WORLD animal welfare chiefs have sent out an SOS....to Glasgow Zoo.
The World Society for the Welfare of Animals has called on zoo bosses
to provide expertise for treatment of bears in European zoos which were
behind the Iron Curtain.
For with state cash having run dry, many former Eastern Bloc zoos have
no cash to properly take care of animals.
And Glasgow Zoo has one of the best zoo enclosures in the world.
Zoo chief Richard O'Grady said:'Some of the conditions in these zoos
are appalling for bears.
''Many are in small cages. But apart from that there are too many
bears in captivity.
Cash
''The main problem for these zoos is cash, it isn't a case of them
being treated cruelly on purpose.''
Glasgow Zoo opened its new bear enclosure in the late 1980s.
Along with revolutionary design techniques to provide a varied
enmvironment for the four bears - all females - new methods of feeding
have been introduced which keep the bears active.''
Said Richard:'The main idea is to keep the bears interested, active
and using their brains.
''Even spreading raisins in the enclosure which they then have to
find, and increasing the amount of feeding times, plays a big part in
this.
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