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Dublin Zoo, guilty of stupidity and greed.

category dublin | animal rights | opinion/analysis author Friday August 09, 2013 23:02author by Bernie Wright - Alliance for Animal Rights-AFARauthor email bigbrownrat at gmail dot comauthor address AFAR. PO box 4734. D 1 Report this post to the editors

Zoo animal prisons are morally wrong and should be consigned to history

AFAR wish to condemn the incident at Dublin zoo which occurred two days ago which left a two year old child unconscious, and with deep stomach and arm injuries caused by an animal attack by a Tapir . Apart from the obvious stupidity of allowing a child into an enclosure confining a wild animal with their young, Dublin Zoo is guilty of imprisoning, confining, drugging and using wild animals for profit on an ongoing basis.
They [Dublin Zoo] admit themselves on their website that tapirs are always found near water and usually run into rivers to escape predators such as the jaguar. Where could this Mother and newborn escape to in the Zoo enclosure, to flee from what most likely was perceived as a threat from hearing the human child scream.
Zoos, prisons for the innocent...always
Zoos, prisons for the innocent...always


They [Dublin Zoo] admit themselves on their website that tapirs are always found near water and usually run into rivers to escape predators such as the jaguar. Where could this Mother and newborn escape to in the Zoo enclosure, to flee from what most likely was perceived as a threat from hearing the human child scream.
The animals have no choice nor have they committed any crime to be deprived of their natural habitat and freedom by Dublin Zoo, simply to amuse people lacking in empathy who visit these animal prisons.
We in AFAR urge people to consider the animals deprivation and unnatural lives, the only option the animals have are to stay confined regardless of whatever spin the Zoo put on their actions with their fluffy television programmes. Zoos do not care about their prisoners, they just want to make money off the misery of the unfortunate animals.
AFAR wants ‘menageries ‘ to be a thing of the past. Non-human animals have the right to live their lives in their natural surroundings without fear , confinement and persecution by humans for any reason.
Travel and Nature films are more real than seeing distressed psychotic animals in Dublin Zoo.
• We offer our sympathies to the injured child for being involved in this serious ill-thought out dangerous event staged by DUBLIN Zoo staff. The child’s mother was also wounded after attempting to bring a halt to the extremely rare attack from the usually docile creature, which occurred during a supervised “encounter” visit to the Brazilian tapir enclosure

Bernie Wright, Press Officer AFAR.
Some previous events.
• Rio, the female tapir, arrived at Dublin Zoo from Marwell Wildlife in the UK to join Marmaduke. They’ve obviously hit it off well. [Tapirs parents.]
• Dublin Zoo admits to giving Prozac and Valium to the animals to ‘encourage them to interact’ 1998
• A wolf was shot dead - because he ‘tried to escape’ - and 8 wolf cubs were put down, as the zoo had no room for them -2000
• A female Hippo dies after eating a tennis ball that was thrown into her enclosure-2002
• A teenage girl is mauled by Siberian Tiger after she scaled two fences and stuck her arm into enclosure. How did she manage to do all this without being spotted by zoo staff?-2006
• A Gibbon escaped, with her baby, from their island to the main zoo complex, but was recaptured half an hour later by staff.-2010
• DUBLIN ZOO KEEPER David Douglas, was a dog fighter and drug dealer - see: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/ireland/articl...2.ece

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