Werribee Open Range Zoo Changes at Weribee Zoo! (lions)

[Steve Robinson]

Sigh. Don't tell me ARAZPA are going to be providing yet another "off-display" cash-cow for the Irwin family?

I'm not telling you that.

 

[ZYBen]

I am surprised that dealing with male offspring is considered as such a big problem - why don`t they just castrate them.

These arent Kudu

 

[jay]

These arent Kudu

No we can always bring in more lions

 

[phoenix]

i'm still reeling from steve comment about the males being heterozygous for white.

i don't think diluting the white gene through the general lion population is particularly responsible.

 

[ZYBen]

I spose we are all too busy worrying about Tigers/Elephants/Rhino's and gorillas to have worried about lions before.

 

[m575]

well I can (and maybe others that visited recently?) that two lions WHERE taken off display for a period of time We'll see if anything comes of it in the next few months I guess!

 

[Kifaru Bwana]

i'm still reeling from steve comment about the males being heterozygous for white.

i don't think diluting the white gene through the general lion population is particularly responsible.

Nope, but then I am not convinced preserving white gene lions in zoos is a great conservation rationale and ethic either.

I do wish that - with the current status of African lions in the wild - that we progressively phase out the generics and whites in favour of pure-bred lions wild-caught from Africa now before it is bloody too late (in hind-sight) and start creating some valid conservation breeding programmes for admittedly the most favored zoo animal .... around.

 

[m575]

) and start creating some valid conservation breeding programmes for admittedly the most favored zoo animal .... around.

I know Werribee and Melbourne are changing their approach to conservation. It's a start.