Please do not just like this post, or watch this video and share it because it is cute. please read my comment first before you decide: a pity so many of them are in captivity, imprisoned in human hands. The owlet at the beginning seemed to have been tied, and the turtle trying desperately to catch the fish against the glass wall is not cute - it is displaying very sad, typical captive, stereoptypic behaviour. wild animals do not belong in captivity or to be used as cute pets for OUR amusement. Please be more critical before you make such footage or comment on it as cute. It is not all cute, most of this footage i find very sad, indeed. I am a veterinarian who lectured in ethology - i am not making these statements without due consideration. apologies if i spoil your fun, but please, these kinds of videos stimulate the desire for uninformed people to buy more and more wild animals - the demand grows and more are caught from the wild and kept as pets - and they are often desperately unhappy in confinement, unable to display instinctive behaviour (such as natural hunting, in the sad case of the turtle in the aqaurium), depsite the short bouts of pleasure they may display when triggered by an occasional pleasant stimulus such as being scratched on the head. :((((((
Posted on: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 08:43:18 +0000
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