own bonafide Disney theme park
China also has some legit zoos
furthermore these instances of animal
abuse in China received some attention
because they are kind of wacky but less
interesting downright tragic forms of
neglect and abuse are quietly reported
at various zoos around
world number three animal relocation
disrupt pack units
no no cats can to transfer it’s a zoo
transfers you transfer zoos like any
other tourist destination will often
advertise new attractions this often
means that they’ve taken custody of a
new animal probably from another zoo
animals are often shipped from one zoo
to another either for mating purposes or
just for straight-up marketing purposes
just as humans will agree when taken
away from their family the same goes for
PAC units and zoos many animals
particularly primates have complex
social structures and don’t take kindly
to the introduction of outsiders while
overt symptoms of anxiety can be clear
it’s often no easy task to gauge the
severity of depression in zoo animals
removed from their pack units it’s great
I get it
this whole spiritual journey and we’re
all in cages man I love it number two
drug lords like having their own zoos
it’s still unclear at this time whether
gunman did in fact take off with a tiger
cage and all from the circus in
Matamoros in the 1980s cocaine kingpin
Pablo Escobar’s famously imported all
kinds of animals to his ranch near
Medellin Colombia apparently he started
a trend in 2011 approximately fifty five
hundred animals were seized from zoos
owned by Mexican gangs while incredibly
Escobar bought some animals from the San
Diego Zoo many others are purchased on
the black market often arriving there
via cub nabbing seizo Huaraz comedic
avocados undercover recanted Itzik well
enough in Cairo table this is a practice
in which animals are stolen from zoos at
young ages when they are less inclined
to act out not only just cub nap and
lead to even more psychological damage
the animals in question but the whole
unsanctioned illegal zoo concept can
introduce invasive species into
ecosystems the largest herd of hippos
outside of Africa now haunt the village
and countryside near Escobar’s old
branch everybody everyone as you say
we’re looking above it pork you are not
the model do there could be human losses
and I’m sure there will be because they
will take over the river as their
territory
number one zoos plus psychosis equals
zoo kosis
this is Buster he’s our 650-pound North
American grizzly he was 770 but uh but
he’s been stressed out you know he’s
Moody despite the best efforts of zoos
and the dedicated zoo keepers that take
proper care of the inhabitants and
despite whatever benefit zoos might
ultimately have wild animals were not
meant to be caged up weight among paxil
but can’t afford it so he’s occasionally
depressed ended this confinement that
leads to zoo kosis it’s impossible to
gauge the levels of depression but the
anxiety stems from the disruption of the
animals normal lives it’s not uncommon
for humans to gawk at so-called funny
behavior Oh like bears who paced back
and forth endlessly or predators who
lash out at visitors from behind glass
walls but these behaviors are often
signs of severe emotional damage and so
if toys and puzzles don’t settle down
zoo animals they are treated with a
whole range of psychopharmaceuticals
zoloft prozac Haldol xanax valium you
name it there’s a case of zoo kosis
that’s been treated by it hey there
buster
are you missing the meds whoa well I
feel awful what back surprises you the
most do you think zoos do more good than
harm for more kingpin toptenz and
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