ANIMALS AT THE ZOO

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 182, 4 August 1930, Page 6

ANIMALS AT THE ZOO

BENEFITS OF CAPTIVITY

(To the Editor.)

I wonder whether those excellent „ , who bewail the fate of the creature in Pe ° ple tivity in the modern zoo fully realise J? P : the fate of these same creatures w2 M left in their native wilds. D o they r r the constant daily search for food th- "fifn to obtain which means death in' one S •? worst forms; do they realise the c≤ 2 effort to escape enemies ever on the Tf u for their destruction, the struggle against Nature red in tooth 258$J What do the travellers and natuSft us; men, and women, too, who have nem*™* j : - the regions where wild life tell us it is one great shambles wh'ero l;/ literally lives on death. Mutual murder, *& \ the slayer, as in turn slain, where th P »«i and the maimed die in the agonies of h,m and thirst. And then let them turn foeiS on the pampered darlings of the zoo S servants to wait upon them and every comf^' provided that heart of animal could S' and they will see that their pity, w £ f f ' does credit to their hearts, is aWi,! uncalled for. So far as the Auckland Z ' concerned, it is administered under the bene'fi cent rule of our city fathers, not as a moi ,ev making private enterprise, and the aiiWi'■ are well looked after, well catered for andnwrt not excite the sensibilities of the most hearted. OLIVER MASO2T