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Zoo Gorillas Dying
Scientists are studying why gorillas are dying of heart
disease in US zoos. It is often the pseudoscientist vivisectors
who are the problem inflicting pain in their research.
1. They have a nonnatural environment..
few trees... they live on concrete behind bars
.. many in small areas.
2. They are captive
3. They are often isolated
4. Human beings gawk and gape at them
5. They are often secretly the subject of vivisection (animal research). At
best they are subjected
to ecocardiograms. At worst are unspeakable actions. Until exposed, the San
Diego Zoo was sending
primates for research to Univ of Calif at Davis. The Washington Zoo has secret
relationships with
National Institutes of Health. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta has
secret primate
research at Yerkes.
6. They get virtually no exercise compared to their natural environment.
7. Captivity itself reduces life expectancy.
Gorillas in the wild if not subjected to poachers, pollution and habitat
destruction
have as long a life expectancy as human beings. But gorillas in zoos live only
into their 40's or 50's.
8. Some of the 300 odd gorillas in American zoos (an older figure not
necessarily accurate now) are the children of captive
parents. There is inbreeding from a much smaller gene pool.
9. They are not given their ideal diet of fruits, nuts, sometimes leaves.
10. Human chauvinist researchers treat the animals as objects. Sensitive
gorillas perceive this. For example, why is it that a human cadaver inspection
is called an autopsy while a primate cadaver inspection is called a necropsy?
In the Netherlands, many baboons are on
strike.http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/tren ... on-st\
rike.html
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/an ... t-mel\
bourne-zoo-20130718-2q5oy.html
Rigo, silverback gorilla, dead at 42 in Melbourne zoo
Brooks .. 21 years old dead at 21 in Cleveland Ohio zoo
Many baboons at Netherlands zoo go on strike
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/tren ... ke.ht\
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scientists study why gorillas are dying of heart disease in zoos
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nat ... risk_N.htm
