The Caring Mother Nature/Zoo by Barbora Kasparova

Would it not be a nice idea to go to the Zoo with your kids on a lovely Sunday afternoon and see all the wild animals, explore their natural surrounding, see them behave, even give your kids a little lesson & simply have a pleasant time together? Now, put yourself into the role of the animal. You're predisposed to be running wild, perhaps kilometers a day, catching your prey and then having a nice feast with your young ones. Well, that stays just a dream of yours, if you're in a Zoo. And the worst case scenario is that you're in the Zoo where people don't take proper care of you. In the USA it is the 1)AZA (the Association of Zoos and Aquariums & www.aza.org), a non-profit organization whose goal is to issue accreditation for zoos and aquariums, and the 2)U.S. department of Agriculture inspecting zoos annually, that supervise the animal well being in the zoos. Despite their effort, sometimes the human factor fails. It was so in the Buffalo Zoo in New York, where 3 polar bears died under circumstances that raised suspicion in the period of little more than a year. Several steps have been taken as to question the accreditation of the Buffalo Zoo and the USDA is working with the Zoo to smooth out the troubles. And the message from the animals? You brought us here, treat us right and do your best, for goodness sake!

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071121/ap_on_re_us/polar_bear_deaths;_ylt=AuFrnsw0ivo8eyWYXcnYPzes0NUE

by Barbora Kasparova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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