You realize that animals don't "enjoy" living out in the wild, right? It's a constant, 24/7 struggle to survive and eat. Captive animals have unlimited food, almost instant medical care, and complete protection from predators. Believe me, animals are ******* ecstatic about captivity.
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keggut**User deleted account** has deleted their comment [-]
I don't enjoy living in a polluted, crowded civilization surrounded by idiots, i don't enjoy it here. But i'd rather live where i do than anywhere else because it's what's natural to me.
Take elephants for example, in the wild they have to walk for weeks with little water and no food during the drout and some of them don't make it, but in captivity they get fresh food water and shelter every day, you'd think they'd enjoy it? Nope, because they don't have the freedom to migrate like their instinct is telling them to do, so they go stir crazy. Just like a slow loris would without being able to climb
Yes, I'm not disagreeing that there are inhumane practices afoot. My point was that any animal would rather live in a reasonable captive environment. Reasonable does not include what is done to the lorises. Any animal can be domesticated in a reasonable and safe way; I doubt Lorises need to have their ******* teeth pulled, that's just sick.
Lorises are also nocturnal creatures. Bright lights hurt their eyes. Pretty much every single video/gif ever showing how cute they are in brightly lit areas where the loris's eyes can be hurt.
Although I do agree with you for the most part.
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keggut**User deleted account** has deleted their comment [-]
It's so ******* cute, but it's such a terrible idea to own one. The key problem being that slow lorises are nocturnal. One reason why their eyes are so ******* huge. So the indoor lights hurt their eyes. Feel free to read more about how much of a bad idea it is to even buy a slow loris here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_loris#Wildlife_trade
Sadly I feel if these animals are not owned as pets they will not exist much longer. Greed for old growth wood and human expansion will be their demise in the wild.
I ******* watched this show so much as a kid. I would literaly watch nothing but that. 90's had such great shows for kids. Now we've just got crap. Guess that's why PBS constantly plays the old stuff.
The animal shown is a loris, and in many countries it's illegal to have due to the fact it's poisonous and endangered. Many "domestic" loris's are obtained through the illegal animal trade, and are given inhumane procedures to make them "safe" for human interaction. I'm not saying this loris is an illegally obtained one, but I would like to spread the awareness of the illegal animal trade, where many different types of animals are abused, treated inhumanely, and killed.