zoogeekmaelstrom
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Extremely good news for the Japanese zoo community and the global zoo community as a whole.
Asa Zoo Asa Zoo, Hiroshima
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It's certainly good news. But I can't help but be saddened because I truly found the facilities where the forest elephants live in Asa to be terrible. Seeing animals typical of impenetrable, dark jungles in barren, almost shadeless expanses between dry earth and concrete is very sad. I think the Asa Zoo should make significant improvements to these enclosures to improve the lives of these magnificent animals.
Whereas, it is good news and progress as far as the species Loxodonta cyclotis in captivity is concerned .... with a population that is numerically negligible compared to the status of threat of the species in west and central range of the tropical equatorial rainforest arc.
I would wish there would be some attempt in West and Central Africa to have zoos work with the species in more natural and spaced exhibits.
captain alligator
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Frankly, I think it's quite rare that Japanese zoos keep African Forest Elephants, which aren't even kept in Europe and North American zoos (though I've never been to Asa Zoo myself).
You'd be surprised by the sheer number of species you can see in Asian zoos that you won't find in any other zoo in the world...
captain alligator
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According to the Zootierliste, the African Forest Elephants was formerly kept at 24 zoos in Europe, 7 zoos in the United States, and the Buenos Aires Zoo in Argentina.