Interesting, I was googeling the word "captivity" with "San Diego Zoo" and found dozens of examples from zoo professionals using this or a related (e. g. captiv-bred) word.....
Its nice to see that you equate the jobs in fur industry und factory farming with the jobs of animal keepers in zoological institutions... (As long as it is not mine, I don't care, isn't it?)
Gratulations when you write a 9-digit-word faster then a 13-digit (incl. word spacing). Like most others I'm not that genious. (Of course there is another reason for using "captivity". It is more common and so easier to understand for non-zoo-enthusiasts/experts).
Freedom? There is no freedom in nature: Also habitats outside zoos and aquarias are limited. You should know that.
There are no cetacean species in capt.... in human care AT THE MOMENT who need that. But there are scientist thinking about that with vaquitas. And they would be able to fall back to all that knowledge collected with other cetaceans.
By the way: It is logical that breeding results with bottle-nosed dolphin are more succesfull because of a. their numbers and b. the experience thru the longer and continous time of keeping them.
You did ? No wonder-this is America...and if I see some of the exhibits at San Diego Zoo, maybe it's not wrong in this case. So please ask german zoopeople what say about"Gefangenschaft"But the term"Captivity"speaks for itselfs, but no word from you about that fact. Its only a"word", without any meaning, isn't it ?
I didn't compared jobs in the fur industry and factory farming with zoo jobs-Who can read, is clearly in the advantage. Your nice explanation of"Freedom"does not change the fact that freedom is the logical opposite of captivity. So you should know what captivity means, but it seems, you don't
But I forgot-you are a"Zoo enthuasist", a slong as enough rare species kept in"Captitiy", he world is right for you, isn#t it ? So of course you have to defense Cetaceans in"Captivity". My recommodation for you is a Vvst at Tierpark Donnersberg, one of the now largest"collection"-another great term in relation to Zoos-of"Rarities"in germany. You will love this place, because really every month, they get more rare species. I would like to know, whether you willnotice something there..I bet, you don't. But you will love the"Collection"--in this case, it is literally a Collection....
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As longer a species is kept in captity, the more succesful is the breed...this is logical ? Good Joke, but in the case of bottle-nosed dolphins you forget the extreme high numbers of animals died during the"Making of experince", but the breeding became first in the 80ties more successful...so we don't have to talk about other speices- River dolphins are kept since the 50ties-in more zoos than you know-so a long time to get enough experience in keeping and breeding them. How many young were raised? Two, as far as I know-how many died ? No exccat numbers available, but it were more than a few....
Or better, elphant seals ! Kept since 1910, hundreds were imported, zoos got so many expericenes in their welfare, but were , or better to say was, the breeding ?
Musk Ox are kept since the 19.century in"Captivity", but they are still doing very bad in "captive conditions"-, but of course, somtimes a calf grew up succesfully.
But you have right, as long as they"breed", the welfare is succesful.
Its unfortunate, there are not yet general international laws to forbid the capture of cetaceans for zoos and dolphinariums, as russia is doing at the moment with orcas for china( disguting), but they are needed. By the way-we need that laws also for other species, elephants for example.
I like it so much, especially if even zoo peole or in zoos interested people talk about"Animals in Captivity". So what animal rightners may think, if even zoo people are saying, zoo animals are prisioners ? And they do, if they talk about"Dolphins in Captivity".
The world will continue to turn around, even without dolphins and"Killer"whales in"Captivity".
