#zoos are not prisons

[ihazyourkitty]

Hogle Zoo is an AZA accredited facility, opening up a new area 3 acre area called "Wild Utah" to feature various native Utah species. 3 of those animals are going to be orphaned cougar cubs that were rescued and unable to survive in the wild on their own.

Note that 2 of these cubs have shortened ears and tails because of frostbite. They were rescued in Nebraska where the weather conditions were severe, and again, these cubs were unequipped to handle it on their own.

This would be a very positive story about giving orphaned cubs a second chance at a good place where they will receive all the care that they need... or so you would think.

Instead, multiple people on the comments were asserting that they were just going to prisons, one even going so far as to say that it would've been better to just let them die.

Wonderful. Nothing says "I love animals" than explicitly saying that they're better off dead than at an accredited zoo. Again, you will note that 2 of the 3 were suffering things like frostbite when they were rescued. There is nothing humane about letting animals that are within your power to help die like that.

I cannot, and will never, understand the "logic" behind this kind of mindset. Yes, baby orphaned animals die in nature all the time. No, we cannot save them all. But for those we can help... why not help them? And why is a life well cared for at an accredited zoo somehow worse for them than suffering a slow and painful death from starvation and exposure?

These animals do not have the same concepts of freedom vs. prison like we do. All they knew was that their mother is gone, and they were cold and starving.

Yes, bad or less than ideal zoos exist. Hogle Zoo is not one of them. Zoos and aquariums are not universally prisons, and if you think that, then let me just ask... what kind of prisons have you been to!? Seriously, all of the animals I've had the privilege to work with eat better than I do, and are treated vastly better than human prisoners are. How privileged must you be to think that all zoos and prisons are equivalent to one another!

Here's the reality: the zoological industry is a complex, nuanced thing that is ever improving and expanding. We're not stuck in the 1970s like you are. Stop judging animal welfare based on vibes, and stop drinking the PETA, HSUS et al. kool aid, because they're lying to you.

[ricky-is-too-silly]

I love these sm

[jayfrost-designs]

Up next for Ivypool's Heart designs, it's the second half of our wildcat pair, the lovely Stalk Purr! I loved these two characters, especially Stalk Purr, I loved the conversation she had with Ivypool about Bristlefrost.

Stalk Purr is not given a physical description beyond his pattern, but her species does not have nearly as much variation in build as domestic cats, so I stuck close to what a Scottish Wildcat should look like. She's a bit taller and leggier than her mate, but that's about it. I'm a little worried I made them look too different and that Stalk Purr doesn't look enough like a wildcat, but hopefully not?

For her pattern, Stalk Purr is described as a brown tabby wildcat. Again, didn't stray too far from what a Scottish Wildcat generally looks like - brown tabby, darker stripes on the points and chest, less pale belly fur, pale green eyes, etc. Again, ended up more different from Tumble Leap than I initially planned, but they both look like photos of wildcats I studied while drawing these, so hopefully they're both within the bounds of what's possible for their species?

Overall, despite my concerns, I am still fairly happy with how this turned out.

[359thautisticmetallegion]

I’ve realized that how evil I am in a game is often the reverse of how evil you’re expected to be.

I tend to be a relatively nice guy in Crusader Kings III and RimWorld, but in Cities: Skylines, Planet Zoo, Prison Architect, and literally any theme park game I’m a total maniac.

I’ll literally put coolers in the elephants’ habitat in Planet Zoo just to make them uncomfortable, but God forbid I even care if my wife cheats on me in CK3.

[less-ismore]

Joanna Piotrowska, from Stable Vices, 2021.

[applestereo]

it’s been a minute but has anyone else pondered what ever became of Mojo’s monkey army after the movie? Did they go to prison? Did they get brought back to normal and put back in Townsville zoo? Did they go to another special facility made to take in creatures who have been unconsensually altered/mutated or are they out and about living their normal lives? Are they unofficially the rowdyruff boys’ many simian uncles? But more importantly: did Mopey Popo have succes selling his original recipe for banana jerky? 🤔

[sofakinghtt]

Guys...I did not know that Dog Crate furniture was a genre of home furnishings that existed until about 15 mins ago! I just decided to google it for ideas about how to make my dog kennels less of an eyesore/focal point in our living room...I did not expect to be bombarded with all of these dog prisons?...canine zoos?...wolf-descendant display cases?...

But for real though - some of these actually would look nice in my apartment...

[knight-in-sour-armor]

[permian-tropos]

jesus fucking christ

[a-kinda-nerdy-girl]

To the person/people who killed a vulture and stole two tamarin monkeys, I hope you have the day you deserve

[alyss-claire]

[disgustedorite]

prisons but more like an accredited zoo with ethical habitation and enrichment

[jayfrost-designs]

Up first for the Ivypool's Heart characters, it's Tumble Leap the Wildcat! I really loved this book, and especially the wildcats, so I just had to draw these two. Maybe I'll draw more later, but for now, it'll just be Tumble Leap and Stalk Purr, and two more important characters from that book.

Tumble Leap is not given a physical description beyond his pattern, but his species does not have nearly as much variation in build as domestic cats, so I stuck close to what a Scottish Wildcat should look like. He's a bit shorter and stockier than his mate, but that's about it. I had to play around with the lineart a lot to get him looking the way I wanted, but I'm pretty happy with the end result.

For his pattern, Tumble Leap is described as a brown tabby wildcat. Again, didn't stray too far from what a Scottish Wildcat generally looks like - brown tabby, darker stripes on the points and chest, less pale belly fur, pale green eyes, etc.

Overall, I'm really really happy with how he turned out.

[vitorhugoguariento]

Switch: Confira 10 Games de Gerenciamento ao Estilo Tycoon

Switch: Confira 10 Games de Gerenciamento ao Estilo Tycoon

GERENCIE MUITO MAIS NO SWITCH ALÉM DO MUNDO DOS DINOSSAUROS: O PC já foi visto como o monarca absoluto dos jogos de gerenciamento. Ou games estilo Tycoon para ser exato. Não por menos, pérolas como Zoo Tycoon e Roller Coaster Tycoon fizeram a adolescência e a infância de uma galera junto do Windows XP. Embora essa premissa seja válida, o reinado não é solitário. Existem ducados e principados,…

[forgottenaustralia]

Lindsay 'Rocky' Herbert Vagne (aka Vane), originally from Nowra, NSW, developed a keen interest in snakes and tattooing very early on. Some early records have him performing a snake show at Lismore Showground, with a newspaper reporting that he "crashed his sulky," killing some of his snakes as he travelled there (6 May 1914). With articles about him at the Lismore show, dated around November of the same year.

The next dated source of Rocky has him trying to take snakes onto a train in Marborough, Victoria.

Rocky arrived in Perth in mid-1920's and began travelling around to carnivals like White City/ Uglieland showing snakes that he had captured, which included Tiger Snakes collected possibly from Garden Island.

Around 1925 Rocky was apparently a member of 'Gus Leighton's Snake Academy', with an article written in the paper, featuring 'Professor Rocky', Gus, a man named Milo and a woman named 'Madame Lutricia'.

In 1927, Rocky is documented performing with his wife, Annie Vagne nee Whitby, under her stage-name 'Cleopatra' at the Digger's Fair.

In 1928, one of Rocky’s snakes bit his wife Annie on the thumb while performing, and she unfortunately died a short time later.

Rocky must have had a daughter with Annie (or prior) as a photo of him and an aged daughter appear in the paper, shortly after the death of 'Cleopatra'.The daughter goes unnamed.

Later, an inquest into the death of Mrs. Vagne gets underway, with Rocky insisting on the hospital being responsible for 'neglect' by removing a ligature he had placed on her thumb, which was bitter by a Tiger Snake.

After her death, Rocky continued shows at Uglieland (White City), invoking some scrutiny in the papers.

In 1929 Rocky was charged with abducting a 16 year old girl, and arrested at Boulder, before being remanded at Kalgoorlie.The charges were later withdrawn when it was found the girl accompanied him alongside her mother.

Later that year (1929), Rocky employed Harry Melrose (48) as his show assistant, who was also bitten and then died.

At some point Rocky married his second Wife, Miriam Rita Tchan in 1929, who later took him to court to divorce him in 1936, citing, that he was a drunkard who kept snakes under the bed and deserted her, apparently having done so in 1932 stating he was "tired of being tied up".

In April 1934, Rocky was convicted of being ‘in a dwelling with intent’ and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment. While Rocky was still imprisoned, Mrs. Vagne was granted her divorce, as well as granted custody of 'her child'. (Whether this was a child she and Rocky had or a child from Rocky's previous marriage in unknown, though one article states there was one child between their union).

Within the court proceeding Rocky brought his 8 year old daughter in as 'evidence', stating that she had 'taken the bite of every snake in the well at one point or another and was still in perfect health.' With the reporter writing: 'Never before, perhaps, was seen a child bearing so many scars. Her little knees were red and pimply. Her face was a mass of pimples and scars. Below the short sleeves of her little one-piece frock, her frail little arms showed many marks left by the reptile fangs'.

The case ended with him being given 24 hours to get out of the state.

It has been theorised that Rocky dumped his snakes onto Carnac Island, explaining the booming population of approximately 400 Tiger Snakes that currently inhabit the island. Whether truth of folktale is still debated.

In 1937, after having left Western Australia, for South Australia after being forced to leave the state, Rocky was once more performing with snakes, where after being bitten by one and collapsing 100 snakes escaped, being reported in the newspaper.

In 1941, Rocky married his third wife, Joyce Alice Mary Trevorrow, who learned to be a snake charmer from Rocky.

In 1943 newspapers reported on a car Rocky was driving in Victoria, where he was transporting snake for Melbourne Zoo along with another snake catcher named 'Leona', with the car catching fire and 100 snakes dying.

In 1944, Rocky owned a tattoo shop on Flinders Street in Melbourne. It’s likely Rocky was tattooing while in Perth, given the first evidence of his career as a tattoo artist dates to c.1915 in NSW. He had a tattoo parlour located at 84 James Street in Northbridge from around 1933.

While working at his tattoo shop, a man attempted to steal a Tiger Snake from Rocky, this man (George Tchan) was bitten and taken to Royal Melbourne Hosptial.This name also matches the name of Rocky's second Wife father. So there is probably some deeper story there.

In 1946, while in Tasmania, Rocky was bitten once too many times, succumbing to his snake bite and dying, with an obituary in the paper mentioning his wife Joyce, and a daughter Sylvia.

His widow, Joyce, continued on performing snake shows.

In 2024, during conservation works in the Main Cell Block of Freemantle Prison, archaeologists retrieved artefacts hidden underneath the floor, which included fragments of a tattoo art dated to c.1934 and attributed to ‘Rocky Vane’.

The fragmented designs found under the floor would have originally been one larger piece drawn and painted by Rocky, referred in the tattoo industry as ‘flash’, that he could use to advertise his tattoo works to other prisoners.

The fragments of Rocky’s designs are now being carefully conserved and adopted into Fremantle Prisons museum collection.

[angstandhappiness]

LMAO ACCURATE

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