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So why are they always trying to capture these wild animals?

posted 17 years ago by ipdailey
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I got a DVD with about 20 episodes as they go after giraffes, hippopotami, and other wild animals. They often talk about re-locating them. For what purpose? For the benefit of the animals or the pleasure of humans? At one point, they talked about capturing an animal (can't remember which one--the episodes run together for me) to relocate it to some kind of park. Is this some park for humans to come and view the animals?

Anyway, with each episode I've watched, I find myself cheering for the animals to get away. Sadly, that rarely happens.

[–] steveicm 17 years ago

I'm a Cinemajunkie !

Yeah I agree.

The saddest episdoe was where they grabbed the baby Hippo from its mom.

The poor baby and the mom are screaming, as the rush it away in the truck

[–] npmz 17 years ago

so you are a peta lover!

[–] slayer60 16 years ago

PETA kills animals. Why would anyone be a PETA lover?

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Moss: Why are you giving me the secret signal to shut up?

[–] nickm2 12 years ago

Are you a PETA Puffer? BULLSPIT! I bet you could suck a golfball through a garden hose!
Sorry, I couldn't resist---hats off to R. Lee.

[–] vinidici 12 years ago

so you are a peta lover!

One need not be an animal rights activist (I'm not!)
to object to separating an infant wild animal from its parent. Taking the baby hippo away from its mother was just plain wrong, any which way you look at it. If they needed a young hippo for a zoo or "for relocating," they should have selected one that was old enough to no longer be dependent on its mother.

Okay folks, show's over, nothing to see here!

[–] cwente2 12 years ago

vinidici,

Right on!

[–] dannieboy20906 8 years ago

Just as the zoo will protect the baby hippo as it grows to adulthood, so will Mutual of Omaha's Whole Life Insurance protect your child. Now is the time to begin their protection.

Jim will defend the hippo, LOOK OUT, JIM!

Well, at least he has Mutual of Omaha's accidental death and dismemberment insurance.

The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank.

[–] headhunter46 11 years ago

Sometimes the animal was becoming a nuisance so to protect the animal from humans it was moved to a less populated area. Sometimes there was overcrowding so they tried to thin them out.

Capture might be for the purpose of taking to a zoo for preservation. By keeping some of them safe there is the possibility of getting the animals to make new baby animals which could be returned to the wild.

And by studying animals, humans can learn better ways to protect them in the wild. Learn what diseases they get, learn what plants they depend on so more of the right kind could be planted where they live.

Sometimes the capture is only temporary. They use a wild animal to breed with animals in the zoo so their genes don't get too similar. They now take blood samples and test DNA for match ups.

There ARE people who want to help our animal friends.

[–] Blueghost 11 years ago

I think I remember an inference where the animals had wondered away from their normal habitat and into farm land, or land that was near settled regions.