{"id":753322,"date":"2018-05-22T07:32:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T11:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753322"},"modified":"2018-05-22T07:32:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T11:32:14","slug":"are-zookeepers-playing-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753322","title":{"rendered":"Are zookeepers playing God?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>In some cases, an animal in captivity has a genetic profile that's well-represented in the global zoo population, so a zookeeper will prevent that animal from mating.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BRIT McCANDLESS FARMER:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Gone are the days of taking animals out of the wild; most zoos rarely do that anymore. Instead, zoos today engineer animal reproduction in a decidedly unnatural &#8212; but very of-the-moment &#8212; way: using a computerized pairing program. Think of it as Match.com for animals. The point of such careful coupling &#8212; which can send one animal on a trip hundreds of miles away to mate with another &#8212; is to maintain genetic diversity. And in a small, closed population like a zoo, that variety is vital for the species&#8217; survival. Zookeepers effectively decide which animals get to mate and which animals they mate with. In some zoos, they also determine which animals get to live&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In some cases, an animal in captivity has a genetic profile that&#8217;s well-represented in the global zoo population, so a zookeeper will prevent that animal from mating. In the U.S., zookeepers often put these animals on birth control. 60 Minutes cameras filmed a gorilla, a monkey, an aardvark, and a rock hyrax all receiving some type of contraception to prevent them from passing on genes that are too common in captivity&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/are-zookeepers-playing-god\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/srrAwP1z6oQ?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRIT McCANDLESS FARMER: &#8216;Gone are the days of taking animals out of the wild; most zoos rarely do that anymore. Instead, zoos today engineer animal reproduction in a decidedly unnatural &#8212; but very of-the-moment &#8212; way: using a computerized pairing program. Think of it as Match.com for animals. The point of such careful coupling &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,24],"tags":[27,28,30,37],"class_list":["post-753322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-science","tag-cruelty","tag-entertainment","tag-exploitation","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753324,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753322\/revisions\/753324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}