2007-09-29 01:52:48 · 3 answers · asked by Dijana G 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Zoos really do not buy animal like that. Smaller things like birds and fish they do often, but your larger species do not work like that (talking "good" zoos and not those horrid road-side zoos).
Other than animals coming from the wild (recuse/rehab cases) zoos just get their animals from other zoos. For example if our zoo is in need of a male gorilla for some reason they would get one from another zoo that perhaps had too many males. The other zoo would still "own" whatever animal, it would just be housed at a differnt zoo.
2007-09-29 07:21:35 · answer #1 · answered by The Cheshire 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
and....
there are breeding programs. Say we don't have a pair of big cats but we have a female. You have a male. One of us loans the other and hopefully we get more cats... We share baby cats.
And some of these animals take care of the baby thing all by themselves. You can only get so many baby zebras before you have to start asking other zoos if they'd like a baby zebra or two... âº
2007-09-30 04:11:59 · answer #2 · answered by CoachT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you talking about animals from the wild ? if so there are many laws in place now to prevent this kind of sale besides the animal would have to go in quarantine for possibly six months.
However - animals from another zoo would not be so difficult to obtain.
2007-10-06 08:45:24 · answer #3 · answered by Shark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋