• vateso5074@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    C’mon Ottawa, force them to rehabilitate and release them, even if it kills the park.

    A lot of animals cannot be rehabilitated and released. If they were born and raised in captivity, they have effectively no chance of survival on their own. I don’t know what the situation is for these animals, but I’ve been to plenty of zoos and aquariums in the past that have rehabilitation programs and even they have a few “lifers” who will never leave.

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      8 days ago

      AFAIK there are rarely whales born in captivity and nearly all were stolen from their pods and thrown into a swimming pool.

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      7 days ago

      Only animal I know that even has a chance in the would is a domestic house cat. Some can’t learn to hunt, some can, you never know. And mostly how they survive is finding humans to care for them, so maybe that doesn’t really count.