Zoos and exotic pets are linked. I wonder how zoos can use this connection? Zoos could teach people positively, encouraging interest in responsible keeping exotic animals. Zoos could also teach not to keep pets irresponsibly, e.g.buy baby turtles which end up in zoos or suburban canals.
In Lyon...
Ambassador Animal Exercise Yard. All the fence work is done, but a climbing structure and some landscaping will be added. This summer it will be used by volunteers as a place for educational presentations involving the zoo's ambassador animals.
The black footed ferret is both an iconic native endangered species and a conservation success story which serves to highlight the role and importance of zoos for ex-situ conservation.
I'm quite curious about the species and wanted to ask a few questions to zoochatters in the USA relating to...