#prozoo

They're edible, healthy veggies, and fun enrichment!

Would you rather have your chicken nuggies on a plain old plate or have to fish them out of a bag and box?

Even for animals that don't enjoy eating pumpkin, they have to play and interact with it to get the treats inside. October is awesome because now is when the pumpkins are ripe and also its great for the visitors enjoyment. Never underestimate festivities and guest enjoyment! A lot of education centers focus on family activities since not all adults are crazy zoo lovers like me they mostly go with families so having the animals also be as enthusiastic about Halloween is a great way to engage the kids who are passionate about halloween and trickortreating.

It's also just adorable AF!

Check out some of these awesome Zoo Halloween times!!!

I’m sorry you feel that way, I hope you at least look back and look to see why I do support Seaworld. (I do appreciate that you are pro-zoo though!)

Seaworld is absolutely a place of research, education, public outreach, and leaders in conservation.

Right now, Seaworld is participating in research in developing ways of photographing orcas and creating a baseline of what healthy, well-fed orcas look like when photographed from above to compare with wild orcas. They are also participating in research in how nutrients and possibly toxins can be passed from mother to offspring, to see how pollution could affect newborn orcas in the wild.

They have a whole department dedicated to the education of guests at the parks. As well as using shows as an education experience.

Now, I’m not 100% sure, but I believe Seaworld does do outreach programs. Don’t quote me on it, I could be wrong. I do know they have animals they bring out to do outreach in the parks like owls and a beaver (I met the beaver it was incredible)

They are leaders in conservation, they are leaders in animal rescue. They are the standard that I know other zoos and aquariums try to reach when dealing with their own animals and facilities. They are participates in SSPs (species survival plans), breeding programs that ensure healthy genetic diversity in zoos and aquariums so that if animals do go extinct in the wild they’ll survive in facilities.

Seaworld does not use their animals strictly for entertainment. The animals are no means FORCED to participate in shows as many people believe. If an animal doesn’t want to participate, they’ll switch out animals, they try again later with that animal or they’re fed out, no animal is starved to do what they do. Shows are a way to keep animals exercised and entertained themselves. Most behaviors seen in a show are husbandry behaviors, behaviors that help animals health whether it be lining up for a trainer to look over and touch to see if something is wrong or to make sure an animal is exercising. Any “show” behaviors that seem just “tricks”, are probably to keep animals from being bored by learning new things.

I am. I feel like the ‘I stand with SeaWorld’ tag kind off spells it out. I’ve seen the good work zoos and aquariums do and most model practices after SeaWorld because they’re one of the leader in animal husbandry and training field. I’ve also witnessed SeaWorlds practices first hand and been to lectures on thier research and training that are helping make things better for both wild animals and animals in their care. No one is perfect but they are working and working to make it damn near perfect.