Reply #21: birth control and planned breeding is the option used by my zoo [View All]

[pitohui]

audubon zoo in new orleans has been using birth control, where needed, on big cats for two decades

there are indeed a finite number of zoos that can display and care for big cats in a wild-type safe environment, so the use of birth control does come into play

zoos do get attention from the public for successful breeding and there is a publicity aspect to breeding, but the wise zoos try to plan so that animals will not have to be "surplused" unnecessarily

keeping wild tigers wild is a noble ideal but it will result in their extinction in a 100 years or so, there are too many people, and sensible people do not want wild tigers around their villages, suburbs, etc, so we have a conflict going until people voluntarily cut way back on overpopulating this planet, which will never happen for political reasons (if i cut back on breeding MY kind i will be outbred by fascist and fundy fuckwits)