You'rer right, to keep them alive, thats the trick, unfortunately, it failed....I've worked to long with animals, to read such a nonsens. Sorry, jewer. There are lot of more species which can't be kept in captivity, belive me that. Elephant Seals, Gerenuks or Pangolins are more really good examples.
You don't know really much about animals or zoos, do you ? So Singapore might be more sucessfully with doucs than european zoos, but also Singapore sends a lot of them across the Jordan.....Too much....
These responses really annoy me. I don't agree with someone so let's just say he doesn't know anything about animals or zoos and leave it at that. The fact you can't even read my name properly says it all really, if you can't debate then don't.
Rediculous.
During the existence of zoos there have been multiple examples of animal species that were hard to keep and hard to breed. But with a lot of species we did manage to do it! We gained enough experience and now we ARE capable to hold them and increase their numbers.
Every animal should be able to be kept, the thing is what is the cost. How much research has to be done and how many animals have to die before you perfect the husbandry and are you willing to invest that much, ultimately, that's the question.
I agree that there are a lot of species that should be abandoned (by which i mean, not kept in captivity) because we don't know enough yet and we are not able to keep them succesfully.
I however feel that there seem to be quite a few Douc langurs in captivity in south-east asia, and there are examples of zoos that seem to do well with them, like the EPRC in Vietnam. If there is a steady stream of poached animals that can't be returned to the wild or if they do really well in south-east asian zoos then i'd rather see western european zoos try and keep them then let them rot at some persons living room cage in Vietnam, or let them end up on the dinner table.
Thanks Kifaru for the support, but i guess he's worked too long with animals to listen to your nonsense too...
to come back to another topic on Cologne, anyone who knows were the budgerigars are coming from that are currently in the Koelner Zoo?
According to the zootierliste site, the animals at Cologne are in fact wild budgerigars imported from Melbourne, and Cologne only sent a part of their stock to Kevelaer, not everything. I'm not sure if this is true, but there's a very high likelyhood.
