#besides. this isn't the first hippo p'benz (the zookeeper) has raised

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I would also like to add a few extra things from another thread to the post! Khao Kheow Open Zoo (the zoo Moo Deng lives in) is a major player in our country's wildlife conservation effort and they've had reintroduced a LOT of animals back into the wild (which a LOT of people are weirdly skeptical of? Like they couldn't believe we would, y'know, care about animals), some of which includes (but is not limited to):

20 rusa deers, 14 muntjacs, 230 silver pheasants, 140 red jungle fowls, and 210 Siamese fireback pheasants in 2019 [Source]

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Asian woolly-necked storks in 2022, which were later able to lay their eggs in their natural habitat for the first time in 40 years [Thai source Thai source 2, English source]

As well as numerous hornbills!

Some people have also had (valid) concerns that Moo Deng's enclosure is fairly small, but that's because she's in a nursing suite! That way zookeepers are able to monitor her while she grows. Her siblings were also raised there when they were born, and later when they are a bit older, they were moved to bigger pens. Other zoos do this too, so why is it a crime for us to do it?

It seems to be a recurring thing where an animal from a non-US/European place gets a bit too popular causes people to start being racist towards the country housing the animals. Foreigners accuse us of abusing the animals while doing literally no research on the zoo's background, either because the information is written in another language, or simply because they don't care

I would like to end this post with this quote from the OP of the thread I linked earlier

found ANOTHER way more in-dept thread about Khao Kheow zoo to share. once again I'm obligated to put it here

my other post about this

full screenshot here I also posted this reddit thread on my other post linked above

TL;DR: Please don't trust random (may I add racist?) foreigners on the internet over locals who actually knows what they're talking about. thank you 🙇‍♂️