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This Gorilla Really Wants To See Your Vacation Pics On Your Phone
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Jelani, a silverback gorilla at Louisville Zoo, Kentucky, likes to look at photos on visitor’s phones. Video editor Paul Ross spied this ape in action during a recent visit to the zoo, looking at photos of other gorillas on a young man’s smartphone and even motioning him to keep scrolling.
“I stumbled upon the boy sharing pictures with Jelani touring the zoo with my one-year-old daughter,” Ross told Daily Mail. “The boy was scrolling through gorilla pictures, and Jelani would motion with his hand to move to the next photo.” Encounters like these make you feel a little sad that such an intelligent creature is in a zoo!
More info: louisvillezoo.org | YouTube (h/t: petapixel)
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ZOOS SUCK!
Yes and no. Bad zoos suck. Good zoos are helping to save many species from extinction, as well as teaching us humans to respect our neighbours on this planets.
I just as humans we have this odd desire to control everything. especially animals. lets catch them put them in a cage; or, oh look how cute that weasel is! hey, lets catch it breed it and call it a "ferret". And then of course there is the circus.....and my recent favorite are the new designer breeds of dogs, "labradoodle" "puggle" ugh......and they sell for 1500 bucks!! all they are are mutts with cute names, but people breed because they want money. its a shame that they probably could have adopted a mutt from local shelter, but instead the humans have a fancy "breed" of dog, and the little guy in the shelter was euthanized. okay, whew....i guess i needed to vent! Namaste'
lari the reason many of the animals in the zoo that are endangered (including this gorilla) is that they simply aren't safe in the wild due to poaching.
Whenever animals are used for profit, their needs will always be sacrificed before a profit is. that's simply a rule of economics. I hope we clse all zoos that hold wild animals in them. We don't need them anymore.
Actually that's not entirely true. There is no need for zoos in this day and age. Animals do far better in sanctuaries which are purpose built for breed and release programs. Zoos are horrible and there is no respect for the animals. Imagine you had to sit behind glass being stared at and have lights flashing in your eyes all day every day? I bet you wouldn't do too well.
The public being complacent about sentient beings and all other forms of wildlife being kept in small cages to be gawked at by humans, in completely unnatural habitats is not teaching anyone to respect anything. All it does is reinforce the arrogant idea that the human race is somehow superior to all other living beings on this planet and entitled to kidnapping and detaining any living creature with impunity at any time. Perhaps you would endorse the idea of bringing back human zoos as well? Yes. This was a thing. And not all that long ago either, the last one finally shutting down in the 1950's (if you don't count Germany's attempt in 2006 to showcase a similarly disgusting display of elitism) Google it. Sanctuaries and protected wildlife reserves are far more humane. What is the point of saving a species from extinction if the only survivors remain captive prisoners, forced to procreate by means of artificial insemination in a micro sized artificial environment?
I think that zoos should be larger. I understand if they don't have enough money, but they should at least try
The Vancouver Aquarium is home only to rescued animals and is responsible for rehabilitation or else becomes permanent home to those deemed "un-releasable" for health reasons.
they do but hunters and poachers suck more!!
Zoos are where people begin - often at an early age - to understand their fellow beasts at a very basic level. It's also where people - well into their careers - further come to understand them in new and complex ways, as zoos provide essential funding towards research to enthused individuals that didn't become zoologists for the fortune, and all the while dedicate a huge portion of their lives to knowing and caring for animals deeper than any of us can be dared to criticize them over. It's sad and unfair for the individuals that lose their right to live in their homelands, with their original families, in their original pursuits, only to be trapped in cages for their lifetimes....but their unwilling sacrifice has saved and improved the lives of countless animals around the world. There's an important message to get across and we can't stifle it simply because we don't like the voice.
I would like u to know that at the Salisbury zoo where I volunteer the animals are all born in captivity so they would not know how to survive or we take on ingerd animals that can't be realest because of its disability and all the animals at the zoo have habitates larger then they really need and are provided with enrichment activitys which are disined to simulate what they would do in the wild we also had one of the world's longest living Andean bear and all our animals enjoy long happy lives
yeah, but it saves them from killer dentist!!! they just need to be designed more like the jungle, not like urban housing projects.
Now that's one BoredGorilla!
he needs a tv screen with NatGeo and Animal Planet on it. or cams of other animals.
he/she needs a computer, ya know the ones we all started with. we shall make Grodd a real thing!
Poor Gorilla.
ZOOS SUCK!
Yes and no. Bad zoos suck. Good zoos are helping to save many species from extinction, as well as teaching us humans to respect our neighbours on this planets.
I just as humans we have this odd desire to control everything. especially animals. lets catch them put them in a cage; or, oh look how cute that weasel is! hey, lets catch it breed it and call it a "ferret". And then of course there is the circus.....and my recent favorite are the new designer breeds of dogs, "labradoodle" "puggle" ugh......and they sell for 1500 bucks!! all they are are mutts with cute names, but people breed because they want money. its a shame that they probably could have adopted a mutt from local shelter, but instead the humans have a fancy "breed" of dog, and the little guy in the shelter was euthanized. okay, whew....i guess i needed to vent! Namaste'
lari the reason many of the animals in the zoo that are endangered (including this gorilla) is that they simply aren't safe in the wild due to poaching.
Whenever animals are used for profit, their needs will always be sacrificed before a profit is. that's simply a rule of economics. I hope we clse all zoos that hold wild animals in them. We don't need them anymore.
Actually that's not entirely true. There is no need for zoos in this day and age. Animals do far better in sanctuaries which are purpose built for breed and release programs. Zoos are horrible and there is no respect for the animals. Imagine you had to sit behind glass being stared at and have lights flashing in your eyes all day every day? I bet you wouldn't do too well.
The public being complacent about sentient beings and all other forms of wildlife being kept in small cages to be gawked at by humans, in completely unnatural habitats is not teaching anyone to respect anything. All it does is reinforce the arrogant idea that the human race is somehow superior to all other living beings on this planet and entitled to kidnapping and detaining any living creature with impunity at any time. Perhaps you would endorse the idea of bringing back human zoos as well? Yes. This was a thing. And not all that long ago either, the last one finally shutting down in the 1950's (if you don't count Germany's attempt in 2006 to showcase a similarly disgusting display of elitism) Google it. Sanctuaries and protected wildlife reserves are far more humane. What is the point of saving a species from extinction if the only survivors remain captive prisoners, forced to procreate by means of artificial insemination in a micro sized artificial environment?
I think that zoos should be larger. I understand if they don't have enough money, but they should at least try
The Vancouver Aquarium is home only to rescued animals and is responsible for rehabilitation or else becomes permanent home to those deemed "un-releasable" for health reasons.
they do but hunters and poachers suck more!!
Zoos are where people begin - often at an early age - to understand their fellow beasts at a very basic level. It's also where people - well into their careers - further come to understand them in new and complex ways, as zoos provide essential funding towards research to enthused individuals that didn't become zoologists for the fortune, and all the while dedicate a huge portion of their lives to knowing and caring for animals deeper than any of us can be dared to criticize them over. It's sad and unfair for the individuals that lose their right to live in their homelands, with their original families, in their original pursuits, only to be trapped in cages for their lifetimes....but their unwilling sacrifice has saved and improved the lives of countless animals around the world. There's an important message to get across and we can't stifle it simply because we don't like the voice.
I would like u to know that at the Salisbury zoo where I volunteer the animals are all born in captivity so they would not know how to survive or we take on ingerd animals that can't be realest because of its disability and all the animals at the zoo have habitates larger then they really need and are provided with enrichment activitys which are disined to simulate what they would do in the wild we also had one of the world's longest living Andean bear and all our animals enjoy long happy lives
yeah, but it saves them from killer dentist!!! they just need to be designed more like the jungle, not like urban housing projects.
Now that's one BoredGorilla!
he needs a tv screen with NatGeo and Animal Planet on it. or cams of other animals.
he/she needs a computer, ya know the ones we all started with. we shall make Grodd a real thing!
Poor Gorilla.