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Not So Wild Animals
Via Monkeywire, we learn that zoo administrators across the country have been doping exotic animals that show signs of distress with their environment. I don't want to get all PETA about this since I'm lying naked on a bearskin rug and eating chicken salad while typing, but this sounds a lot like experiments are being done on animals just to keep the show entertaining.
"[Antidepressants are] definitely a wonderful management tool, and that's how we look at them," said the Toledo Zoo's mammal curator, Randi Meyerson."To be able to just take the edge off puts us a little more at ease."
Perhaps the zookeepers have been consulting with nursing home administrators, daycare consultants, and school officials. Or vice versa.
In fact, most of the animals are acting appropriately, given their circumstances: they are depressed about confinement, confused by their surroundings, and afraid of animals outside of the herd. In other words, these animals need drugs because they are in zoos.
Look for the pharmaceutical companies to start placing ads in Cat Fancy. Maybe that can shake the industry from the doldrums.
Posted by Charles Star on 09/13/2005 | Permalink
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I was hoping for a picture of you lying naked on the rug, typing and eating chicken salad. Not because I want to see you naked, (well maybe partly) but because I'm having trouble figuring out how you can do all those at the same time. :)
Anyway, I love your magazine and your blogs. I was laughing at the last list so much that people were coming from other offices to see why I was rolling on the floor.
Posted by: David Barbour | Sep 22, 2005 11:00:56 AM
