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DefinitelySteveIrwin , Jun Seita (not the actual photo) Report

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors One of our emus loves everyone and makes friends with any new keepers who visit him, and so by extension loves having guests around. With the zoo being closed, he became quite morose for a few days, not acting anything like his usually happy self, because all the new friends he makes everyday were gone. So his keepers began asking people from other departments to stop by, take pictures, point him out, basically act like he's the center of attention. The hilarious little diva has been loving it

Final score:

205points

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Clove Kentwell 4 years ago

That’s sweet that s/he did that.

41points

ttcube , Eric Kilby (not the actual photo) Report

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors Our city zoo is closed for visitors. However all the routine feeding activities are in place. Looks like some animals found it weird that there are no people around. The other day a fully grown white tiger started jumping like a puppy when he saw a few of us after two weeks of solitude.. that was a scene!

Final score:

198points

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BiLal Asif 4 years ago

Oooh poor kitty i feel u

51points

Itsnotironic444 , Kevin Dooley (not the actual photo) Report

Bored Panda contacted Rebecca Blanchard, the media manager at Zoological Society of London, to find out how life in London Zoo looks different now during the quarantine. The ZSL London Zoo closed to the public on 21 March for the first time since World War Two. The staff is now sending packages of perishable food from its Terrace Restaurant to nearby hospitals, and its car park is now open to NHS workers.

Rebecca explained that zookeepers aren’t able to work from home: “our 18,000 animals all need feeding and looking after every single day, no matter what’s happening in the rest of the world.” The staff is now cycling to work and live in the repurposed Zoo lodges, which have previously been home to visitors experiencing an overnight stay at the Zoo.

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors Our pandas are finally banging.

Final score:

181points

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Lauren Caswell 4 years ago

The pressure is finally off! They cn Netflix and chill

13points

Qicklash , Amad Nabil (not the actual photo) Report

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors I'm an aquarium keeper, and I've certainly noticed a change. Fish are not as stressed as they use to be, as there are no longer children stomping around and banging on glass screaming "NEMO, NEMO, ITS NEMO" at every clownfish. We brought some of our younger penguins down to let them watch the fish, and they were intrigued but confused as to why they couldn't catch them through the glass. Our octopus has become much more friendly as well, and instead of hiding all day from people, enjoys playing with small baby toys or solving food puzzles. Its been nice. I wish there were guidelines people had to sign to behave at zoos before entering, but at the same time, they are the lifeline we so desperately need to keep functioning.

Final score:

175points

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EHops 4 years ago

Life line or not it should be top priority to make sure the animals under our care after properly cared for.

99points

zoopest , Gertie Music (not the actual photo) Report

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors Our gorillas miss the people watching so they get a tv with movies set up for them, plus lots of extra enrichment

Final score:

165points

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MRK 4 years ago

Is he watching Chewbacca being interviewed?

77points

CursedUmbrella , Chris Fithall (not the actual photo) Report

The London Zoo staff is working hard to make sure life is as normal as possible for the animals and their routines are maintained. “Like always, Zookeepers have been dedicating their time to caring for the animals⁠—feeding, cleaning, carrying out daily training,” said Rebecca.

The zookeepers need to think up fun and creative new activities to keep animals stimulated. And some animals even get a chance to have a stroll outside the Zoo! “Where safely possible, we take animals like the llamas and Bactrian camels on their walks around the Zoo.”

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors Due to temporary staff cuts, they no longer have the people to regularly walk the wombats. Some of the wombats are holding the keepers personally responsible. Imagine having a 20 kg chunk of muscle with big rodent teeth mad at you.

Final score:

145points

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Karmadillo 4 years ago

I'll walk them!

57points

Im Fine 4 years ago

Me too

2points

Chrissy Neibarger 4 years ago

I would do that for free

9points

Spring Fisk 4 years ago

I want to walk a Wombat!

8points

Mimi Bee 4 years ago

I volunteer as tribute!

4points

cheetah 4 years ago

i would walk them XD they'r cute!

4points

GARRETT O'BANION 4 years ago

I see that everyday with my dog

4points

Azure Adams 4 years ago

sign me up

3points

Kat Rogers 4 years ago

OOOH, I WISH I LIVED NEAR BY SO I COULD WALK THEM!

2points

Cedo Nulli 4 years ago

oh my fkn god are you kidding me I would pay to walk wombats

2points

Karen Murray 4 years ago

hahahaha

2points

Lara Verne 4 years ago

Why didn't you tell me sooner, I'll walk them

2points

Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago

Be right over!

1point

Susan Hart 4 years ago

Please let me help w/ the animals!!!

0points

Lane Sherman 4 years ago

I'll walk them too!!!

0points

Margarita Fletes 4 years ago

Well they're trapped, as they're year round! Not mingling with their own and seeing the same thing day after day!

0points

Kim 4 years ago

😂😂❤️

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Kylie Stovall 4 years ago

fierce or not i would walk them,play with them ,feed them,pet them,and give them the attintion they need

0points

Holly King 4 years ago

Maybe chew proof balls. blocks they can chew on??

0points

How_you_like_meow , Jim Champion (not the actual photo) Report

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors A lot of the animals have noticed! We compare it to having 300 channels of cable TV to suddenly 10 channels. The apes, cats, and birds probably notice the most and get excited when any of us walk by. We actually have our firm instructions to take a regular walk around our big cat area because one of the snow leopards is sad from the lack of people calling him handsome daily.

Final score:

138points

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me 4 years ago

Hey handsome

51points

Frogchix08 , patrickkavanagh (not the actual photo) Report

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors For a lot of our animals, having the ability to interact with guests is actually extremely important. Even for primates to be able to play with kids through the glass, they are missing out on a lot of enrichment. Guests keep a lot of the monkeys entertained. I watch our guests all day long show our marmosets and capuchins selfie cameras and they LOVE to see their reflection. Guests will also show videos on their phones to animals and the monkeys totally enjoy it.

We have a rescue cockatoo named Row who sings “row row row your boat” to guests. When little kids dance and sing it to her, she gets really excited and feeds off their energy. So do our other cockatoos on exhibit. But now without guests to show off for, every now and then when it’s quiet we’ll hear her start “row row row...” and then she stop and huffs a bit and gets really quiet and sad because she has no one to sing to. Some of our animals REALLY miss having kids to show off for.

You also have to remember that animals in zoos for the most park have grown up totally accustomed to being around people 24/7. They’re not wild animals at all really. They’ve grown up in a very different social dynamic. Quite a few animals get noticeably depressed in the winter months every year when we have few guests, and then perk up in the spring when we get busy.

Final score:

135points

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Full Name 4 years ago

Zoos are not the evil places they once were at all, and so many of these animals are rescues and couldn't be released into the wild. That's great that some of them enjoy the visitors.

75points

Erosenthal , likeaduck (not the actual photo) Report

#10

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors I’m on day 25 of working at a closed zoo. I work with great apes, and their behavior has changed a bit. They are generally very interactive with the public, so they are seeking even more attention than usual from us. Some of them were suspicious at first of the overwhelming silence outside now. They were climbing up high and scanning the area looking for everyone. We are in a much larger park, and wild animals wander in all the time, but always scatter when the crowds roll in. Now, there’s bucks just walking around, raccoons and foxes out in the middle of the day. And the squirrels... my god, the squirrels.

Final score:

120points

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Moon Painter Girl 4 years ago

"The squirrels... my God, the squirrels."

65points

zooolady , Pete Markham (not the actual photo) Report

#11

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors I work with the ambassador animals, so they are animals that are very used to the public. Pretty much like what everyone else has said, the animals are mostly confused that there aren't any people. Our petting zoo animals in particular are super needy. The second they see or hear us they all come running over and start crying for attention. We're trying to give all the animals as much attention as possible, but we're down to a bare bones crew, so it's not as much as we would like.

What I wanted to add, though, because I think it's incredibly interesting, is that we are collecting fecal samples from some of the animals to be tested for cortisol levels, which is a pretty good indicator of stress levels. That way, when guests come back, we can take samples for comparison to see how much guests impact stress.

I think its really cool that we're taking this opportunity to see what we can learn about how guests impact the animals, and to see if there are potentially things we can do even better to improve the lives of the animals in our care. We were really hoping to do some behavioral studies too about things like activity levels, amount of the enclosure being utilized, etc. that are also important considerations for their welfare, but unfortunately we just don't have the time or staffing.

Final score:

120points

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K. 4 years ago

Thank you for being as descriptive as you can in this short post, and for doing a lot more work to maintain the levels of care.

57points

LindseyLee5 , Barry Skeates (not the actual photo) Report

#12

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors I don’t work at a zoo, but the horse farm I manage the horses won’t leave me alone while I’m in their pastures. Normally they’ll come up to say hi and get a nose kiss, but now I can’t get anything done cause they want all of my attention.

Final score:

115points

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Karen Murray 4 years ago

love

27points

veggievulture , Brian Gratwicke (not the actual photo) Report

#13

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors At my zoo, the capuchins can't have bamboo sticks because they stab it through the bars at guests. Guess who is now free to stab as much as they want now?

Final score:

115points

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ember avery 4 years ago

thats a hilarious visual

36points

kakyflakes , Johnathan Noechel‐Shunn (not the actual photo) Report

#14

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors Bird keeper here: the penguins weren’t sure it was really feeding time if no one was watching them... they’re a little bit exhibitionists. (Especially Hubig/Ocio. They’ve been caught going at it in front of the windows during public hours and then basically avoiding each other when we’re closed...) After a few days they adjusted.

However the parrots are demanding alllll the snuggles and attention, but heaven forbid one sees you snuggle someone else even if they JUST had their turn. So the macaws get to go on individual walks and get snuggles elsewhere so my ears don’t start bleeding from the screaming.

Final score:

113points

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Felicia Dale 4 years ago

I've been wondering about the birds especially parrots, and how they were adjusting. That's so funny about the penguins though. The more I read about them the more complex and social they seem. So cool!

28points

Jeyded , Mark Kent (not the actual photo) Report

#15

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors The wolves don't really have any change in behavior, they get enough interaction from us handlers when we take them for walks or brush them or sit in their enclosure to chill. Hopefully we can get private tours up and running soon so we can have a steady flow of donations. It goes to the good boys and girls.

Final score:

104points

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Up All Night 4 years ago

I had no idea they BRUSH wolves.

29points

antelopeunfolded , wikipedia (not the actual photo) Report

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Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors I work at a very well known and heavily visited zoo. I work with ambassador animals and it’s nice to get a chance to take animals to areas of the zoo they wouldn’t normally get a chance to go to because of traffic etc. BUT, the free ranging geese man.... they are getting mean and territorial. Literal bridge trolls. They might have the hardest time adjusting when all the people come back and they can’t control every pathway!

Final score:

95points

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Viviane 4 years ago

Maybe they can recruit the monkeys to stab guest with bamboo sticks.

97points

fleshcoloredbanana , Rob Mitchell (not the actual photo) Report

#17

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors Horse trainer/Barn manager here. My farm has 46 horses, about half are privately owned and boarded with us. Like most farms across the country we are completely shut down to all but essential staff. The horses are mostly pretty happy to eat, hang out, and do horse things. We keep our horses turned out 24/7, which helps them remain healthy, happy, moving, and socializing. They are starting to lose muscling at this point, with being worked/ridden. Months or years of conditioning just disappearing by the day. But it will come back once they are all in work again. But I can tell that they are missing human interaction. My personal riding horse was giving me the cold shoulder yesterday, probably because of the lack of attention. I have been trying to give the boarded horses extra attention, I am sure their owners are missing them terribly right now. They all seem to lean in a little more when I brush them these days.

Final score:

88points

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BiLal Asif 4 years ago

That's deeply saddening

30points

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#18

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors Depends on the species and even the individual animal. The kangaroos and wallabies who live in our walkthrough enclosure are loving the free roaming throughout the day and not having to stay off the paths, this is making finding them more difficult as they are moving away from there "normal" rest spots. This goes for all animals in interactive enclosures actually. Some of the birds are missing the attention. The wild ravens and seagulls are a bit upset about the lack of easy to steal food. The elephants are enjoying being able to come out for walks at anytime during the day as opposed to in the morning before opening.

jennabenna11 , wikipedia (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

88points

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Full Name 4 years ago

Never thought about the seagulls. Yeah, with empty beaches many of them are going to have to make some serious adjustments.

35points

thegoldensnitch9 , Duane Weller (not the actual photo) Report

#19

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors In our local zoo the apes started to miss the visitors so they brought in an artist in who's now just painting in the empty monkey house so the apes have someone to watch. They could tell they missed the visitors because they became very bored and are much more excited about the keepers than usual; apparently they watch the visitors as much as the other way around. The keepers now have to pay them more attention to and they also do stuff like hide food for them as a game Also: sorry for the confusion, I am not a Zookeeper myself but I live close by the zoo and it was in the local news and such

Final score:

82points

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Full Name 4 years ago

I wish I lived near a zoo. I'd volunteer photography services for sure.

20points

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#20

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors My girlfriend is a zookeeper and animal behaviorist. She says their animals are becoming stressed. One of their African Grey birds has been plucking his own feathers.

She also mentioned that because they can’t touch many of the animals due to the virus potentially spreading to another zookeeper, many of the animals are looking and acting depressive, not eating well, etc.

BanditRecon , Peter F. (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

76points

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Full Name 4 years ago

This makes me so sad. I think they are taking it too far if they can't touch an animal for fear of spreading it to another worker. Any animal showing signs of depression should get cuddles.

71points

PateranTika , Nik Mastroddi (not the actual photo) Report

#21

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors I am an animal conservationist and work daily in a closed zoo. We observed animals at our zoo are going out more, instead of willowing in their covered homes. It seems the less attention on them has caused unusual but good behavior. We've recorded that they consume more food than usual. Oh, and they screw more

Final score:

75points

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Spring Fisk 4 years ago

I consume more food than usual too,

47points

DemonInUrCloset , brokinhrt2 (not the actual photo) Report

#22

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors Our giraffes have gotten a bit suspicious without the guests being around. It seems to be really spooking them. The gorillas are happy though as they don't really like the guests so they are spending way more time outside which is nice.

Final score:

74points

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Pretty Pangolin 4 years ago

"Hoomin, what did you do with my pets? Bring them back!"

14points

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#23

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors I’ve been watching the Taronga Zoo cams and the seals definitely keep trying to look through the glass for people while the tigers will pace for 40 minutes straight in front of the viewing window.

smokeyhawthorne , Tambako The Jaguar (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

71points

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Full Name 4 years ago

Tigers are cats, so they're probably just doing it as a form of trolling. Soon as people come back they'll laugh and go back into hiding.

22points

sdooj , wikipedia (not the actual photo) Report

#24

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors Most of our animals are happy as long as we can keep their routines, feeding times etc. For some they need a little extra. We do public encounters with our koalas, wombats and snakes among others so we spend an hour or so a day cuddling and handling these animals to keep them happy. A few of hour koalas really fret if they don't get their cuddles. Otherwise we just try to continue to spend time with animals that are expecting human interaction and of course we can take things for walks around the place like I'm sure you've seen at other zoos. Our wombats love a run and sniff, dingoes as well.

Final score:

68points

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MagicalUnicorn 4 years ago

oh my! i love wombats <3

16points

FriedCockatoo , Mathias Appel (not the actual photo) Report

#25

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors Finally a thread I can answer!

Not a whole lot of change, but animals definitely missing out some enrichment of seeing guests, especially the otters that follow the kids in the glass under water. Takin, Maned wolves, bison, gibbons, BoPs, Lions, etc all are about the same. Some of our animals that are skittish have been standing closer to the fence where guests usually are (zebras, gazelle) which is nice.

It's kinda this weird balance of being both more and less stressed. On the one side, I don't have to worry about keeper talks or BTS tours and I have more time to get everything done and spend more time with animals. On the other side we're skeleton crewed and there's less of us to care for the whole zoo so I'm working a lot more in areas I don't usually cover as often.

There's one kangaroo that still tries to box me while the emu is shifting 🙄 The one peacock still really doesn't like taking his medications of course 🤷‍♂️

I have noticed that the crows in the city are behaving a bit differently as well and are being a lot braver lol

Final score:

66points

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Anna D 4 years ago

Gorgeous

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Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors I am a full-time zookeeper and it’s been difficult since we had to lay off all our seasonal/part time help. More work for those of us still there, but the animals are all still getting top-notch care. We’ve been able to take them out to new places they don’t get to when guests are around. Like taking our porcupine to the manatee building and walking a cheetah past the rhinos. I think it’s fun for them, but I haven’t seen any animals acting differently.

zookeeperNstbernard , Kim (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

66points

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K. 4 years ago

Awesome that zoo animals are still receiving great care. I know money is an issue. I’m sorry and amazed by the wonderful and kind hearted people who are doing triple the work so that no animal is neglected. For the rest of corporate America and working people, let’s change the culture so that people don’t have to overwork themselves without getting promotions and higher pay to cut costs to higher ups. They expect this to be the norm without compensating your time that you have to spend away from taking care of yourself, family and friends, and individual enrichment and pursuits.

17points

TheGiantUnicorn , amg1994 (not the actual photo) Report

#27

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors The parrots miss the crowds. They love flirting with the guests and now they’re demanding a lot more attention from us.

The tigers are more relaxed because we have been able to do a lot more fun stuff.

The fish are a lot more needy surprisingly. Lol

Final score:

60points

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Holly King 4 years ago

Needy fish?? Really

8points

aurora4847 , Rob Annis (not the actual photo) Report

#28

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors Most of our animals are more relaxed then they are with big crowds, or are acting mostly like they usually do. We have 2 bears that like to people watch, so they're definitely missing that source of entertainment, but are otherwise pretty normal. The biggest difference is that our pair of bald eagles mated for the first time in the decade that they've been housed together. We don't intentionally breed our animals, so there isn't a good nesting spot in their enclosure but they just scraped out a divot and laid 2 eggs in it! However, neither are incubating the eggs, and we don't have breeding permits for them so we can't keep the eggs :( Very unpopular with our visitors. The geese that nest on the property are also getting extra territorial and threatening us keepers a lot more.

Final score:

55points

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Gabi 4 years ago

Breeding permits?!?!?!

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#29

Zookeepers Share How Animals Are Reacting To The Lack Of Visitors As a zookeeper coordinator I’ve been working at the now closed zoo almost every day for the past month. Animals that are free roaming (peacocks, iguanas) are more active, and follow keepers around like they usually do with visitors. Most of the others don’t show much change in behavior. Although birds like swans and flamingos are using the edges of their habitats more.

Pyrocephalus-rubinus , Canção de Lisboa (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

52points

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#30

I work with birds at my zoo, and they are actually displaying so many more natural behaviors than they normally do! They are much more comfortable just being birds with less people around. They don't have to worry about getting spooked, or stepped on, or screamed at. It's kind of a really cool thing to witness first hand!! I expect we might make more babies than a normal year, so that could be a bit of good news!

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Final score:

48points

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K. 4 years ago

Yay!! More good news.

8points

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Hans 4 years ago

Behind every child that harrasses animals at the zoo is a parent who was a bad example! To my experience, hardly any child comes without empathy for animals, and most are very gentle with animals. Until they learn otherwise. Respect children, respect animals, respect any being!

17points

Zuila 4 years ago

That isn't always the case. I know from my personal experience that we had a very rough journey with our eldest son considering the treatment of the pets. He liked to see how our dog and cat would react on hitting and harassing, but I can assure you that we wouldn't never mistreat our animals and we will not tolerate any mistreating of animals from our children (or any kid). Our youngest son on the other hand is naturally gentle with animals and our oldest has learned to be kind to animals.

7points

Eric Schuller 4 years ago

When I took my cousin and his wife to the zoo with their daughters two years ago, they wanted to see the wolves, but the keepers couldn't coax them to the front. The thing is, I know these wolves and have listened to their pack. I was able to trick them to coming close enough to see by imitating one of their pack members. My little cousins got to see the beautiful beasts and I had to spend ten minutes explaining to the zoo keepers how I pulled off that little stunt. I would not recommend imitating my behavior. I've worked with wolf-hybrids in shelters before and I've been working with wild and domesticated dogs since I was a toddler.

2points

Clavelle 4 years ago

Well said Hans! My parents taught me to be respectful of animals, and I teach my child the same. Children need to be taught to respect animals.

1point

Zuila 4 years ago

I was pleasantly surprised that there were that many stories where animals missed the visitors. It feels like their lives at zoos aren't that bad.

9points

Christina Uhlir 4 years ago

Don't forget that that is an opinion of people, even if they work with animals they can't know what exactly it is animals miss.

-2points

K. 4 years ago

I really want to study and analyze these issues. People aren’t going to zoos/ museums/ aquariums as much as they used to, which cuts the funding and burdens the staff with more tasks to pull double duty. We should reevaluate what we do for fun and entertainment, send a message about what we prioritize and create a demand there. Thank you BoredPanda for including this article, which presented so many things to consider and distract us.

6points

Tabitha L 4 years ago

I would much rather a wildlife refuge where people view from a monorail. Animals would be free to roam, eat, mate; all away from people.

6points

Julia Daxenbichler 4 years ago

This is just sad. Those animals never had a "proper social life" to begin with. Humans are not a proper social life for a wild animal.

4points

Christina Uhlir 4 years ago

Yes, not proper and certainly not natural.

0points

Tabitha L 4 years ago

Surprised there wasn't a post from the zoo that has the slaughter plan at the ready. They plan to feed animals with other zoo animals if/when they run out of food. The polar bear gets killed last. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/world/europe/germany-zoo-coronavirus.html

2points

Christina Uhlir 4 years ago

This is true, not all Zoos are "heaven" for animals.

0points

Felicity 4 years ago

I'm surprised to hear that some animals actually miss the visitors. The last time I was at a zoo all I could think about was how stressful it must be for the animals with so many kids running about making so much noise. I think there should be signs up asking people to keep their voices down. I feel for the arctic fox.

1point

Lisa Chambers 4 years ago

This was the best post I have ever read on Bored Panda.

1point

Betsy Blanchard Burr 4 years ago

How wonderful to come upon you! The Peruvian birds were truly marvels--and I was sooo interested in the zoo observations. Thanks!

0points

Beth Stevens 4 years ago

I really enjoyed reading this . what a great question! and very informative answers. My childhood dream was to be a zookeeper and I love hearing about the things you all do to enrich their lives!

0points

Full Name 4 years ago

People often forget that animals have feelings too. (remember that next time you are eating one).

0points

ravina nimje 4 years ago

Thanos was right altogether.

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SirPatTheCat 4 years ago

That's..what they meant...the zookeeper didn't want them either, but the wild squirrels were getting into the zoo and causing shenanigans lol (I'm assuming this means trying to steal food mostly like they would at a bird feeder)

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Hans 4 years ago

17points

Zuila 4 years ago

7points

Eric Schuller 4 years ago

2points

Clavelle 4 years ago

Well said Hans! My parents taught me to be respectful of animals, and I teach my child the same. Children need to be taught to respect animals.

1point

Zuila 4 years ago

I was pleasantly surprised that there were that many stories where animals missed the visitors. It feels like their lives at zoos aren't that bad.

9points

Christina Uhlir 4 years ago

Don't forget that that is an opinion of people, even if they work with animals they can't know what exactly it is animals miss.

-2points

K. 4 years ago

6points

Tabitha L 4 years ago

I would much rather a wildlife refuge where people view from a monorail. Animals would be free to roam, eat, mate; all away from people.

6points

Julia Daxenbichler 4 years ago

This is just sad. Those animals never had a "proper social life" to begin with. Humans are not a proper social life for a wild animal.

4points

Christina Uhlir 4 years ago

Yes, not proper and certainly not natural.

0points

Tabitha L 4 years ago

2points

Christina Uhlir 4 years ago

This is true, not all Zoos are "heaven" for animals.

0points

Felicity 4 years ago

1point

Lisa Chambers 4 years ago

This was the best post I have ever read on Bored Panda.

1point

Betsy Blanchard Burr 4 years ago

How wonderful to come upon you! The Peruvian birds were truly marvels--and I was sooo interested in the zoo observations. Thanks!

0points

Beth Stevens 4 years ago

I really enjoyed reading this . what a great question! and very informative answers. My childhood dream was to be a zookeeper and I love hearing about the things you all do to enrich their lives!

0points

Full Name 4 years ago

People often forget that animals have feelings too. (remember that next time you are eating one).

0points

ravina nimje 4 years ago

Thanos was right altogether.

-1point

Dave Elliott 4 years ago

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SirPatTheCat 4 years ago

3points