Captive Breeding Quotes

There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?

States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild.

We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.

Whether exotic wild animals have escaped or the owners have let them go, the problem is still there…. The damage has already been done.

We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger.

I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

I have a complicated relationship with the zoo; maybe everyone does. It's so wonderful and so sad.

It's not an easy thing to captive-breed a falcon. You need to take extreme care of its diet and exercise and keep it close to its natural environment. Whenever the birds take ill, I only use Ayurveda to cure them.

Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

We literally live right in the middle of the zoo, and it means that every day is a new experience and so much fun.

I dreamed of growing up and becoming a zookeeper.

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids.

I have spent my entire life living in a zoo, which is pretty crazy. Not many kids get to say that, and it took me until I was about three years old to realize that we didn't just come to the zoo every day, that we actually lived here.

We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.

Sea World's killer whale collection needs constant replenishing. The average life span of the animals in captivity is less than half the average for killer whales in the ocean.

I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat.

Circus lions are mean. They don't know anything about affection training.

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something.