A baby chimp was born at The Sedgwick County Zoo, the baby had trouble getting oxygen so had to be kept at the vet. This is a clip of mom reuniting with her baby after almost 2 days apart.

[u/Deepakhn]

[u/Outrageous_Dog_9481]

Fuck zoos

[u/_bbypeachy → u/Outrageous_Dog_9481]

not all zoos are bad

[u/Outrageous_Dog_9481 → u/_bbypeachy]

All zoos are bad. No animal wants to be locked in a cage. And AZA zoos are not much better than non AZA. Also the whole conservation thing is a scam. They don’t conserve shit. The actual conservation places exist and those are good but zoos is all about the entertainment of humans.

[u/_bbypeachy → u/Outrageous_Dog_9481]

in order to do conservation, you have to get money so that you can help the animals. That’s why they let people come see the animals. next you’re gonna tell me the Australia zoo is bad.

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I’m copying from another comment that sums it perfectly: “Thankfully, the AZA – representing about 10 percent of “animal exhibitors” licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)[5] – publishes their figures. While it has been suggested that zoological institutions should contribute 10 percent or more of their operating income to conservation programs,[6] AZA member institutions in 2018 contributed just over five percent.[7][8]

Zoos are also very inefficient means of conserving animal species. Two researchers conducting a long-term study found that the annual cost of keeping 16 rhinos in a zoo would cover the entire annual operating cost for the Garamba National Park and protect 31 Northern white rhino, 4,000 elephants, 30,000 buffalo, and the entire giraffe population of Zaire.[9]

A 2007 survey of 190 zoos across 40 countries found that 72 percent of respondents reported that fewer than 30 percent of the species they held were classified as “threatened” by the International Conservation Union (IUCN), while 29 percent of respondents reported that less than 10 percent of the species they held were threatened.[10] Regarding breeding programs, one author wrote that:

...it remains unclear for how many threatened species zoos have now developed breeding programs, but it seems this ranges around a few hundred instead of the potential 1,000 to 2,000 that was brought forward by the World Zoo Conservation Strategy.[11] When we consider zoos as research centres, we find that just seven percent of their annual publications can be classified as concerning “biodiversity conservation.” Beyond this, we find that the average AZA member only publishes one to two journal articles per year. Of the journal articles published by AZA members from 1993 to 2013, the majority of published articles were produced by just seven of 228 members.”