Also zoos take in animals that are injured or otherwise unable to be rehabilitated to the wild, often as part of breeding programs, so it’s not like “we captured a wild X to breed it”.
If you look further at the article you’ll find it’s hardly an exception:
but executive director Dr Lesley Dickie estimates that somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 animals are “management-euthanised” in European zoos in any given year.
Also zoos take in animals that are injured or otherwise unable to be rehabilitated to the wild, often as part of breeding programs, so it’s not like “we captured a wild X to breed it”.
Yet zoos also kill perfectly healthy creatures, however, because they are seen as “surplus”
So it’s not like they are being just held there while they are healing and then released once they are healed
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26356099
This comment seems more like an inflammatory responses based on the wording used
It doesn’t seem like a logical response at all
This is bizarre. Why do European zoos refuse to use contraception as population control rather than… Well I hope that giraffe was the exception.
Odd but I think the US zoos are slightly more ethical on this one.
If you look further at the article you’ll find it’s hardly an exception: