Toronto Zoo Zoo in the News

[Ungulate]

I came across this interesting (and rather long-winded) posting about the Toronto Zoo and its current turmoil.

http://netgainpartners.blogspot.com/2008/07/there-have-been-number-of-articles.html

After snowleopard's review, I found the last sentence in the following paragraph to be a succinct summary of snowleopard's opinion, and I must say that in this sense I agree.

Zoos are always in the news. They either confer prestige or shame on the City’s that own them. In war torn countries, we get footage of the animals starving or being eaten. From Germany we get news of a psychopathic polar bear that entertains visitors with violent expressions of rage at its social isolation. The Vancouver aquarium eventually caved in to public opinion and whale mortality by eliminating its orca exhibits and concentrating on humane and educational demonstrations of sea mammal behavior. The San Diego Zoo has had problems containing its big cats. And the Toronto Zoo, once one of the top ten in the world, struggles to hide the fact that it offers largely same visitor experience today as it did a quarter century ago.

 

[CZJimmy]

slightly off-topic but...

"The San Diego Zoo has problems containing it's big cats."

Surely that's bad journalism (San Francisco) or has something happened in SD?

 

[Quartz92]

I'm just subscribing to the thread!