What IS disturbing is the separation of typical people and the source of their food. Some children literally believe meat comes from the store, they need to know and respect that an animal DIED for that meal. We have lost all reverence for nature. Thank you to the zoos that are trying to educate my ignorant generation and their offspring.
People not knowing where their food comes from is disturbing, but not animals having their throats slit or thrown in gas chambers and being hung by their ankles to bleed to death isn't? You sound a bit psychopathic
@@josee.1709 do you think that is possible for those who live in urban environments? Millions of people flooding the forests looking for "natural meat"... Or are you somehow imagining massive slaughterhouses where people can murder their own animal?
You are such a hypocrite! Those of you who are against zoos shouldn't have any kind of animal at home, as domestic animals spend their entire lives inside a backyard and apartment!
Farmers and hunters sometimes have a difficult time deciding which animals to kill. Nature doesn't have this problem. Most of us have seen the troubling videos of animals that are sick or injured in the wild falling prey to predators. It's a part of the cycle of life. I think it's important for us to teach this to the next generation because life is definitely not a Disney movie. In the wild, there's no contract or agreement between animals when they have young or sick members. Allowing animals in zoos to breed freely would be very cruel. Enclosures would become overcrowded and parents would breed with their offspring creating sick or deformed animals. Teaching and showing this in a controlled environment will allow us to keep healthy and happy animals in captivity.
I was on the team that went in and helped rehab the zoo in Baghdad in 2004. Horrifying.... Zero concern for the physical or psychological welfare of the animals they were feeding to the lions.
@@MH-pz8wf They were throwing live donkeys into the lion enclosure, in full view of the rest of the donkeys. They stood there in a pen, trembling with fear. We put a stop to that sh*t. The keepers couldn't grasp why that was a problem.
Feeding? Obviously not. The dead, living & each are not food, drink or shelter just as dairy milk is not milk & eggs of another species are not for any other species other then what produced it too.
Incredibly complex dilemma to handle- DW's coverage is exceptionally even-handed. I can't help but wonder why the male zebra was attacking a female? Males attacking unrelated foals is quite common, but this seems peculiar.
Imprisoned, abused, referred to by number, killed at will. Sound familiar? Let's stop imprisoning and abusing animals. This is and has always been inhumane.
You are such a hypocrite! Those of you who are against zoos shouldn't have any kind of animal at home, as domestic animals spend their entire lives inside a backyard and apartment!
@@pedroarthurbarbosa I used to be a hypocrite about this like most people, but I got better informed and I'm now vegan. I don't support zoos or other animal abuse industries. Zoos, like all for-profit animal industries, are shockingly abusive to animals. Also, unless you abuse, drug, force-breed, imprison and kill your pets, zoo animals and pets are in _very_ different situations.
@@shoegal7 Zoos pretend to be Disney movies, but they're neither that, nor nature, and if you don't see that, you live in a fantasy. Also, lots of things happen in the wild that you'd never want done to you. Things happening in the wild isn't an excuse for humans to manufacture excuses to harm animals for profit.
This really is a complicated issue, and believe me when i say this is something animalkeepers struggle with everyday. A big part of being a zookeeper is ethics of keeping animals. And most modern zoos are changing, i believe that in the next century or so. Zoos will stop keeping the harder to justify animals. Like great apes, big cats and elephants. As for the culling of animals. Nothing in life is more natural than death. And when done correctly the culling of an animal isn't a detriment to its wellbeing. The animals live doesn't decrease in quality when it is culled. its live is ended. And it is done painless. And as far as i know that rarely happens in the wild.
I think it's the culling of young ones that's tough to take. Even with humans, yes, everyone dies, but no one wants to see a kid get cancer or hit by a car or drown. They just got here, after all.
Public senstivity changes over time, but the truth is that we are living increasingly disconnected from nature, which promotes a Disneyfied vision of the wild. We can't afford to do that, when the world is racing towards the 6th mass extinction 😕. If you ask me, the most important goal of modern zoos is education - but if they try to fit in with the (warped) public expectations, what are they really teaching? So maybe zoos SHOULD talk openly about sensitive topics, such as the fact that carnivores aren't supposed to eat neatly prepared morsels on a silver platter... or such as culling.
@@pohanahawaii documentaries can be educational (though definitely not all are), but imho the notion that they are viable substitutes to live interactions is absolutely ludicrous. We need MORE of the hands-on experience (compatibly with animal welfare and respect of the environment of course), not less; we are engrossed in technology as it is
🕵 Notice that zoos are only "saving" the crowd drawing, profit making species like the typical large cats, bears, apes, elephants, giraffes, colorful birds, cute penguins, etc. If "education" and "conservation" was really their goal and not "entertainment", they'd be teaching the public about veganism and saving these animals' natural habitats and ecosystems rather than this 💩.
Animals in zoos is not stopping animals from extinction. They can never go back to the wild and keeping animals in cages just for "education" is so inappropriate. Learn about these animals in books, not staring at them in cages. Interesting video overall.
Great documentary!! I’m a meat eater, I don’t like the killing process, I can’t imagine anyone enjoys that… But just like you say, there’s no connection. Out of sight out of mind!! Just like animals we still need our meats, nutritions, irons etc and not all of us want to rely on man made vitamins and supplements, nothing is as good as the real thing.
There is a major conflict of interest when zoos cull animals for food. There is then a financial interest to deliberately over breed in order to cut costs. For that reason alone, the practise should be made illegal or at least very difficult. While culling may be unavoidable in some circumstances, zoos should not gain financially from it and in fact should have to pay a substantial fee to be allowed to do it. That way the public could be reassured that the culling was the very last resort.
It makes sense. Naturally animals are going to have lower mortality rates in the safety of the zoo than the wild, but death is all part of the balance and has to be artificially controlled in a zoo. Allowing animals to experience their natural family structure’s and breeding cycles may be crucial to their long term conservation. If we don’t provide this certain genes could be switched off and we end up with animals who are genetically incompatible with their natural habitat.
while i absolutely hate zoos and would never visit one (the look of animals in captivity makes me too sad), it is such a moral dilemma as to whether you should value the lives of individual animals over the life of a whole species. i think i’m of the opinion that the individual matters more, since breeding and then ‘culling’ the animals seems so cruel to me. it’s so frustrating as we’ve created the conditions for whole species to become extinct in the first place, and so i see that we have a responsibility to keep species alive also. i wish people had more compassion for animals.
Re: "Lifespan of an individual animal comes second to the survival of the species". That's very true and the ultimate goal MUST be survival of the species. OTOH, the sentience of the animal should be taken into consideration. Highly intelligent animals shouldn't just be "put down".
If you insist upon moving animals to a zoo, i believe you are responsible for their lives. That, i believe does not include killing a healthy animal. What vet would willingly put down healthy animals. I don't agree. It is cruel. If that is the future, leave the animals in their natural habitat.
Travel is so traumatic for animals that they can be permanently mentally messed up from it, especially as long of a journey to another country. Animals can get so stressed from travel they can get seizures (that happened to my cat, and believe me, I only brought him to the vet or he would have died), and the stress can even kill animals. Culling is a far more merciful route, they can die in a much less stressful environment.
Why not feed the goats (and zebra) live to the lions, if you wish to give them a more "natural" diet; just do it when visitors aren't in attendance (hell you probably could do it WITH an audience; plenty of people would find a lion doing what is normal in the wild fascinating, especially since you would never get to see something like this unless you went on safari or watched a tape).
Because it causes unnecessary suffering in the live prey. Euthanasia is fast and relatively stress free compared to being put in an enclosure where the prey has no chance at escape and will have a painful death.
Zoos are prisons. Breeding programs for endangered animals shouldn't have to resort to using the animals for entertainment in order to fund themselves.
Side note: I was really disappointed with the Berlin zoo in general the state of the zoo the state of the aquarium was a joke the variety of animals was terrible I come from Ohio in the United States and we're extremely blessed to have several of the top zoos in the country. You guys need to spend millions renovating.
And if zoos and sanctuaries were gone alongside the wild animals habitat, where would we see them then? Not all zoos and wildlife facilities are bad, think before you judge
A complicated issue... If zoos didn't exist some animals would become extinct.. In their natural habitat animals are killed by locals. Should Europeans decide for Africans how to run their own countries?
@@vickomen333 if you don't know, many animals have subspecies - some of them are endangered, including giraffes & zebras, and ALL big wild cats are endangered~
This is very eye-opening and I never thought of this issue before. It is also upsetting to see these animals being put down. Is it possible to let people adopt them? (people with the ability and resources to keep them )
Zoos should not exist. Animals should be taken care of and protected in their natural environment. Man gives himself the right to feed one animal to another, which he has no right to.
Though admirable, i believe this view of the world is idealistic. Sadly the practical world of conservation of the wild shows that zoos are just necessary. (for now)
That's horrendous, Im so ashamed of my species. Zoos are just Exploiting Enslaved Animals for Greed & Profit. Bad as Seaworld & Factory Farms, I get Carnivores need meat but why not source Elderly Animals. Boycott these awful places.💔 There all about the Money 😥
Then why the hell we keep them captivity ? They can roam around jungle and find their own food like animals did for years. Why should we interfere to it at the first place ?
The idea of slaughtering animals in an area that's supposed to embrace respect and their preservation is horrid at the least. If you guys love life's cycle so much, then why not get an animal already killed from the wild. Although I did not appreciate the depth of the killing, I am glad to be educated on the topic because something needs to change.
A lot of y’all in these comments “care” more about animals than actual people you see everyday. Either way the reasons for killing these animals is very unfortunate
You people aren't right? These animals are from Africa , where they have several 100 square miles to roam . How many square miles do they have in your zoo. . You need to take the animals home. A zoo is a death camp for wildlife.
I don't like zoos. I feel like it's a prison for animals. animals should be in they're own natural habitat. not in a fake one. I wish people would leave things alone.
Imo, either we have no sympathy or regard for animal’s life and welfare, or we treat them with respect, and only kill to eat, we don’t for example, capture live animals and hold them in cages throughout their lives for our enjoyment. And we treat farmed animals with respect and have rules for ethical treatment. And we do not need to eat meat almost every day.
I love the animals and was fortunate as a child to see the "happy side" of zoos, but I don't see the benefit of keeping mammals in captivity. The intentions may have been noble, and it's an great opportunity to raise funds, it's more ethical to keep the in wild. If they're able to preserve DNA of highly endangered species, they would be an option. Keeping animals in unnatural habitats in cages does a lot more harm and is inhumane.
I'd argue some zoo animals lead better lifes than they would in the wild. Also without Zoo's many animals will simply go extinct in the coming decades. Zoo's are not perfect, but maybe in this case the alternative is worse
I don’t think healthy endangered animals like a giraffe should be culled at all. I think they might have to look into zoos in other countries to send them too. Or sanctuary’s need to take them but of course it would be ideal for them to be sent to the wild, but I understand that’s not always an option.
Marius was euthanized in Copenhagen Zoo as part of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EAZA), to avoid inbreeding. EAZA spans 41 countries and is involved in the breeding of healthy populations of animals and the choice was made to preserve the species over the individual. The alternative would be to send it to a facility which did not follow EAZA standards, which would be irresponsible.
People are moving in and building on the animals homes.. its not right 😢 what makes us so much morr important then them... They're the innocent ones not us..
The animals are killed just because there was no other zoo in that country wanted them but there are hundreds of zoos in other countries and continents which are ready to pay a lot of money to buy new animals, so why not offer them these animals? Instead of buying new animals they can just pay the cost of transferring them which can be much lesser. I think the best concept can be creating some kind of an organization of zoos around the world with a data bank with available animals listed in them and whenever there is an extra and non wanted animal, it can be transferred to another zoo which doesn't have that animal and wants them. And even if no one wants them they can simply be sent back to their natural habitat in Africa or wherever they have came from.
@@andrasvegh5916 Those organizations only exist in Europe and America which their zoos do not have any lack of animals but there are a lot of zoos in Asia and South America which do not have enough animals and sometimes they buy animals from smugglers. By giving these extra animals to them you can save them and also help to reduce illegal animal trafficking. So you have mentioned a good point and there must be wider organizations in the world to include the zoos of all continents and international wildlife organizations can help to organize such unions and organizations.
Finally. Surplus animals need to be used as food. This occurs in every husbandry situation. Animals die, and some cannot be supported. This is ultimate recycling. I wish it wasn’t so, but the alternative is to let worms and decay take them. Worse yet, they are discarded in an incinerator.
Thank you for the documentary. Now I know the zoo sometimes has to kill the animal too. It's part of the nature. Not the enjoyable part, but we cannot just pass by it.
@@jbielic4067 I didn't miss that I caught that as well. But I really find this hard to believe. I thought gorillas critically endangered? Of course there's room, they just didn't look hard enough/ or it didn't meet Western standards.
@@KurlandHickory They are endangered because of habitat degradation and poaching. Less habitat -> fewer gorillas. Also, releasing an animal used to humans with no survival skills will result in either its death or the death of local people, or perhaps both.
This is cruel and terrible.. these animals should be place back in there naturel environment. These ppl are cruel as well.. They seem to be use to doing this . Like it's. Natural 😢😢😢😢😢. This man is cruel.. and If it where his fam.. it wouldn't be human.
Great idea - let's "realease" animals that have no survival skills in a shrinking natural habitat where their wild countrepart already struggle to survive as it is. That's gonna end well...
@@tWz4462 Perfectly healthy animals are killed every single day in the wild. And unless you are vegan, you also contribute to the killing of healthy animals.
It says no other zoos need the Pygmy goats there are LOTS of people with farms that love them petting zoos ect. They could work with Rspca to get them housed and get home checks done it’s not like there lions thete goats
That's a cute bumper sticker but it is faaaaar from true. I have seen pictures of dogs fighting to the death and people laughing over it. I've seen cats with their tails tied together thrown over a clothes line. I've been in the car while someone PURPOSELY swerved to hit a raccoon. I can buy permits to track and kill many different animals. Most people, my dear eMom, couldn't give a flying fig about animals. Many dont even pretend to.
We have over population problem of humans too. Can't we fed animals with humans ? I think, they would like to have different taste and sure they will be happy. We can feed them live humans and see the dignity and talent of hunting too. At the end we are eliminating all possible ways of natural population control pattern of the nature and complaining about the over population. We are a sin to the nature.
Do people really think lions should eat vegetables ? lol Zoos aren't a Disney movie. i would actually feed all the predators live prey in order to suppress domestication and invoke exercise and instinct. Live prey would also create a tourist attraction and it would also bring more income to take better care of the animals.
@@shqip_sumejja Sadly, i think that is a idealistic and romanticised picture. If everybody who went to zoos would go hike you wouldnt have any natural habitat left. It would all become hiking trails.
@@shqip_sumejja you got that right - small group of hikers. If anyone would go in the wild to see animals, it wouldn't be a small group anymore. Mass tourism is a real problem in some African parks already
@@alezot6141 I don't know whether mass tourism is better than zoos.. there is not an easy answer to people wanting to see exotic animals. There are just too many people
What part of killing a perfectly healthy giraffe is in any way shape or form Remotely even in the ok I mean they miss this little fact THEY ARE NOT IN The WILD.
Probably not. Zoos will put down animals that are near extinction in the wild because they want their space for some other species that will pull more visitors. It's quicker, easier and cheaper to just kill them. Because zoos are (and have always been) a business. There has never existed a zoo for conservation.
I don't understand the multi-step process for killing the goat. Why not just put it into the lion's area alive and let nature take it's course? Why do you need 5 staff members to euthanize a goat? What a waste of time and resources.
first of all - why couldn’t they just send it to another zoo or release back into the wild Second of all - why did they just feed it to the lions in front of the guests Third of all - I DECLARE THIS ZOO TO BE SHUTDOWN
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What IS disturbing is the separation of typical people and the source of their food. Some children literally believe meat comes from the store, they need to know and respect that an animal DIED for that meal. We have lost all reverence for nature. Thank you to the zoos that are trying to educate my ignorant generation and their offspring.
Yeah! That's why I would rather learn to kill my own food!
People not knowing where their food comes from is disturbing, but not animals having their throats slit or thrown in gas chambers and being hung by their ankles to bleed to death isn't? You sound a bit psychopathic
@@josee.1709 do you think that is possible for those who live in urban environments? Millions of people flooding the forests looking for "natural meat"...
Or are you somehow imagining massive slaughterhouses where people can murder their own animal?
@@lv-lp8bd kids won't understand because they are getting brainwashed by the vegan propaganda. but hopefully when they grow up they will understand
Wait you’re telling me Lions don’t eat candy canes and skittles?!
Maybe Peta, vegans and vegetarians will force and convert those lions 😅
DW documentary channel always introduces excellent subjects such as this video... thanks for sharing
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I hate zoos haven’t stepped in one for over 30 years. It’s a showcase and for the entertainment of people not for the benefit of the animals
You are such a hypocrite! Those of you who are against zoos shouldn't have any kind of animal at home, as domestic animals spend their entire lives inside a backyard and apartment!
Zoos were invented for royalty and the rich for entertainment and not saving endangered
Though i understand where you are coming from. Zoos have changed a lot in 30 years. Surely you dont believe todays zoos are the same as 30 years ago.
Totally agree with you 👍🏼
I agreed, I can’t watch this after 2 minutes. They belong in what wilderness we have left. I don’t support them either
Farmers and hunters sometimes have a difficult time deciding which animals to kill. Nature doesn't have this problem. Most of us have seen the troubling videos of animals that are sick or injured in the wild falling prey to predators. It's a part of the cycle of life.
I think it's important for us to teach this to the next generation because life is definitely not a Disney movie. In the wild, there's no contract or agreement between animals when they have young or sick members. Allowing animals in zoos to breed freely would be very cruel. Enclosures would become overcrowded and parents would breed with their offspring creating sick or deformed animals.
Teaching and showing this in a controlled environment will allow us to keep healthy and happy animals in captivity.
Why I have a feeling you're a proponent of roadside zoos...how can you compare the wild to captivity?
Zoos should not exist in the first place.
Animals r born for the wild .not for zoos
Well what if all the animals in the wild are dead?
El “pedigrí” hace eso pero, los animales fueron puestos en la naturaleza no en cautiverio ésto lo inventó el hombre
Animals would thrive without certain humans.
pretty much most humans
I was on the team that went in and helped rehab the zoo in Baghdad in 2004. Horrifying.... Zero concern for the physical or psychological welfare of the animals they were feeding to the lions.
So sad😪
@@MH-pz8wf They were throwing live donkeys into the lion enclosure, in full view of the rest of the donkeys. They stood there in a pen, trembling with fear. We put a stop to that sh*t. The keepers couldn't grasp why that was a problem.
The there is no Rehabilitation for concentration camps.
Feeding? Obviously not. The dead, living & each are not food, drink or shelter just as dairy milk is not milk & eggs of another species are not for any other species other then what produced it too.
@@Mis-AdventureCH couldn't grasp? Put to words what PROVERBIALLY occured.
DW....wonderful insight on working of modern zoos
Incredibly complex dilemma to handle- DW's coverage is exceptionally even-handed. I can't help but wonder why the male zebra was attacking a female? Males attacking unrelated foals is quite common, but this seems peculiar.
DW you're simply amazing 🤎 you produce the best of content that's informative and educational. Please keep up the good work 👏
If you can't keep them, why upset the eco system in the first place!?
I dont understand with zoo by mona noorchaalida
money, entertainment, then later on conservation. pretty self explanatory
Often it is saving them from poaching and extinction.
@@jumpydino3015 exactly title the world of the circus
Imprisoned, abused, referred to by number, killed at will. Sound familiar? Let's stop imprisoning and abusing animals. This is and has always been inhumane.
You are such a hypocrite! Those of you who are against zoos shouldn't have any kind of animal at home, as domestic animals spend their entire lives inside a backyard and apartment!
@@pedroarthurbarbosa I used to be a hypocrite about this like most people, but I got better informed and I'm now vegan. I don't support zoos or other animal abuse industries. Zoos, like all for-profit animal industries, are shockingly abusive to animals.
Also, unless you abuse, drug, force-breed, imprison and kill your pets, zoo animals and pets are in _very_ different situations.
You think animals in the wild aren't killed at will? Life is not a Disney movie, nature is brutal.
@@shoegal7 Zoos pretend to be Disney movies, but they're neither that, nor nature, and if you don't see that, you live in a fantasy.
Also, lots of things happen in the wild that you'd never want done to you. Things happening in the wild isn't an excuse for humans to manufacture excuses to harm animals for profit.
@@shoegal7 What part of throwing animals in a prison for no reason sounds natural to you?
23:14 Imagine someone castrates you and then makes fun of you how you look. Is that suppose to show the wildlife and teach us how to respect them?
If they really respected animals, they wouldn't have put them in zoos.
This really is a complicated issue, and believe me when i say this is something animalkeepers struggle with everyday. A big part of being a zookeeper is ethics of keeping animals. And most modern zoos are changing, i believe that in the next century or so. Zoos will stop keeping the harder to justify animals. Like great apes, big cats and elephants.
As for the culling of animals. Nothing in life is more natural than death. And when done correctly the culling of an animal isn't a detriment to its wellbeing. The animals live doesn't decrease in quality when it is culled. its live is ended. And it is done painless. And as far as i know that rarely happens in the wild.
They can quit right? There shouldn't even be zoos.
Death by bolt to the head and throat slashing don't sound like painless.
I think it's the culling of young ones that's tough to take. Even with humans, yes, everyone dies, but no one wants to see a kid get cancer or hit by a car or drown. They just got here, after all.
Public senstivity changes over time, but the truth is that we are living increasingly disconnected from nature, which promotes a Disneyfied vision of the wild. We can't afford to do that, when the world is racing towards the 6th mass extinction 😕.
If you ask me, the most important goal of modern zoos is education - but if they try to fit in with the (warped) public expectations, what are they really teaching? So maybe zoos SHOULD talk openly about sensitive topics, such as the fact that carnivores aren't supposed to eat neatly prepared morsels on a silver platter... or such as culling.
6Th MaSs exTiNcTioN lol
You’re absolutely right thank you for your comment. I’m a hunter and fisherman myself was raised this way from day one and I’m 62 years old.
Education is watching documentaries about the wild, not visiting zoos or petting zoos.
@@pohanahawaii documentaries can be educational (though definitely not all are), but imho the notion that they are viable substitutes to live interactions is absolutely ludicrous. We need MORE of the hands-on experience (compatibly with animal welfare and respect of the environment of course), not less; we are engrossed in technology as it is
🕵 Notice that zoos are only "saving" the crowd drawing, profit making species like the typical large cats, bears, apes, elephants, giraffes, colorful birds, cute penguins, etc. If "education" and "conservation" was really their goal and not "entertainment", they'd be teaching the public about veganism and saving these animals' natural habitats and ecosystems rather than this 💩.
Animals in zoos is not stopping animals from extinction. They can never go back to the wild and keeping animals in cages just for "education" is so inappropriate. Learn about these animals in books, not staring at them in cages. Interesting video overall.
Yessssss agreed
Great documentary!!
I’m a meat eater, I don’t like the killing process, I can’t imagine anyone enjoys that…
But just like you say, there’s no connection.
Out of sight out of mind!!
Just like animals we still need our meats, nutritions, irons etc and not all of us want to rely on man made vitamins and supplements, nothing is as good as the real thing.
zebra is quite expensive even as food for people, could buy alot of chicken an
beef with that.
There is a major conflict of interest when zoos cull animals for food. There is then a financial interest to deliberately over breed in order to cut costs. For that reason alone, the practise should be made illegal or at least very difficult. While culling may be unavoidable in some circumstances, zoos should not gain financially from it and in fact should have to pay a substantial fee to be allowed to do it. That way the public could be reassured that the culling was the very last resort.
It makes sense. Naturally animals are going to have lower mortality rates in the safety of the zoo than the wild, but death is all part of the balance and has to be artificially controlled in a zoo.
Allowing animals to experience their natural family structure’s and breeding cycles may be crucial to their long term conservation. If we don’t provide this certain genes could be switched off and we end up with animals who are genetically incompatible with their natural habitat.
while i absolutely hate zoos and would never visit one (the look of animals in captivity makes me too sad), it is such a moral dilemma as to whether you should value the lives of individual animals over the life of a whole species. i think i’m of the opinion that the individual matters more, since breeding and then ‘culling’ the animals seems so cruel to me. it’s so frustrating as we’ve created the conditions for whole species to become extinct in the first place, and so i see that we have a responsibility to keep species alive also. i wish people had more compassion for animals.
Those giraffes belong in Africa, not Europe or American zoos! This dumb thing should be stopped.
Castration is more cruel than culling. They will develop skeletal problems. They will suffer cardiovascular diseases.
I don't understand how this is controversial.
Why not cull the animals that can't be used for breeding and feed them to other animals or zoo visitors?
A very honest and informative video Your reasons to cull makes sense Thank you The cycle of life Amen
You should keep the food chain as natural as possible.
How dare the deadliest animal in the world keep animals captive then murder them simply because it's expedient to do so.
This sucks
Re: "Lifespan of an individual animal comes second to the survival of the species". That's very true and the ultimate goal MUST be survival of the species. OTOH, the sentience of the animal should be taken into consideration. Highly intelligent animals shouldn't just be "put down".
If you insist upon moving animals to a zoo, i believe you are responsible for their lives. That, i believe does not include killing a healthy animal. What vet would willingly put down healthy animals. I don't agree. It is cruel. If that is the future, leave the animals in their natural habitat.
I agree with you completely.
Instead of culling the animals they may consider sending the animals to another zoo. Maybe some other countries.
Travel is so traumatic for animals that they can be permanently mentally messed up from it, especially as long of a journey to another country. Animals can get so stressed from travel they can get seizures (that happened to my cat, and believe me, I only brought him to the vet or he would have died), and the stress can even kill animals. Culling is a far more merciful route, they can die in a much less stressful environment.
@@erikadunne Sorry dear can't digest, traveling could be more stressful than death.
@@erikadunnelol 🤡 … your cat didn’t like going to the vet . Cool story , bro
Why not feed the goats (and zebra) live to the lions, if you wish to give them a more "natural" diet; just do it when visitors aren't in attendance (hell you probably could do it WITH an audience; plenty of people would find a lion doing what is normal in the wild fascinating, especially since you would never get to see something like this unless you went on safari or watched a tape).
Because it causes unnecessary suffering in the live prey. Euthanasia is fast and relatively stress free compared to being put in an enclosure where the prey has no chance at escape and will have a painful death.
Zoos are prisons. Breeding programs for endangered animals shouldn't have to resort to using the animals for entertainment in order to fund themselves.
And how do you suppose they fund themselves?
Side note: I was really disappointed with the Berlin zoo in general the state of the zoo the state of the aquarium was a joke the variety of animals was terrible I come from Ohio in the United States and we're extremely blessed to have several of the top zoos in the country. You guys need to spend millions renovating.
Animals belong to the wild, not zoos!
And if zoos and sanctuaries were gone alongside the wild animals habitat, where would we see them then? Not all zoos and wildlife facilities are bad, think before you judge
Totally agree! It’s sad that we are essentially protecting them from us, humans.
Not those animals
A complicated issue... If zoos didn't exist some animals would become extinct.. In their natural habitat animals are killed by locals. Should Europeans decide for Africans how to run their own countries?
Do you think that zoos and breeding programs have to be the same thing?
Not giraffes, not lions, definitely not zebras.
🌱 If we want to truly save and conserve animals, preserve their habitats and ecosystems, not put them in zoos and petting zoos.
@@vickomen333 if you don't know, many animals have subspecies - some of them are endangered, including giraffes & zebras, and ALL big wild cats are endangered~
RIP Harambe :(
Harambe was an Albanian at heart ❤️
@@shqip_sumejja Harambe is related to Dua Lipa and Rita Orr
Why don't they provide lion with human meat, the earth is overpopulated with humans, why only goats, zebras and some other weak animals.
Overpopulation is globalist propaganda but you're right about feeding them humans, there ain't no difference
Zoos are important for nature conservation
not all.
a vet could also refuse certain practices, how disgusting, killing such defenseless animals and newborns how awful
Zoos motto:
"If you can't visit jungle, We will bring it for you"
This is very eye-opening and I never thought of this issue before. It is also upsetting to see these animals being put down. Is it possible to let people adopt them? (people with the ability and resources to keep them )
stop putting wild animals in cages.its cruel
Zoos should not exist. Animals should be taken care of and protected in their natural environment. Man gives himself the right to feed one animal to another, which he has no right to.
Though admirable, i believe this view of the world is idealistic. Sadly the practical world of conservation of the wild shows that zoos are just necessary. (for now)
@@sleepykeeper breeding programs or zoos? Because you seem to be conflating the two.
That's horrendous, Im so ashamed of my species. Zoos are just Exploiting Enslaved Animals for Greed & Profit. Bad as Seaworld & Factory Farms, I get Carnivores need meat but why not source Elderly Animals. Boycott these awful places.💔 There all about the Money 😥
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People who compare themselves to lions 🤡 Lions NEED MEAT to SURVIVE; HUMANS DON'T.
Then why the hell we keep them captivity ? They can roam around jungle and find their own food like animals did for years. Why should we interfere to it at the first place ?
People do need meat to be healthy
What is the reason for NOT neutering the male's and letting them remain
Why would they? Murdering is way less effort and baby animals bring more money.
Ahhhh...German efficiency
The idea of slaughtering animals in an area that's supposed to embrace respect and their preservation is horrid at the least. If you guys love life's cycle so much, then why not get an animal already killed from the wild. Although I did not appreciate the depth of the killing, I am glad to be educated on the topic because something needs to change.
All baby animals are so cute even more kinder than a people or adult animals
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So why even put the animals in the zoo in the first place
That’s animal cruelty some humans are evil
A lot of y’all in these comments “care” more about animals than actual people you see everyday. Either way the reasons for killing these animals is very unfortunate
Humans are in no way more important than any other animal on this planet! Idk when humans will realize we're not special!
I care more for animals coz humans are despicable and are evil
You people aren't right? These animals are from Africa , where they have several 100 square miles to roam . How many square miles do they have in your zoo. . You need to take the animals home. A zoo is a death camp for wildlife.
I don't like zoos. I feel like it's a prison for animals. animals should be in they're own natural habitat. not in a fake one. I wish people would leave things alone.
Imo, either we have no sympathy or regard for animal’s life and welfare, or we treat them with respect, and only kill to eat, we don’t for example, capture live animals and hold them in cages throughout their lives for our enjoyment. And we treat farmed animals with respect and have rules for ethical treatment. And we do not need to eat meat almost every day.
They better not be killing none of my gorilla friends!
I love the animals and was fortunate as a child to see the "happy side" of zoos, but I don't see the benefit of keeping mammals in captivity. The intentions may have been noble, and it's an great opportunity to raise funds, it's more ethical to keep the in wild. If they're able to preserve DNA of highly endangered species, they would be an option. Keeping animals in unnatural habitats in cages does a lot more harm and is inhumane.
A dilema
Should not keep zoo anymore, this is bad and unfair to animals
I'd argue some zoo animals lead better lifes than they would in the wild. Also without Zoo's many animals will simply go extinct in the coming decades. Zoo's are not perfect, but maybe in this case the alternative is worse
I don’t think healthy endangered animals like a giraffe should be culled at all. I think they might have to look into zoos in other countries to send them too. Or sanctuary’s need to take them but of course it would be ideal for them to be sent to the wild, but I understand that’s not always an option.
Marius was euthanized in Copenhagen Zoo as part of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EAZA), to avoid inbreeding. EAZA spans 41 countries and is involved in the breeding of healthy populations of animals and the choice was made to preserve the species over the individual. The alternative would be to send it to a facility which did not follow EAZA standards, which would be irresponsible.
People are moving in and building on the animals homes.. its not right 😢 what makes us so much morr important then them... They're the innocent ones not us..
Why aren’t the animals released in the wild then? If you cannot keep them then let nature decide what happens to them.
They will die either way the keepers can keep it less painful
We shouldn't be killing, we've choose to keep , love and care for them animals, we should come up with a long lasting plan.
The animals are killed just because there was no other zoo in that country wanted them but there are hundreds of zoos in other countries and continents which are ready to pay a lot of money to buy new animals, so why not offer them these animals? Instead of buying new animals they can just pay the cost of transferring them which can be much lesser.
I think the best concept can be creating some kind of an organization of zoos around the world with a data bank with available animals listed in them and whenever there is an extra and non wanted animal, it can be transferred to another zoo which doesn't have that animal and wants them.
And even if no one wants them they can simply be sent back to their natural habitat in Africa or wherever they have came from.
Such organisations already exist, EAZA in Europe, AZA in North America and so on. The lack of space for male animals is unfortunately a global trend.
Animal trafficking is illegal last I checked.
@@andrasvegh5916 Those organizations only exist in Europe and America which their zoos do not have any lack of animals but there are a lot of zoos in Asia and South America which do not have enough animals and sometimes they buy animals from smugglers. By giving these extra animals to them you can save them and also help to reduce illegal animal trafficking.
So you have mentioned a good point and there must be wider organizations in the world to include the zoos of all continents and international wildlife organizations can help to organize such unions and organizations.
@@vickomen333 I agree, Please read my answer to the other comment to find out my point of view.
Finally. Surplus animals need to be used as food.
This occurs in every husbandry situation. Animals die, and some cannot be supported.
This is ultimate recycling. I wish it wasn’t so, but the alternative is to let worms and decay take them. Worse yet, they are discarded in an incinerator.
Thank you for the documentary. Now I know the zoo sometimes has to kill the animal too. It's part of the nature. Not the enjoyable part, but we cannot just pass by it.
Zoos killing animals is a very European thing.
Oh ya by mona noorchaalida
I don't understand why the gorilla is castrated. Is it really not possible to take these animals to Africa?
Guess you missed the part where they said they tried that. No room for males there either.
@@jbielic4067 I didn't miss that I caught that as well. But I really find this hard to believe. I thought gorillas critically endangered? Of course there's room, they just didn't look hard enough/ or it didn't meet Western standards.
@@KurlandHickory I find it hard to believe too. Africa is a vast continent there must be space for them.
@@KurlandHickory They are endangered because of habitat degradation and poaching. Less habitat -> fewer gorillas. Also, releasing an animal used to humans with no survival skills will result in either its death or the death of local people, or perhaps both.
@@KurlandHickory You are splendidly ignorant
The PETA approach.
20:26 Elephant birth. Looks surprisingly speedy.
This is cruel and terrible.. these animals should be place back in there naturel environment. These ppl are cruel as well.. They seem to be use to doing this . Like it's. Natural 😢😢😢😢😢.
This man is cruel.. and If it where his fam.. it wouldn't be human.
Great idea - let's "realease" animals that have no survival skills in a shrinking natural habitat where their wild countrepart already struggle to survive as it is. That's gonna end well...
@@alezot6141 .. Well it's better than killing a perfectly healthy animal.. bye!
@@tWz4462 Perfectly healthy animals are killed every single day in the wild. And unless you are vegan, you also contribute to the killing of healthy animals.
@@tWz4462 Slow stagnation is humane?🙄
@@tWz4462 right, because animals in the wild don't suffer horrific deaths ...
It says no other zoos need the Pygmy goats there are LOTS of people with farms that love them petting zoos ect. They could work with Rspca to get them housed and get home checks done it’s not like there lions thete goats
Amazing DW....................
Showing this to children is disturbing.
Circle of life.
If people worried as much about other people as they do animal welfare, the world would be a better place.
That's a cute bumper sticker but it is faaaaar from true.
I have seen pictures of dogs fighting to the death and people laughing over it. I've seen cats with their tails tied together thrown over a clothes line. I've been in the car while someone PURPOSELY swerved to hit a raccoon. I can buy permits to track and kill many different animals.
Most people, my dear eMom, couldn't give a flying fig about animals. Many dont even pretend to.
Right.
If people cared about something other than themselves and the human race for even a second the world would be a better place.
give the animal to other country..am sure many zoos want them.
That's horrible!!
We have over population problem of humans too. Can't we fed animals with humans ? I think, they would like to have different taste and sure they will be happy. We can feed them live humans and see the dignity and talent of hunting too. At the end we are eliminating all possible ways of natural population control pattern of the nature and complaining about the over population. We are a sin to the nature.
I hope the lion meat is put to good use. I would absolutely love to try lion. I bet they could raise a lot of money selling meat.
Is not healthy eating meat that eats meats.
@@Spiritualwarfare587 It's not healthy to eat candy either 😂
Do people really think lions should eat vegetables ? lol Zoos aren't a Disney movie. i would actually feed all the predators live prey in order to suppress domestication and invoke exercise and instinct. Live prey would also create a tourist attraction and it would also bring more income to take better care of the animals.
I don't understand why people don't just go to the animals natural habitat instead of going to these zoos 🤔🤔
Because tourisme ruins the natural habitats of animals.
@@sleepykeeper it depends. If locals see lot of tourist then they build hotels and ruin area but if just small group of hikers is harmless
@@shqip_sumejja Sadly, i think that is a idealistic and romanticised picture. If everybody who went to zoos would go hike you wouldnt have any natural habitat left. It would all become hiking trails.
@@shqip_sumejja you got that right - small group of hikers. If anyone would go in the wild to see animals, it wouldn't be a small group anymore. Mass tourism is a real problem in some African parks already
@@alezot6141 I don't know whether mass tourism is better than zoos.. there is not an easy answer to people wanting to see exotic animals. There are just too many people
No zoo is involved in crime. If a zoo has been MISAPPROPRIATED it is still a zoo.
Killing or molestation of any sort is unnatural. Press charges.
Terrible
Can you just make one of your islands to be a free safari for these zoo who don't want anymore.
I guess the same mindset was for the human zoos as well, of the 1800 and 1900.
Zoo is a prison for animals,Isn’t it? Just a another business for human animals
Very sad, poor babiesIts like being in Jail
This is just so terrible I’m so glad we still have good zoos out there
Disgusting sorry but I don't agree with killing perfectly healthy animals very cruel to slaughter them just to feed other animals
An option: taking those animals and sell them to narcos, in that way animals not dye and zoo get financiation
All these people trying to justify having a zoo... like all those people in the past justifying human slavery. Seriously lacking a moral compass.
Its a shame we don't have any zoos in Kenya
Why would you need zoos if you have natural parks?
It's a shame we still have zoos in America
In Canada we have both. Different types of animals.
@@maxwelllewis4486 we do have national parks and an animal orphanage which is the closest thing to a zoo
@@nadiaborges. I think you meant to say National parks, but I want to see a bear, moose, penguin, bison, llama, jaguar, reindeer and etc in real life
What part of killing a perfectly healthy giraffe is in any way shape or form Remotely even in the ok I mean they miss this little fact THEY ARE NOT IN The WILD.
So, there weren’t any other zoos in the entire world that would buy a giraffe? Or a zebra? Not one?
Probably not. Zoos will put down animals that are near extinction in the wild because they want their space for some other species that will pull more visitors. It's quicker, easier and cheaper to just kill them. Because zoos are (and have always been) a business. There has never existed a zoo for conservation.
Animals belong to wild
I don't understand the multi-step process for killing the goat. Why not just put it into the lion's area alive and let nature take it's course? Why do you need 5 staff members to euthanize a goat? What a waste of time and resources.
Live feeding is illegal in many nations. They are legally required to kill the animal first.
@@RubberJunk1 Ok. Thanks.
first of all - why couldn’t they just send it to another zoo or release back into the wild Second of all - why did they just feed it to the lions in front of the guests Third of all - I DECLARE THIS ZOO TO BE SHUTDOWN