No, this is not a joke. We live 2¼ miles from Saint-Aignan's major tourist attraction, which is the ZooParc de Beauval. This is a two-minute slideshow made up of photos I've taken there over the years. These too are our neighbors...
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P.S. I have to take back what I told chrissoup about quicksand in a comment on yesterday's post. This morning I found a photo I vaguely remembered having taken at the Mont Saint-Michel a few years back. In it, on the left, I see a young woman who appears to be up to her thighs in quicksand on the mud flats that surround the Mont. People seem to be trying to pull her out. I took the photo from far up on the side of the Mont.
I didn't know that was even possible at the Mont...and she's in that lovely redingote. I hope that ended well.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what was going on or how it happened. I assume the girl was playing around and then ended up needing help to get out of the quicksand. The tide wasn't really coming in at that hour.
DeleteHow frightening for her. I hope it was a happy ending.
ReplyDeleteThese animals are innocent, why putting them in jail? Even if it is a golden prison.
ReplyDeleteLike hunting, I am against zoos!
Now, Blogger has a new trick. A while back, for no obvious reason, I couldn’t paste my comments, now it doubles or triples them. Les joyeusetés de l’électronique!
DeleteAs for keeping animals in prison, well, we can confine and protect them or leave them out in the little wild land that remains and wait for them to go extinct. Look what's happening to rhinoceros and elephant populations. Gorillas. And on and on.
DeleteLots of nice looking chimps and primates in these photos. But I tend to agree with your sentiment chm. Ken I think rhino farms have started where they harvest the horn to make the animals undesirable to the poachers.
DeleteI guess I'm pretty pessimistic when it comes to the prospects for survival of large animals in this world we humans have created. Either a lot more people will die early deaths, or a lot of other animals will. Since we humans are the animals that "develop" and pollute the planet, the only hope for other large animals is, probably, our demise. Maybe displaying these amazing animals in zoos will help make humans understand that we need to figure out how to stop the carnage.
DeleteFrom my readings, zoos have been changed in modern times to recreate the landscape of the natural habitation of the animals with only barriers for dangerous animals and water and land barriers for others. As you stated, Ken, many animals and birds have had their near-extinction populations increased due to the protection and medical services offered by the new zoos. Having these rare breeds available to the general public also increase the interest in encouraging the reasons to provide funding for these species for the advantages they offer society. Even new plant species are 'discovered' every year that offer medicinal benefits to humans that were unknown until after the discovery and scientific trials. Previously, CHM, zoos were horrid cages and seemed so disrespectful for the various species.
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