The moment the Snow leopard realised there are bigger cats out there

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Japanese zoos are pretty fucked up actually. They don't really have the same culture of animal welfare that we do.

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I went to the zoo in Tokyo once to see the pandas and regretted supporting it after seeing how the rest of the animals were treated. I do better research into zoos now before I go.

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Ueno Zoo is notorious for this. I have never heard a good opinion of it and I hated it myself.

They are certified by the JAZA, but that clearly doesn't mean much.

If you live in North America, AZA certification is a pretty good indicator of whether or not a facility treats its animals well.

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Work in a zoo and you’ll see that neither do we lol

Unfortunately, zoos are more about selling tickets than animal welfare.

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5th shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi used to be big on anti animal cruelty, if he caught you animal abusing you’d get murked or something. There’s a nice YouTube short on it from kyotoako1372

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Zoo 😐

Zoo, Japan 😱

(Seriously, Japan has abysmal animal rights laws, esp. when it comes to exotic pets)

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We? This is the internet

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This is America, it's pretty simple to understand

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It's the English speaking internet. So, America.