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I Would Like To Foster Baby Tigers. Besides A Zoology Degree What Other Type Of Requirements

Have you been considered both ugly and beautiful at different times in your life? How has the way people treat you changed?

Take a gander at this gem.This was me in middle school. Thankfully, this photo makes me laugh now, I was just a little kid, but at the time I was mortified. I had such a poor sense of self, even back then.Kids are cruel. They kinda just blurt out what ever it is they want to say, and let me just tell you they don’t hold anything back! I was teased and isolated because of the way I looked. Girls just seemed to feel the need to pick on me and guys would call me fat. One teacher made the girls hang out with me, but I think the worst was when my teacher would sit with me at lunch out of pity . . . good grief!Just two years laterThe transition from 8th grade to high school brought many changes. I switched schools and decided I wasn't going to get picked on. Then I got attention in all the wrong ways.I will never call myself beautiful, but I will say many people who knew me in middle school couldn't believe it was me when I visited for a few parties. Suddenly they were all nice, well, the girls who had bullied me were still snobs, but who really cares.Even though I’ve changed physically, people haven’t. They are just as mean, just not to your face. A lot of people will use you, and finding someone to trust is an awfully hard thing.People don’t want to hear that attractive people have problems. It hurts me when I hear that being said because no matter what, we’re all just people who struggle with their own issues.For example, I have an eating disorder (among others things) and around the time the above picture was taken I became so ill that I could not return to school for my junior or senior year.I have an eating disorder because regardless of what I look like now, I still have wounds from things that happened before. I’m still that little girl who eats alone at lunch, and I’m still suffering from all those years of being terrified of my peers.

How do I apply or train to foster a tiger cub?

In the future I would like to foster tiger cubs until they are old enough to go to zoos or what-have-you. My best guess is zoos or a wildlife preservation. I would hopefully like to get on the list to do this, but I know that I would need training & permits. (And LOTS of space!) Anyone know where I should start?

What would happen if we relocated all of our lions that are in zoos back to Africa?

The cost of such an operation would be staggering. Imagine the cost of crating, sedating, then flying such large animals across entire continents. They would also need to stop over for feeding and veterinary checks to ensure their welfare.On arrival, they would need to be housed in protected reservations and go through a re-education programme, as they would not know how to hunt for survival. That would require trained personnel, and frequent checks to ensure the lions don't end up in canned hunt “reserves”, where they basically get shot in a cage by paying customers who enjoy killing animals with weapons.If many lions are reintroduced at once, an imbalance of predators to pray ratio would be created, so breeding programmes for prey animals would be necessary prior to the lion reintroduction. That might lead to an increase in both populations which might then conflict with human settlements nearby. Also, some older lions might never learn to hunt and be self sufficient, so it would become a lifelong effort to keep them alive and well.These measures would be necessary to avoid a repeat situation of uncaring abandonment such as happened with the chimps used for research for 30 years in New York, then left to die without food in Liberia. Life-Saving Chimps Abandoned On An Island To DieIt would become a necessity to hire guards to keep the lions protected from poachers and hunters alike (lions die either way, even if hunters pay some corrupt officer to shoot them, the lions end up dead).In our profit driven society, no one would be willing to fund such an expensive and complex reintroduction to the wild. That's why zoos kill their “surplus” animals. How many healthy animals do zoos put down?

Mother Orangutan rejecting baby?

when they have been raised in captivity, they have not learned from the group how to mother.

Have whales of one species been observed helping whales of another species (eg bowhead whales smashing ice to rescue narwhals)?

Yes! Humpback whales are famous for this.Humpbacks are a little unusual amongst the great whales: they're really very social. Humpback bulls hang out with their bros and make little gangs. Humpback cows stay with their mothers and sisters. They have friendships and allegiances that last lifetimes. By comparison, most other baleen whales spend huge amounts of time alone, and are social only during the breeding season. There are individual exceptions to this, of course, as with anything else.And humpbacks hate orca. Really hate 'em. Orca are no real threat to an adult humpback whale, and no threat at all to an entire pod, but they could take a calf, and a lot of adult bulls carry scars from failed orca attacks.If humpback bulls hear orca hunting - remember, sound travels well underwater - they will absolutely motor to wherever it is, and do everything they can to thwart the hunt. They'll physically attack them, use themselves as a barrier between the orca and the prey, and lift the prey animal out of the water on their backs or bellies to keep it safe. They aren't picky - they'll help other whales, dolphins, seals and have once been observed saving a sunfish from orca in this way. (Not sure how well being lifted out of the water would go for a fish, but eh, they tried!)And then, there's this: Life history told by a whale-louse: a possible interaction of a southern right whale Eubalaena australis calf with humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliaeThe short version is that a southern right whale calf showed up stranded, with parasites in a location and of species that very strongly suggest that it had been being suckled by a humpback cow for quite a while. Cetacean foster parenting?An edit to add: a bit of Googling tells me that this question was inspired by an Octonauts episode, which is, frankly, flippin’ adorable. The Octonauts and the Bowhead Whales (Series 2 - Episode 6) - video dailymotion

Do you believe that animals in captivity adapt to their environment or wish to return to the wild?

This is my foster daughter, Bayat. She is eating bark. Yummy. She’s an orphan, and she would not survive alone in the jungle at her age. OFI, Contact Us – Orangutan Foundation International is teaching her the ropes, so to speak, and she loves to play in her ‘jungle’ gym. She is being raised to be set free. Animals adapt to cages with no more gusto than you or I. Yes, they get fed and they get their shots. Yes, they don’t have to hunt for food. No, they don’t have predators in a zoo. Is that what life is? Would that be a quality of life for you? A confined space where people come to look at you? Adaptation is a word without joy, without freedom. People adapted to life in concentration camps, too.Bayat’s mother was killed & she was pulled from the body so she could be someone’s pet. Think about adapting to that.

Can you legally buy and own a penguin as a pet?

All species of penguin are protected so that you could only (legally) get a penguin from a zoo that had bred it.Penguins are social animals and live in large colonies.  I'm sure you don't want a depressed penguin, so you'd need to get him some friends.  You'll need approximately 20 penguins to get the party going.I hope you have a large supply of fresh fish available; that's about 20 fish per hour per penguin... hmmm, that's about 4,800 fish per 12 hours.  And what if some of them had a food fight or wanted a midnight snack?  Better line up a fish hatchery real quick, plus a good penguin vet.  And don't forget a nice little house for him and his friends, plus a large, deep, clean pool of salt water to play in.  (Good luck keeping that pool clean - they like to poop in it.)And no vacations for you - you would have to feed him and his friends every day, or have a penguin sitter; they're not cheap, either.  You just can't drop 20 penguins off at your local kennel.I think you would be better off with a stuffed penguin.

Does anyone know what the salary of an animal surrogate mother at the zoo?

There usually isn't a job just doing that. In most cases, the animal mother raises her young without people doing anything. Only if the mother dies or abandons her young will a human step in and raise it - obviously, this doesn't happen often enough for there to be a job just doing that. Either the keeper taking care of the animal, or one of the higher-up staff, will raise babies if need be. Zookeeping is a minimum-wage or at least low-paid job. The owner or curator of the zoo, who sometimes takes on the raising of young animals, earns a much higher salary, but you don't just step into those jobs - you work your way up from the bottom over many years.

Are zoos and aquariums unnatural and inhumane? Is it unethical to keep animals in zoos?

Our folklore and history is replete with examples of our compassionate relation with the animal kingdom. SOme of the animals are even worshipped in India. We all have read the famous story of Gautam Budha how he saved a bird hit by an arrow.Animals also have certain rights, which are natural rights. We can not and must not deprive the animals as a whole of their natural rights. We should not deprive them of their natural setting, or to cause them harm intentionally for malicious outcomes. This is why we have prevention of cruelty to animals Act, 1960.Further, we have a duty to the nature to preserve it, to keep it for our future generation. The nature is not our inherited property, rather it is our responsibility to keep it safe, diverse and lively.It may sound unethical to keep the animals in confinement, but it is a really potent tool to transmit information about the magnificent nature to our future generations. The sight of the animal arises the very thought of responsibility that we have towards the nature to preserve it and to not cause it any harm.Additionally, we should able to provide certain minimum requirements to the animals in a zoo like suficient greenery, right food, enough space et al. It still will be confinement, but it will be for the larger cause of saving the Earth.

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