Definitely going to go dig around those threads to see if I can find anything! If not, chalk it up to my brain mixing up this site with other sites, it feels like Cincinati can "do no wrong" when it comes to hippos when other social media is concerned. I do wonder how their hippo care would be viewed if Fiona had been born healthy/full term.
I certainly do think most (if not all) of us on here believe Cincy's hippo enclosure is inadequate for the hippos they have.
...oof-
I'm honestly very very glad nothing bad has come of this situation. Certainly could've turned out much worse. Obviously Cincy's not of the storm yet, but the worst has been avoided.
That makes sense as Fiona's publicity has made a lot of others view Cincinnati as having gone above and beyond - it helps they did a much better job publicizing their efforts to help her online than many other zoos do when they help their own animals behind the scenes. Transparency can make a big difference. The joke on zoochat is that Cincinnati is relying on Fiona to save their image after a few previous sources of negativity publicity and the current awful state of the exhibit is enhanced by the fact they can't get rid of her now.
Does "people" mean zoochatters or the usual travel and entertainment magazine lists that are regularly dunked on here? That makes a big difference. Genuinely asking. I would bet you the majority of zoochatters, even active posters, have never visited the Denver Zoo, and most of the praise I've seen has come from me or snowleopard, and I've seen others offer reservation towards him ranking it as high as he has. I've usually clarified my praise with my lack of travel to compare.
Philly gets ranked in top ten lists because those lists are voted on by the public, and they're better than other zoos at mobilizing locals on social media to vote for them.
I deliberately was excluding the latter but thank you for reminding me about Cheyene!
Agreed. Yeah, my review was pretty critical of The Edge and Harmony Hill. I'm not surprised by the lack of discourse on the flamingo exhibit as you pretty much summarize the state around those animals at any facility. I really wish I'd had the chance to see Bird World, but I do think the Australia complex has a lot of potential yet and I hope it surpasses expectations.
Depending on the taxa, I agree with this. I only live feed my leopard gecko, for example, but in other cases it is either dangerous or unethical. Unfortunately it didn't fit my schedule, but when at Bronx I wanted to catch the bee-eater feeding demonstration, which I'm told sometimes includes live bees.
Having a different opinion is not the same as having an "excluding attitude". Like it or not, the role of hunting in conservation is a hot-button issue, and one which people have different attitudes towards. I don't think anyone is "refusing to acknowledge" regulating hunting can generate money for conservation, the more contentious point is whether or not the harm done by hunting is outweighed by that money raised. Especially when lead bullets are used, I for one think the harm can easily outweigh the money raised (i.e., look at California condors and lead poisoning).
It's not this statement per se I have an issue with, but I won't get too deep into examples and cause another random debate.