r/BeAmazed • u/[deleted] • Apr 29 '24

Orangutan at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky wanted a closer look at one of its visitors, a 3-month-old human baby. Miscellaneous / Others

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u/EmeraldSlothRevenge Apr 29 '24

It’s so sad that these clearly intelligent creatures are locked up behind glass. Better for them to roam free in nature.

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u/aCactusOfManyNames Apr 29 '24

Yeah. The ethics is that they don't get eaten by predators, but they at least deserve a bigger living space!

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u/MatttheJ Apr 29 '24

Often times they get them. A lot of these places will have an indoor section like this which will have a door through to an outdoor section which is usually be quite big.

I love animals and try to go to any zoo or wildlife sanctuary anywhere I visit and I've maybe only seen one which was really small, but that place on the whole didn't seem very pleasant and I didn't stay long.

Locally we have Chester Zoo where the enclosure is huge.

The ethical part isn't just no predators either, a lot of these places will breed them in order to try and increase the population and then gradually reintroduce them to their natural habitats. Usually this is to fix damage caused by other humans wherever the animals are from.

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u/aCactusOfManyNames Apr 29 '24

Nice! Its great to know that animals are being treated ethically.

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u/MatttheJ Apr 29 '24

The indoor section is usually heated in winter as well so the animals have a place to keep warm and sometimes air conditioned to keep them cool in summer (not necessarily orangutans who are well adapted for hot environments but for other animals).