The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #98488   Message #1951464
Posted By: Charley Noble
29-Jan-07 - 02:29 PM
Thread Name: BS: Tigers-Piglets-Urban Myth
Subject: RE: BS: Tigers-Piglets-Urban Myth
Bainbo-

I certainly agree with you that there's something repulsive about dressing up the piglets in tigerskins and presenting them with their foster tiger mother as entertainment. It really should be enough to see tiger mothers raising tigers in a display area that approximates wild habitat. I'm not against well designed exhibition of wild animals in general. It's probably better that people see these animals in "zoos" than intrude on the few remaining wild areas, and start feeding them hotdogs!

I do like web cams as they provide us almost unlimited access to what is going on in a nest or den, with a minimum of human intervention, and sometimes they even generate proceedes which are used to defend and expand wildlife habitat.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble