Jacob Feder is an awful human.
Whilst it's apparent that he loves his animals, his enclosures really are quite poor (though some of his turtle ponds are quite nice). His builds are incredibly small and fixed, offering no opportunity for behavioural diversity. Unfortunately, his fans seem to love him and see nothing wrong with his actions (very few comments can be found speaking out against his poor standards).
Not only does the idiot have a clouded leopard (alongside many other species), but he will soon be getting a tiger! As I saw one comment suggest, this seems like the start to Tiger King 2.0...
I'm fairly familiar with him, I started watching him briefly when he still had Inidian spotted turtles, red footed tortoises, and rhinoceros iguanas in his back garden. I saw some of his videos again when he was first talking about starting his own private zoo (or whatever it is), and I have to say a lot of the stuff he has done with tortoises is pretty impressive, but it seems maybe he should of stuck to that.
What started getting me worried (and even annoyed at the lack of criticism I had seen at this point) is when he started talking about putting Clouded Leopards in tiki hut cages, and the Capuchin in a nappy Jacob Feder seems to be in full contact with is a whole other situation that could be discussed. And his other enclosures for mammals aren't much different, that Tiger enclosure wouldn't be exceptional in size for even something like a Geoffrey's, Jungle, or Pallas cat.
Speaking of the tiger enclosure, 40 seconds in to that second video he describes it as "honestly one of the nicest private habitats that I've ever seen."
"I've been to a lot of animal facilities, I've seen some habitats, I've helped build a lot of habitats, so this is the culmination of a lot of my animal experience designing this habitat from the ground up".
Now this could be seen as worrying, but maybe not surprising information to hear from him, however, weirdly enough, despite all of this he does seem to have good knowledge of his species, and even has information signs in front of a lot of his enclosures, so at least he isn't completely unknowledgeable.
I seem to remember he had connections with some sort of zoo, as far as I can remember, it wasn't much more impressive than Jacob's private zoo, and I think there was even a humanized young chimp from there that has featured in some of his videos before. If I remember correctly he has also had a young pair of otters he was hand rearing star on his channel previously as well.
Edit: Yep, just checked his channel and the amount of positive feedback and defending of any negative feedback he is getting is concerning...
