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Zoos
At the Bronx Zoo in New York City humans walk on restricted pathways and look at animals strolling, nibbling grass or hiding coyly behind bushes. Sometimes the animals stare back, but most often they go about their business and ignore the two-legged creatures wandering past their home. Of course there are fences, but if someone were to arrive there from another planet it would be hard for them to tell who was fenced in and who fenced out.
The most spectacular, and most popular, exhibit at the Bronx Zoo is the gorilla enclave. Tourists are led through corridors with educational displays on the walls until they arrive at the place where they are required to pay their entrance fee. At that point they are given the choice of how they want their particular donation to be spent – on education, ecological projects or research. When they have completed that task they go into a small amphitheater where they watch a short movie about the lives of the gorillas complete with admonitions about the necessity of preserving their habitats. Finally the screen goes up, the curtains are pulled aside and members of the audience gasp as they find themselves facing a wall of glass behind which families of gorillas are going about their business much as they would in the wild. As the visitors walk on past more glass walls, with more gorillas on view romping, confronting one another or feeding their babies, the two sets of creatures – with so much DNA in common – are clearly fascinated by one another. Sometimes the gorillas come up to the glass and look straight into the eyes of a visitor, who then finds it almost impossible to look away.
This is a far, far cry from the old days when zoos consisted of small concrete cages with iron bars and when no attempt was made to simulate, for the obviously bored and miserable animals, some resemblance to their natural habitat. The people were the important ones then, not the animals. Today that is reversed and it is clear that both parties are better off.
Every large city today has a zoo designed something along the lines of the Bronx Zoo. The San Diego Zoo has a “Panda Cam” so that those shy animals can be seen up close without feeling hemmed in by people and a Tiger River area in which people hike up a canyon trail alongside rain forest enclosures with Indochinese tigers and Malaysian tapirs.
The Philadelphia Zoo has an outdoor aviary and a camel safari. Over 1.2 million people annually visit the Cincinnati Zoo and see 510 species of animals in a 75 acre area. Some zoos offer special events such as the Safari Sleepover (one adult to ten kids) at the Jacksonville Zoo. The Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, in existence since 1868, is home to two baby Guam Micronesian kingfishers.
Only 59 of these rare birds are known to exist, all in captivity. The Lincoln has hopes of one day being able, through their hatchlings, to reintroduce this species to its natural habitat.
The world is full of wonderful Zoos, go to them; learn and teach your children and help keep the animals from reaching extinction.
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