Tham khảo tài liệu 'zoos and animal welfare phần 5', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | and Lowry Park Zoo captured 11 African elephants a species designated as threatened from their natural habitats in Swaziland. Experts scientists and researchers who study elephants in the wild strongly opposed the capture stating Taking elephants from the wild is not only traumatic for them it is also detrimental to their health. . . . W e believe the time has come to consider them as sentient beings and not as so much money on the hoof to be captured and sold and displayed for our own use. Zoos are also pressuring the federal government to weaken the Endangered Species Act to make it easier for them to capture and import animals who are on the brink of extinction. When Cute Little Babies Grow Up Zoo babies are crowd-pleasers but when they get older and attract fewer visitors many are sold or killed by zoos. Deer tigers lions and other animals who breed frequently are sometimes sold to game farms where hunters pay for the privilege of killing them others are killed for their meat and or hides. Other surplus animals may be sold to circuses or smaller more poorly run zoos. A chimpanzee named Edith is one example of a discarded zoo baby who fell into the wrong hands. Born in the 1960s at the Saint Louis Zoo baby Edith was surely an adorable sight for visitors. But just after her third birthday she was taken from her family and passed around to at least five different facilities finally landing at a Texas roadside zoo called the Amarillo Wildlife Refuge AWR . During an undercover investigation of AWR PETA found Edith in a filthy barren concrete pit. She was hairless and had been living on rotten produce and dog food. . . . Another example involves Twiggs and Jeffrey two giraffes born at the Cape May County Zoo. When they got older they were sold by the zoo to a broker who subsequently sold them to a traveling circus. The director of the Cape May County Zoo actually admitted to seeing the animals pitiful living conditions in the circus but did not have a problem with .
