Taronga Zoo orangutan death

thats what i thought too. glad to have some new members around here who can keep us posted with all the most recent animal deaths at taronga zoo so soon after they occur
 
Well it appears that The NSW govt. zoos are having a very unfortunate period at the moment.
 
i wonder if the greenies will publish their results to their investigations when they find that it was just 2 tragic accidents.
 
it is tragic accidents and in the case of judy a humane decision. the ZPB of NSW does have a long history of keeping elephants which have attained remarkable ages, conducts it very succesful rhino breeding programs and only 3 weeks ago was celebrating the 60th birthday of fifi the chimpanzee, one of 3 great apes to reach or be close to this milestone age.
in addition, taronga has or had long-lived tigers, lions, kodiak bears, giraffes, seals, just to name a few. i dont think taronga or western plains zoo are in any way bad at what they do, although i will say that the orang enclosure would now be looking kinda empty, wouldnt it?
 
i should hope not!! (and i didn't think otherwise...)

oh of course taronga sent their sumatran to adelaide didn't they? so now they have just 3 hybrids..
 
Common Scents said:
Just two now.
In case anyone is wondering, Judy wasn't euthanised for space reasons, she had been terribly sick for a while.
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'Just two now' Does that mean the Sumatran male Kluett has now been sent, as was planned, to Adelaide Zoo?
 
kelvin said:
i think it's really quite sad that both zoos are receiving such negative publicity over the recent spate of animal deaths. i can see where the welfare groups are coming from, but i really think they are just nuts (excuse the language) sometimes.

Why did the zoo animals have to die? - National - smh.com.au
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A few years ago, Blackpool Zoo in the Uk similarly received a lot of bad publicity when two apes died(from natural causes) only a day or so apart, while a third had been euthanased not so long before. It was a purely coincidental chain of events, the deaths weren't related in any way. However, it was also quite quickly all forgotten and no lasting damage was done to the zoo's reputation. Taronga will probably find the same...
 
kelvin said:
i think it's really quite sad that both zoos are receiving such negative publicity over the recent spate of animal deaths. i can see where the welfare groups are coming from, but i really think they are just nuts (excuse the language) sometimes.

Why did the zoo animals have to die? - National - smh.com.au
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Animal rights love to jump on whatever they can get (even if its pure nonsense) because they have such little ammo for their arguments.

There are always deaths in zoos, and if the deaths weren't caused by staff negligence/bad practices then there really isn't much reason to take the zoos to task.
 
and again, the zoos are answerable to an environment minister who's specialty is bushfires:confused:
24 animals dying, id say thats pretty good going when you consider the zoos have over 4000 animals shitting, breathing, eating, birthing and dying every day.
and yep, only 2 orangs now that kluett has left for adelaide.
 
all deaths are recorded in the annual report too, a publicaly available document. of the animal deaths profiled by the 'australian' newspaper, most of those deaths realy were old age or accidents, like freak storms in the case of the meerkats which collapsed their burrows.
 
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