Do they use live fish in these demos? there would be an outcry here, I don't think we can feed anything live above insects to animals in UK but I may be wrong.
I can't speak to whether Cleveland uses live fish, but several U.S. zoo exhibits do including the grizzly bear exhibit at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle and the jaguar exhibit at the San Diego Zoo. I saw the jaguar hunting for fish in San Diego last year - incredible.
I can't speak to whether Cleveland uses live fish, but several U.S. zoo exhibits do including the grizzly bear exhibit at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle and the jaguar exhibit at the San Diego Zoo. I saw the jaguar hunting for fish in San Diego last year - incredible.
They have used fish in here from time to time but not on a regular basis.The Columbus Zoo stocks its Polar Bear pool with trout which is an incredible thing to see when they are successful in catching one!
It appears the ocelots and the fishing cat have switched exhibits, making an ocelot home to this and an adjacent exhibit while the fishing cat is home to the single enclosure across the path.
It appears the ocelots and the fishing cat have switched exhibits, making an ocelot home to this and an adjacent exhibit while the fishing cat is home to the single enclosure across the path.
This must be a rather recent change because the fishing cats were in this exhibit and the ocelot was in the single enclosure across the path on my visit just two months ago... Perhaps they rotate?
Do they use live fish in these demos? there would be an outcry here, I don't think we can feed anything live above insects to animals in UK but I may be wrong.
I don't think it's specfically outlawed, but if I recall there's a clause about causing vertebrated animals undue suffering, particularly by setting them against each other, that could be (ab)used to bring a prosecution, so it's avoided pretty much exclusively. I'm only aware of it being done in cases where an animal will not/cannot take either dead vertebrate food or live invertebrate food.
