This zoo was hard for me.
I hadn't gone to zoos for a very long time (maybe a decade), until I moved to Austin... Austin's zoo is a wildlife rescue, and the animals have large spaces to inhabit. I felt ok going and showing my children the animals and contributing financially to their efforts.
This zoo in Acapulco had very small cages. The Ostrich is in a pen way too small for its size, and I could feel its stress while standing near.
The monkeys pen is also too small, he was swinging back and forth, needing more room to move and get his energy out. He didnt seem unhappy in the way of the ostrich.
It another great opportunity to talk about animals, sovereignty, rights, etc...
Do animals have rights?
I think they do, many in the liberty movement disagree.
I do not think its wrong to eat meat, I do think its wrong to exploit and abuse aninals. I also do not like American animal shelters, I find them cruel and inhumane. What are your thoughts on this?
I think if we're going to keep them captive we should try and make them as happy as possible. I've not been to the zoo here, where is it?
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Its on the far end of the bay in a huge park complex.
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Interesting. Have you been to the Botanical gardens yet?
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What rights are you speaking of? The right to live? It would be an absurd - the carnivorous need to kill other animals to eat and live, so whose right would be superior - the predator's or the prey's? The animal world is a field of constant and natural aggression, while the human civilization penalizes one man's aggression against another one. We cannot apply the same measures between those two.
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