By the way, some of the American zoos suffer from their "history"
i know the The Bronx zoo can destroy old buidings cause they are "historic" so its a problem that zoo all around the world have.
There is absolutly no reason to defense this sun bear prison at the Berlin Animal Park. For many,many years the ebars lived only in the inside cells, because the formely zoo director of this park was, a slike as the present director, a collector of animal species...
I think, with the right person, the Berlin Animal Park could be really one of the best zoos in europe, but Blaskiewitz is unable to recognizne that.....
The main problem in german zoos are the architects and the zoodirectors,which are more interested in huge, phnastatic animal house monuments, Munich is a good example, and what i have to say is, a lot of new exhibits are more bad than a lot of older exhibits....
And of cousre there are many,many bad old and new exhibits in american zoos, and almost all of the big famous zoos in teh states have dissapoint me, Brookfield,San Diego zoo,( who ever has seen some areas behind the scens of that zoo, would agreee me ),San Francisco,Los Angeles,Lincoln Park...But a few otheres zoos, whcih are not that famous, are wonderful places, so the Phoenix Zoo or the LKiving bets, two of the ebst zoos I've seen theer during my two visits. And I'm sure, during my next visit in Summer 2009, I will see also good and bad zoos, but I have not really high hopes in the famous Bronx-Zoo....
There is absolutly no reason to defense this sun bear prison at the Berlin Animal Park. For many,many years the ebars lived only in the inside cells, because the formely zoo director of this park was, a slike as the present director, a collector of animal species...
I think, with the right person, the Berlin Animal Park could be really one of the best zoos in europe, but Blaskiewitz is unable to recognizne that.....
The main problem in german zoos are the architects and the zoodirectors,which are more interested in huge, phnastatic animal house monuments, Munich is a good example, and what i have to say is, a lot of new exhibits are more bad than a lot of older exhibits....
And of cousre there are many,many bad old and new exhibits in american zoos, and almost all of the big famous zoos in teh states have dissapoint me, Brookfield,San Diego zoo,( who ever has seen some areas behind the scens of that zoo, would agreee me ),San Francisco,Los Angeles,Lincoln Park...But a few otheres zoos, whcih are not that famous, are wonderful places, so the Phoenix Zoo or the LKiving bets, two of the ebst zoos I've seen theer during my two visits. And I'm sure, during my next visit in Summer 2009, I will see also good and bad zoos, but I have not really high hopes in the famous Bronx-Zoo....
Pheonix zoo is amazing, until you reach their Orang Utan exhibit, which is the worst exhibit i ever saw....i think every zoo has its own "good and bad" spots.
@Zebraduiker: "Defend it"? Hell, no; but as okapikpr correctly pointed out, and as you do know, the non-public indoor enclosures in most zoos worlwide look pretty much like that-or, if they are public, have glass instead of bars. Tierpark Friedrichsfelde is just presenting its "dirty underwear" to the public eye...
Good point @drzoomi; in all the zoos I have been so far, one can determine (oversimplifyingly) three kinds of exhibits: the (more or less) Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. It's the individual ratio of these three which, among others, makes out a good or not so good zoo. And in regard to Berlin's Tierpark, I tend to agree with you, @Zebraduiker: in its current form, it doesn't live up to its great potential.
@Zebraduiker: don't be worried about your summer visit to the Bronx Zoo, because if we go by the good, the bad, and the ugly (The "Eastwood" ranking system?) then the Bronx is high on anyone's list for its numerous superb animal habitats.
@Sun Wukong. Maybe Dr. B. does it, because these are very traditional bear cages, and he is, as you know, a very traditional man, so he has problems to show his vistors these cages...
"... the good, the bad, and the ugly (The "Eastwood" ranking system?)".
A brand new phrase in the English language has just been coined! (I prefer "Eastwood" over "Leone" - everybody knows who Clint is, few people are familiar with Sergio...)
Well, everybody should know Sergio Leone! I'd be glad to make him thereby posthumously more popular! Leone is also namewise closer to the actual subject... In any case, I hereby assure myself the copyrights; I want a banana for every time the term is used. After all, one does never know whether you might not need the service of a Canadian dentist one day...
