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05-13-2008, 06:12 AM
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i was going to ask if you could touchthe glass. this could be an issue. maybe a school field trip with 100 kids pouning on the glass for half an hour. who knows. but yes a PR nightmare.
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05-13-2008, 03:30 PM
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I support the zoo and attend it alot. I live close by and have a year round pass. I took some time when they first started, and spoke with the guy who was (running things??). I had some questions just as a normal visitor, not trying to be a salt water smart ***. I figured he would have some amazing knowlege and some really kick *** technical background. I was a little rattled at how little he knew beyond what was posted on the wall. After that I had a great deal of concern about those rays.
They kept telling people to keep their hands out of the water and, only a few people who were with zoo staff could touch the rays. Anyone else who has been there on a busy day can agree that there might have been like 5 people out of 400 that didn't have their hands in the water. I know lots of people who keep rays and they keep their hands out of the tank. I know it's easy to point out faults but, for the people running the zoo after the last big mess up. You would think that they would have put more thought into this one.
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05-13-2008, 03:59 PM
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"oh i want a hippopotamus for christmas"
The baby hippo died after that old media campaign spun down, in case anyone would like to know. Telus's commercial was kinda morbid I think actually lol. When I saw the ad for a "stingray touch tank" at the c-train station I knew there were some nasties going on and eventually something would happen. First off they file off the stingers of the rays. I'm sure some people'd question whether that's humane. And then you've got hundreds of hands in the water; if all those introduced chemicals aren't a recipe for disaster I don't know what is. I'm singling it out as a marketing gimick to get people going to the zoo. Unfortunately it was at the cost of the animals. I dislike PETA but I think the zoo crossed a line in order to collect more entrance fees 
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05-13-2008, 05:23 PM
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I have a hunch that the zoo was unprepared and uneducated to handle such an exhibit. San Diego Sea World has had an interactive California Bat Ray exhibit for years and I have never heard of any disasters of this magnitude occurring there. The ray tank was one of my favorite exhibits at Sea World, and yes, you could touch them.
The Calgary zoo has been getting far too much bad publicity recently and they have some some serous issues to resolve. I am not impressed!
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05-13-2008, 05:57 PM
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sounds to me lke the guy running the tank had insufficent knowledge for the job. there is absolutly no reason not to have a marine biologist in there for some thing that is this costly already.(pre Deaths)
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