Post by gurthbruins on Nov 15, 2013 13:31:14 GMT
10 Nov 2013: Sun, 7.10pm. A critical moment as I get clarity on this issue (Animal Rights). I’ve been ranting on i/net about the need to kill off 90% of the population, and give back land to the animals. But now I know what God wants me to do. I’ve just seen a nature program about the giant panda, the Indian rhino and the S. American tamarin.
In China there is now a centre where pandas are being bred successfully. The staff have achieved such a level of trust that they can take the baby from the mother and give her back its twin, which she can then feed while they feed the other. This way they can rear two babies instead of only one.
This centre rents out pandas to zoos at one million dollars per panda per year, and helps them to breed their own pandas. The female is fertile for only one 36-hour window per year. At Whipsnade, when the female reached this condition, they tried to mate her with a male which they were keeping on hand. He was mounting her but seemed a bit slow and ignorant (because of human spectators putting him off?), and she lost patience and chased him away. The staff then resorted to AI which worked perfectly: the mother eventually gave birth while being observed by the staff. She turned out to be a perfect mother, having to hold the baby to herself all the time for about 3 weeks to prevent it getting too cold.
We saw an Indian rhino at Whipsnade being watched through pregnancy, and eventually she managed to give birth without any help, and became an excellent mother with her growing child.
The tamarins were a different story: the mother attacked her babies, killing two of them; one only was saved: she needed surgery on her injured hand. She needed proper attention from surrogate parents; luckily a pair of these (mature tamarins) were on hand and took to their job very successfully.
These efforts by conservationists, and the success they have had, has shown me that, for me, there is still a band of people whom I can call ‘good guys’ and with whose fate I can relate as they perform the most important activity for human beings, their self-redemption by elevating the needs of animals above their own.
In China there is now a centre where pandas are being bred successfully. The staff have achieved such a level of trust that they can take the baby from the mother and give her back its twin, which she can then feed while they feed the other. This way they can rear two babies instead of only one.
This centre rents out pandas to zoos at one million dollars per panda per year, and helps them to breed their own pandas. The female is fertile for only one 36-hour window per year. At Whipsnade, when the female reached this condition, they tried to mate her with a male which they were keeping on hand. He was mounting her but seemed a bit slow and ignorant (because of human spectators putting him off?), and she lost patience and chased him away. The staff then resorted to AI which worked perfectly: the mother eventually gave birth while being observed by the staff. She turned out to be a perfect mother, having to hold the baby to herself all the time for about 3 weeks to prevent it getting too cold.
We saw an Indian rhino at Whipsnade being watched through pregnancy, and eventually she managed to give birth without any help, and became an excellent mother with her growing child.
The tamarins were a different story: the mother attacked her babies, killing two of them; one only was saved: she needed surgery on her injured hand. She needed proper attention from surrogate parents; luckily a pair of these (mature tamarins) were on hand and took to their job very successfully.
These efforts by conservationists, and the success they have had, has shown me that, for me, there is still a band of people whom I can call ‘good guys’ and with whose fate I can relate as they perform the most important activity for human beings, their self-redemption by elevating the needs of animals above their own.
