Why do we have a clear banner against animal performance?

Animal performance is not good.

Recently, several news of animal attacks "breeders" have appeared, and it is not surprising that these news occurred in the process of animal performance.

In mid -July, there were news that two animals caused injuries to domesticated people during the performance, namely dolphins and bear, please slide to view | Weibo:@cover news

The performance agency may describe the accident as an accident, and some people will be confused. The animals are obviously trained. Why do they accidentally lose their hands during the performance? Is it intentionally attacked the breeder? But in fact, animals hurt people during their performances. This incident is not fresh or unexpected.

It is the performance that the performance violates the nature of animals, and the accumulation of layers can lead to this tragedy.

Behind the performance is cruel training

Most of the animal performances we see are just animals to complete certain actions according to human requirements. But these actions are usually violated with animal nature. The lion does not want to drill the fire, monkeys do not want to ride a bicycle. Even the black bear stands and the killer whale opens his mouth to begging these actions, nor is they do it in a natural state.

In order to allow animal tables to perform these unnatural movements, the orcs will conduct quite cruel "training". The most common is to punish hunger as a punishment -in this way, in order to get food rewards, animals have to make orcs. Required action. More often, the orcs will also use a variety of methods such as whipping, stabbing, these practices will not only bring pain and trauma to animals, but also allow animals to live in fear.

Elephant trainer shot the small elephant in the circus: How to tame a small elephant? Through hooks and ropes ｜ SAM HADDOCK

These animal performance agencies often do not take care of animal welfare by animals as a tool for profit. Therefore, animals in these places are usually raised in a relatively narrow performance background and cannot obtain appropriate living venues. When animals are sick or injured by performance, it is usually impossible to be properly treated. It can be said that the five major benefits of animals are not satisfied.

Five freedom of animal welfare:

1) Freedom from lack of nutrition, hunger and thirst: clean drinks and foods needed for health and vitality, can be supplied.

2) Freedom from physiological and psychological discomfort: Provide an appropriate asylum environment, and a comfortable rest place, temperature and climate.

3) Freedom from diseases and injuries: Provide prevention, rapid diagnosis and disease treatment.

4) Freedom from fear and urgency: Ensuring various environments and treatment will not cause mental pain.

5) Freedom of natural expression behavior: provide sufficient space, appropriate facilities, and similar animal partners.

For a long time, in the state of constantly accumulating pressure, it is easy to cause various behaviors. Therefore, when they do "suddenly" the behavior of hurting people, it is not suddenly. Some animals are not properly handled because of injuries, so they cannot complete some "specified actions", which will also cause accidental injuries to themselves or performers.

These "accidents" are the inevitable consequences caused by the accumulation of various negative effects of animal performances. It is really "an accident will definitely occur."

Tilikum, the famous killer whale in Orando Ocean World, has attacked people three times because of the long -term lapsea spiritual problems; its dorsal fins are drooping, which is also a pathogen that is often appearing in killer whales ｜ David R. Tribble / Wikipedia

The popular science territory of the "entertainment" is quietly occupied by "entertainment"

However, when I talked to the people around me why someone was willing to watch animal performances, I got a very simple answer: "I also know that the animal is miserable, but I just see it." In other words, we are talking about resisting animals In the science of performance, people who watch animals are interesting and fun.

There are many very straightforward animals that make people feel the "visual impact" design, or to break the public's psychological expectations or conventional impressions. When these things are combined, it will produce a strong entertainment -and this kind of entertainment has no threshold.

But the animals that are locked in a small space and must be moved to eat. Are they happy? ｜ pixabay

And the animals in the zoo that do not need to perform to make tourists feel happiness -this not only requires animals to show rich and natural behaviors, but also require tourists to understand, but it is a threshold.

This threshold is not only for viewers, but also a high requirement for zoo management itself. First of all, it is not enough to make animals show adequate behaviors, but it is not enough to provide suitable conditions such as food, residence and other suitable conditions. It also needs a lot of thoughts to provide enough abundance for animals. Secondly, when animals show sufficient behaviors, if they do not cooperate with professional explanations, it is difficult for the audience to understand what the animals are doing and what kind of state.

Take the matter of tiger urination. If the audience has certain zoology knowledge, it can be judged whether it is to meet the needs of physiological excretion, or whether it is in the movement, location, time, frequency, etc. of tiger urine. Behavior; but in the eyes of tourists who do not have zoology knowledge, it is urinating next to the stone, urinating on the grass, urinating under the tree, a large bubble of urine or a small bubble ... so it is difficult for general tourists to be difficult for general tourists Get "interesting" and "fun" from the benign and natural behavior of animals. The tiger in the wild is marking through urine ｜ YouTube: @smithsonian Channel

However, entertaining animal performances can not let us truly understand a kind of animal -we will tell our children that the bear will ride a bicycle in the forest to catch up with the prey? Still telling him that the lion will bravely drill the fire in the fire when he encounters the forest fire?

To make matters worse, once the animal performances are allowed, and those natural behavior display on the audience and the zoo, it may be more difficult to survive in the market.

Therefore, we must resolutely resist animal performances.

How to distinguish between animal performance and behavior display

When more and more people start to resist animal performances, these institutions have also begun to become sperm (jiǎo) Ming (huá). In the name of "Animal Behavior", they do things about animal performances, as if changing their names to make the nature of these performances acceptable. But in fact -there is a essential difference between animal performance and animal behavior display.

Is the tiger whale stranded to the shore to pay tribute to the audience? No, in the wild, killer whales will be stranded in order to capture the prey and shore of the shores ｜ Pixabay

In the simplest words, animal behavior display is through the efforts of nurses and venue designers, so that the animal in the zoo shows some or certain behaviors autonomously. The core is to let the animals do it. What can be done. Moreover, the most important thing is that in the process of making these behaviors, artificial intervention must be reduced.

For example, it is also necessary to let the black bear stand for standing. We can hang an object with food or other animals in the heights of the black bear cage, which aroused its interest in foraging or exploring. Exploration. In this whole process, the black bear is always interacting with the "environment" or "richness" in the cage house, and no one is involved -this is a good way of behavior display.

The bone structure of the black bear is not suitable for standing or walking in both feet. The posture in the picture above is actually just sitting straight. In the wild, only in order to obtain high food, fight, mark on the tree, etc., the black bear will briefly support the body with the hind limb ｜ JoyDeep / Wikimedia Commons

On the contrary, if you use the method of throwing food and calling, constantly through human movements and behaviors, "guide" or even "forced" animals to make certain actions -this so -called "behavior display" is very typical Hanging sheep head selling dog meat is still animal performance.

Moreover, compared to traditional animal performances, animal performances in the name of "behavior display" should be resisted. This will bring misleading to the public and make people mistakenly think that the acting behavior of animals forced to make is their "show of real intentions."

The standing begging of Black Bear is not a natural phenomenon, but it is learned by them in the environment of human feeding; if this artificial behavior is called "behavior display", then everyone's understanding of the black bear will be being understood. Misleading ｜ www.tokyo.taipei

Don't ignore the impact of the network

Speaking of which, I have to mention that today, when social media and streaming media are becoming increasingly developed, "cyber animal performance" is also worthy of attention. Many people show the situation of raising wildlife through photos or videos, such as Cat Ewl restaurants, otters, pandas in the hotel, and so on.

The creators and communicators of these videos are usually to attract the audience to solve the real behaviors or intentions of animals, and with a lot of anthropomorphic or cute commentary. For example, the threat of the panda was described as "hug", and the owl's stare was described as "the big eyes flashed and sold." The large number of these videos and articles make the boundaries between wild animals and home pets blur, and it is also indirectly encouraged people to buy and raise wildlife, which will only make their survival more difficult.

In Tokyo, Owl Cafe in Tokyo, Owls should be severely stressed in this environment, and close contact will make people mistakenly think that they can play wild animals at will | Toukou Sousui 鶫箜 / Flickr

Fortunately, there are still many cute people who insist on how to show the animal behavior correctly to the public science -by redesigning the zoo cage and the venue, the living conditions of animals are closer to their natural habitats; Rongdao props, enriching the feeding and exploration of animals. At the same time, in conjunction with more professional explanations, simpler and easy -to -understand and scientific popular science exhibition boards and interactive devices, it not only allows tourists to understand animal behavior, but also increases the fun of behavior display, and even allows people to passively accept knowledge passively Infiltration and transforming into active participation and exploring animal behavior.

Many excellent zoos have also begun to shoot short videos, showing animals outside the vision of tourists to the public. This can break through the limitation of time and space, making it easier for everyone to find unexpected joy from the normal behavior of animals. With the power of the Internet, these correct animal behavior display can also be passed to more people. Fun and correct popular science make the zoo more interesting! Slide View:

The panda exhibition board designed by the wolf teacher (the appearance of Teacher Tianyi);

What hairstyle can the net red lion in Guangzhou Zoo? Children can participate in design ｜ Design: Wing and Wolf; Figure: Panda

In the end, let's make a summary.

In fact, many people like to watch animal performances. It may be the idea of ​​"being able to see cute animals to do cute things and make their mood happy". However, those who run animal performances and people who shoot the uploader of wildlife videos are exactly this mentality of everyone to hurt those animals we love, and even step by step to force their wild relatives on the road. Essence

So, if you, your friends, or your children in your family really like animals, then please resist the animal performance with us!

Don't let animal performances hurt our love for animals!

Author: Wing Wolf Elang

Edit: Mai Mai

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