Ed
Diebold, director of animal collections at Riverbanks Zoo, explains (to CNN)
the need for studbooks: "In captivity, usually these populations are
considerably smaller than wild populations, which is why you can't afford to
allow animals to inbreed or breed along closely related lines." Many zoo
keepers now search out potential mates for endangered species kept in
captivity with a simple Internet search. CNN reports that the online databases
contain information about age, sex, weight, and lineage, but tend to ignore
things like turn-ons and turn-offs. Now, however, the online studbooks are
starting to record personality details about the animals in hopes of better
matching mates.....
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“I wouldn’t mate with you
if you were the last panda on earth.”
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“Well I am so come
on. Everyone is watching. I’m going to look like a real asshole
if you send me back to China in a box.” ....
If that’s even where
pandas are living these days. Zoos all over the world are now trying to match
up endangered species. It’s
just like match.com. If we don’t
find a mate for you in six months we’ll give you another six months free. If that doesn’t work it looks like
you’ll be extinct. What I get from this article is that it might be time to
start mating outside of your species.
If two animals like each other it shouldn’t matter what their kid is
going to look like. And this is
all being done in zoos. It’s not
like they can’t keep an eye on the creation. And are they kidding about turn-ons and
turn-offs? These are animals. They like food and sex and not getting
shot. Also, long walks in search
of food. And what if they do find a mate for an endangered specie? Who travels to who? I know for sure the female panda is not
going to travel to the male.
“I’m not going anywhere. He knows where I am if he wants to
mate. I don’t really care
anymore. And if we’re the only two
left, maybe it’s time to just let us go and you can focus on the Koala.”
I kind of want to see this website
though. With all the pictures of
the animals available for stud services.
And do you show them to the female panda?
‘Do any of these guys look cool?”
‘This one is kind of cute. But it looks like he has poop all over
his ass. Could you clean him up?
And am I going to have to live with him. Or can I just have his sperm?”
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