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Strange, I thought you had turtles and tortoises as well. My bad - must be thinking of someone else.
As for the idea that we can't learn from an animal that is not in it's natural environment - that is a hard one for me to understand. Biologists have been doing that for quite some time. Most of our care sheets come from experienced tort owners, not some naturalist who never owned one, but just watched them in the wild.
Most zoos we go to offer many educational programs. Sure, if you just blow through the zoo looking at all the neat animals, but don't slow down to read about them, and learn about where they are from, what they eat, issues their kind is experiencing in their native lands, and so on, then you really won't learn much.
As for the idea that we can't learn from an animal that is not in it's natural environment - that is a hard one for me to understand. Biologists have been doing that for quite some time. Most of our care sheets come from experienced tort owners, not some naturalist who never owned one, but just watched them in the wild.
Most zoos we go to offer many educational programs. Sure, if you just blow through the zoo looking at all the neat animals, but don't slow down to read about them, and learn about where they are from, what they eat, issues their kind is experiencing in their native lands, and so on, then you really won't learn much.