A Michael Broad Blog
This map shows where you can see cats in public zoos across the USA. All you have to do is click on the place markers to see details about the wild cat species at these zoos together with some details about the zoo. The yellow place markers pinpoint the best zoos for seeing wild …
This is a happy ending cat story although the happiness cannot wash away the unhappiness of being chained up in the back of a truck and used as a circus big cat for a staggering twenty years. Peru banned circus wild animals. The law had to be enforced vigorously because most circuses defied the …
You may remember the worldwide reporting of a cheetah attack on a ten-year-old boy at a captive cheetah breeding centre in Ladysmith, South Africa. Schoolchildren were on an educational outing organised by their school to the Kwa Cheetah breeding centre. One of those children was 10-year-old Aiden Davis. While there, a cheetah charged at …
This is a moral and ethical dilemma as much as a practical problem. Big Cat Rescue (BCR), a controversial wild cat sanctuary in Tampa, Florida run by Carole Baskin, say that they have to feed specially bred live rabbits to two captive bobcats who are destined to be returned to the wild because it …
Two shoddy roadside zoos – Natural Bridge Zoo, Natural Bridge, Virginia, and Tiger Safari in Tuttle, Oklahoma have been investigated by The HSUS. One of my pet hates is the American roadside zoo and I apologise to Americans for saying that. I don’t want to upset any Americans but I would hope that the …
Today, there is a splash of online news activity about the charming, female sand cat, Naiade, who has just died at El Paso Zoo at the old age of 17. This is an exceptional age for a sand cat in captivity because, as stated in the title, this wild cat species doesn’t do well …
In writing about how noise can stress captive wild cats we can gain an insight into how noise can affect domestic cats. Captive wild cats don’t do well in captivity. This is evidenced, in part, in their inability to breed, which leads to management problems and ultimately inbreeding. Some experts predict the gradual extinguishment …
Liz picked out a story of the birth, in November 2012 of two jaguar cubs in Milwaukee Zoo. This was a particularly good event because the father is a wild jaguar that was captured in Central America and placed in the Belize Zoo before being shipped to Milwaukee. It is a rare event and …
