9. February 20184. February 2021

Dolphins look forward to interacting with trainers

Published on appliedanimalbehaviour.com the 02.02.2018. | By: Isabella L.K. Clegg, Heiko G. Rödel, Xavier Boivin, Fabienne Delfour

Behavioural observation has corroborated that dolphins in modern dolphinaria look forward to interacting with their trainers – regardless of food.

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24. January 201823. January 2018

anti-zoo-initiatives, education, history, media-echo

The Error of the Strategy of Evasion and Appeasement

Published on dolphinaria.truth’s Page on Facebook on 01/23/2018

In North America, zoos and aquariums are trying their hand at evasion and appeasement. This comment explains the fallacy of this strategy.

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20. January 201819. January 2018

animal welfare, anti-zoo-initiatives, education, media-echo, research

Could animal rights organsiations and zoos/aquariums join forces?

Exclusive for zoos.media – 20th of Januar in 2018. Author: John Dineley, foreword: Philipp J. Kroiß

An article raised the question of whether zoos could not work with animal rights activists – a comment unmasked the error in the question.

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19. November 201719. February 2020

anti-zoo-initiatives, media-echo

Better dead than fed, PETA says

Published on sfgate.com the 23.06.2005. | By: Debra J. Saunders

An article, about PETA‘s killings, that shines a light on the opinions of PETA representatives and their ideology, and is more than shocking.

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4. November 20173. August 2022

animal welfare, anti-zoo-initiatives, history, media-echo

Keiko chose people, animal rights activists chose his death

Exclusive for zoos.media – 07.05.2017. Author: Philipp J. Kroiß

“At any price” was the agenda of the HSUS and its chief biologist Dr. Naomi Rose, as Mark Simmons explains: this agenda costed Keiko his life.

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2. November 20172. November 2017

conservation, media-echo

Zoos are saving species… and we can prove it!

Published on thezooscientist.com by: Ricardo Lemos de Figueiredo

In the article “Zoos Saving Species”, several examples of animal species are described which have been protected and saved by zoos.

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29. October 201727. April 2018

anti-zoo-initiatives, education, media-echo, research

Animal rights, human rights & zoos

Exclusive for zoos.media – 19.03.2017. Author: Philipp J. Kroiß

There is much talk about animal ethics, but little is known. So the article discusses animals in zoos in the context of current ethical discussion.

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22. October 2017

anti-zoo-initiatives, media-echo

Postcards and SMS, which do not benefit animals

Exclusive for zoos.media – 30.04.2017. Author: Philipp J. Kroiß

The article describes how radical zoo opponents mislead their donors with false promises about the data and what the funds are actually used for.

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22. October 201722. October 2017

anti-zoo-initiatives, media-echo

When animal rights activists become greenwashers

Exclusive for zoos.media – 14.05.2017. Author: Philipp J. Kroiß

Our author looks behind the facades of recent greenwashing campaigns by Virgin, Merlin and TripAdvisor and explains the background and facts.

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19. October 20174. March 2018

animal welfare, education, media-echo, research

Whales are happy during training

Exclusive for zoos.media – 27.03.2017. Author: Philipp J. Kroiß

The science proves it: training in modern zoos and aquariums is fun for whales. In dolphins and whales, happiness hormones are found during training.

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