Some video on facebook of a ridiculous elk or something playing in a puddle of water. It’s awesome.
January252013
January222013
A Humboldt penguin in the Atacama Desert. (Untamed Americas - NGC)
nothing to see here
December172012
My Girlfriend’s Happy Niece = Dying Kitty
August242012
Nature Study - Lesson XIII
we are wild
in the night
wild when her
scent is detected
rave about his
rock-like gait
we run to the dark
home of animals
similar to us
August212012
- Michael Cenci
July132012
I started drawing again.
May312012
If there are criticisms, they are that zoos are not transforming their mission quickly enough from entertainment to conservation.
“We as a society have to decide if it is going to be ethically and morally appropriate to simply display animals for entertainment purposes,” said Dr. Steven L. Monfort, the director of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, part of the National Zoo in Washington. “In my opinion, that model is broken. There needs to be an explicit role for zoos to champion species.”
Dr. Monfort wants zoos to raise more money for the conservation of animals in the wild and to make that effort as important as erecting fancier accommodations for their captive collections. Zoos, he said, should build facilities — not necessarily open to the public — that are large enough to handle whole herds of animals so that more natural reproductive behavior can occur.
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