I saw this, about 17 years ago, visiting the Houston Texas Zoo. It was a black panther in a very small cage. A sign was posted indicating she had a skin condition. I wondered if it was due to stress. You or I would go crazy in such a confined space. These creatures are meant to roam for miles.
Actually, there ARE people kept locked up in small places like that! You see, there exist prisons in America in which the inmates are kept in tiny cells in solitary confinement for at least 22 hours per day. These prisons are called "Supermax" -- short for "Super-Maximum Security". And yes, one of the abnormal behaviors that are common in Supermax prisons such as the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison in California and ADX Florence (the federal Supermax) in Colorado is pacing -- just like what is seen in many zoo animals!
I also exhibit signs of this behavior, small apartment, mean neighbors, no human contact, I feel so isolated and fearful of people that I can't go out for walks so I pace, though in all honesty my problem is a psychological if not an empathic one, the animals must be respected for their needs or I fear the world may isolate itself to death.
I do pacing and turning on my eight hours kitchen shift when there is no orders to make. Just back and forth until some one sees me and i switch to doing something else. They live there in that cage for the rest of their life. Imagine the joy if they could just run. They would run like forest gump on that epic run. And i would say. Run ! My beautiful animal, run. Just run. ( tears).
Sein Blick ist vom Vorübergehn der Stäbe so müd geworden, daß er nichts mehr hält. Ihm ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gäbe und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt. Der weiche Gang geschmeidig starker Schritte, der sich im allerkleinsten Kreise dreht, ist wie ein Tanz von Kraft um eine Mitte, in der betäubt ein großer Wille steht. Nur manchmal schiebt der Vorhang der Pupille sich lautlos auf -. Dann geht ein Bild hinein, geht durch der Glieder angespannte Stille - und hört im Herzen auf zu sein.
What kind of horrible enclosures are those even? D: Some seemed okay, like the bear enclosure, but the others... That's like solitary confinement. I remember the last time I went to a zoo I was 12-14 years old. We went to a large zoo in a different town. I was used to our town zoo with large, large enclosures where seeing the animals pop out from inside the trees was a rare treat. It was dull, I thought as a child. I wanted to see the animals. And, at that other zoo, I got to... and I very much missed watching dull trees with glimpses of animals. I was uncomfortable a few small, exposed exhibits in already - but what really got me was the tiger enclosure. Concrete hole in the ground with a mote between tigers and guests for good measure. One tiger spent the -entire- time pacing along the lake and staring up at us, occasionally growling. I told my mom, "If someone falls in there, they're gonna be lunch." Because that was the look of a tiger that had spent the last 10 years looking at an unreachable, racous and annoying, buffét it couldn't get to. I wanted to go home after seeing that tiger, since breaking him out wasn't an option. It was so -obviously- stressed to anyone who has ever owned a pet, if not suffered from anxiety themsevlves. And yet all the adults stupidly laughed at the silly tiger and taught their children it was okay. Blech.
I think that all of the REALLY BAD enclosures we saw in this video are in roadside zoos. Roadside zoos are ESPECIALLY terrible to the animals that live in them. Here's one link to a PETA article about roadside zoos. While I don't subscribe to many of the things that PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) suggests such as going vegan, I DO agree with them about the horrors of these places. www.peta.org/living/entertainment/roadside-zoos-facts/
I saw this, about 17 years ago, visiting the Houston Texas Zoo. It was a black panther in a very small cage. A sign was posted indicating she had a skin condition. I wondered if it was due to stress. You or I would go crazy in such a confined space. These creatures are meant to roam for miles.
If we were locked up in a cage or such a small place like that, I guess pacing and circling would be the only thing left for us to do...
Actually, there ARE people kept locked up in small places like that! You see, there exist prisons in America in which the inmates are kept in tiny cells in solitary confinement for at least 22 hours per day. These prisons are called "Supermax" -- short for "Super-Maximum Security". And yes, one of the abnormal behaviors that are common in Supermax prisons such as the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison in California and ADX Florence (the federal Supermax) in Colorado is pacing -- just like what is seen in many zoo animals!
I also exhibit signs of this behavior, small apartment, mean neighbors, no human contact, I feel so isolated and fearful of people that I can't go out for walks so I pace, though in all honesty my problem is a psychological if not an empathic one, the animals must be respected for their needs or I fear the world may isolate itself to death.
FlutterShaman yes me too
I do pacing and turning on my eight hours kitchen shift when there is no orders to make. Just back and forth until some one sees me and i switch to doing something else. They live there in that cage for the rest of their life. Imagine the joy if they could just run. They would run like forest gump on that epic run. And i would say. Run ! My beautiful animal, run. Just run. ( tears).
It upsets me when I see these things happening
Ella Szplit
So it's been a year. Have you done anything about it?
Sein Blick ist vom Vorübergehn der Stäbe
so müd geworden, daß er nichts mehr hält.
Ihm ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gäbe
und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt.
Der weiche Gang geschmeidig starker Schritte,
der sich im allerkleinsten Kreise dreht,
ist wie ein Tanz von Kraft um eine Mitte,
in der betäubt ein großer Wille steht.
Nur manchmal schiebt der Vorhang der Pupille
sich lautlos auf -. Dann geht ein Bild hinein,
geht durch der Glieder angespannte Stille -
und hört im Herzen auf zu sein.
What a nightmare.
What kind of horrible enclosures are those even? D: Some seemed okay, like the bear enclosure, but the others... That's like solitary confinement.
I remember the last time I went to a zoo I was 12-14 years old. We went to a large zoo in a different town. I was used to our town zoo with large, large enclosures where seeing the animals pop out from inside the trees was a rare treat. It was dull, I thought as a child. I wanted to see the animals. And, at that other zoo, I got to... and I very much missed watching dull trees with glimpses of animals. I was uncomfortable a few small, exposed exhibits in already - but what really got me was the tiger enclosure. Concrete hole in the ground with a mote between tigers and guests for good measure. One tiger spent the -entire- time pacing along the lake and staring up at us, occasionally growling.
I told my mom, "If someone falls in there, they're gonna be lunch." Because that was the look of a tiger that had spent the last 10 years looking at an unreachable, racous and annoying, buffét it couldn't get to. I wanted to go home after seeing that tiger, since breaking him out wasn't an option. It was so -obviously- stressed to anyone who has ever owned a pet, if not suffered from anxiety themsevlves. And yet all the adults stupidly laughed at the silly tiger and taught their children it was okay. Blech.
I think that all of the REALLY BAD enclosures we saw in this video are in roadside zoos. Roadside zoos are ESPECIALLY terrible to the animals that live in them. Here's one link to a PETA article about roadside zoos. While I don't subscribe to many of the things that PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) suggests such as going vegan, I DO agree with them about the horrors of these places. www.peta.org/living/entertainment/roadside-zoos-facts/
we all want to run free
but we're all trapped aren't we
I'm starting to believe they don't take good care of their animals because of this
All I can think of is how they feel 😪😥😓😭
Thanks for sharing this
these cats need love and enrichment!
Thanks for sharing
this is very sad to see
there is NOTHING in any of these enclosure, most of the pacing shown on this video is out of boredom!!!
its modern day animal cruelty,,, and if u don't think that than try,,,:)
I've seen bigger enclosures than that!
There are two types of zoos free range zoos the good ones and roadside zoos the. bad ones
An abnormal normality :(
i see humans do this too