Plans for the only gorilla in Thailand's German retirement hits 30 M baht stumbling block

[Liverpool Lou]

23 hours ago, 2008bangkok said:

Im surprised you can legally own a gorilla

Zoos throughout the world own gorillas

[Liverpool Lou]

21 hours ago, Nicholas Paul KNIGHT said:

Cancel the licence to have her on public display and refuse any certificate to move her unless to a designated ZOO .

How?  The ape lives in a licenced zoo that has not done anything illegal nor does it mistreat the animal.  

[Liverpool Lou]

17 hours ago, Aussieroaming said:

It shows how useless the authorities are when they can't even save a gorilla.

The animal is in a licenced zoo, what is there for it to be "saved" from when the only alternative for it would be another zoo?

[Liverpool Lou]

17 hours ago, kennw said:

the greedy a/whole should pay for the cost to transport the poor animal.

Transport it to where?  Another zoo?

[Liverpool Lou]

17 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

 Back in the U.K. people would never accept this kind of happening .

You think that there are no zoos in the UK?!

[Liverpool Lou]

16 hours ago, Sydebolle said:

Get that primate out and let's hope (s)he will survive any trip to any less brutal, more common-sense making land. Absolutely despicable ........

Exactly what "despicable, brutal treatment" is the ape experiencing?  It is in a licenced zoo.

[VocalNeal]

Thailand has cruelty to animals laws. Someone simply needs to prove it is cruelty.

[Ralf001]

There has been numerous attempts to have Pata Zoo closed down but all have failed.

 

I suspect Vinai Sermsirimongkol has high friends in high places.

 

In saying that Cher has been campaigning to have the Gorilla freed, am sure the 795k asking price would not put a ripple in her 350m+ net worth !!

[VocalNeal]

No one should pay the owner of the gorilla  a brass farthing. Sad for the gorilla but she'll have to suffer to stop this kind of blackmail happening again.

 

Or viewing it another way. If the gentleman in question considers the animal to be a business asset then it needs to be converted into a business liability.

[Liverpool Lou]

16 hours ago, soalbundy said:

Surely there are laws regarding keeping an animal in unsuitable conditions

But the animal is not being kept in particularly unsuitable conditions, it's in a legal zoo.

[Liverpool Lou]

15 hours ago, rovinman said:

Very Sad to see this kind of cruelty.

You mean the "cruelty" of a zoo just like the zoos that exist in your  country also?

[Liverpool Lou]

7 hours ago, hotchilli said:

On 10/22/2022 at 11:00 AM, webfact said:

The owner will only sell for 30 million baht

????

The owner has since stated that claim was false, that the animal is not for sale and no offers are being considered.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, Joker Man said:

This is absolutely disgusting and wicked of the so called Greedy Owner. Why buy something he knows he cannot take good care...

Where has it been credibly reported that the Pata Zoo "cannot take good care of the ape"?

[Liverpool Lou]

17 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Cher has been campaigning to have the Gorilla freed, am sure the 795k asking price would not put a ripple in her 350m+ net worth !!

There is no asking price, it's not for sale.

 

If she did get her liver-spotted hands  on it the first thing she'd do would be to book it in for facial plastic surgery.

[Fat is a type of crazy]

53 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

How?  The ape lives in a licenced zoo that has not done anything illegal nor does it mistreat the animal.  

Captitivity of gorillas may not be ideal in any circumstances but there are zoos and zoos. Gorillas at Melbourne Zoo in Australia have plenty of room. In March they introduced 'platform stations - complete with vertical tree trunks, a multi-platform swing structure and a hammock - have been carefully designed to allow the primates to climb, swing and play, creating new opportunities for exercise and exploration that encourage natural movement and behaviours.'

The situation for this gorilla, alone and in relatively poor conditions, may be within Thai law but is it not reasonable for people to consider it is not appropriate. 

 

 

[userabcd]

58 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Exactly what "despicable, brutal treatment" is the ape experiencing?  It is in a licenced zoo.

it has no freedom, it is not in its natural habitat, it can't interact with any of its fellow natural species.

 

It is basically a in a human prison for life and this needs to end, it is cruelty beyond imagination.

[Liverpool Lou]

23 minutes ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

The situation for this gorilla ... in relatively poor conditions

What makes you say that it is in "poor conditions", have you seen it first hand?

[Liverpool Lou]

8 minutes ago, userabcd said:

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Exactly what "despicable, brutal treatment" is the ape experiencing?  It is in a licenced zoo.

it has no freedom, it is not in its natural habitat, it can't interact with any of its fellow natural species.

So what "despicable, brutal treatment" is it being subjected to?  No zoos anywhere give wild animals their freedom nor their natural habitat and those two circumstances do not constitute "despicable, brutal treatment".

[Fat is a type of crazy]

18 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

What makes you say that it is in "poor conditions", have you seen it first hand?

No but there's youtube and you can see the videos and compare them to videos of western zoos where there are clearly better conditions and the  gorillas are not alone. The latter being an important aspect of the issue at hand. 

[Liverpool Lou]

19 minutes ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

36 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

What makes you say that it is in "poor conditions", have you seen it first hand?

No

Ok, then.

[Liverpool Lou]

On 10/22/2022 at 11:00 AM, webfact said:

The owner will only sell for 30 million baht. 

That's been refuted as false information by the owner, the animal is not for sale.

[Fat is a type of crazy]

37 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Ok, then.

You are making out my only reply is no.

But modern technology allows us to see the conditions and we can get first hand accounts from others. I haven't paid to go to a zoo for some years and I would not pay to see this one.

Your apparent conclusion that that makes my argument invalid indicates poor logic and reasoning. I noted that a major concern is that the gorilla is alone. Is seeing it going to make a second one magically appear. Compare videos of this zoo and western zoo gorilla enclosures and one may draw conclusions. 

Your decision that a gorilla held alone in these conditions is acceptable is not a decision with which I concur.

[Ralf001]

18 minutes ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

You are making out my only reply is no.

But modern technology allows us to see the conditions and we can get first hand accounts from others. I haven't paid to go to a zoo for some years and I would not pay to see this one.

Your apparent conclusion that that makes my argument invalid indicates poor logic and reasoning. I noted that a major concern is that the gorilla is alone. Is seeing it going to make a second one magically appear. Compare videos of this zoo and western zoo gorilla enclosures and one may draw conclusions. 

Your decision that a gorilla held alone in these conditions is acceptable is not a decision with which I concur.

Got a link to vids of this zoo ?

[Fat is a type of crazy]

2 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Got a link to vids of this zoo ?

Google 'gorilla enclosure pata zoo video' and you shall find them

You might then like to google gorilla enclosure melbourne zoo video and compare.

[ezzra]

On 10/22/2022 at 11:00 AM, webfact said:

The ministry has been powerless to do anything despite many complaints from the public

There's lie the problem, where Thai ministries are powerful to run everybody lives, all of a sudden they're powerless in a face a blatant animals cruelty.. Bravo Thailand...

[Ralf001]

34 minutes ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

Google 'gorilla enclosure pata zoo video' and you shall find them

You might then like to google gorilla enclosure melbourne zoo video and compare.

As I thought, you have no links.

 

[Fat is a type of crazy]

31 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

As I thought, you have no links.

 

You are silly. They are there on google and youtube. I do not do your bidding.

[Fat is a type of crazy]

It doesn't take much to show the character of a man. Boy Ralf you take stuff seriously. Not face to face of course. 

 

[Mac Mickmanus]

3 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

You think that there are no zoos in the UK?!

No, I don't think that there are no zoos in the U.K 

[DezLez]

4 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

the first thing she'd do would be to book it in for facial plastic surgery.

Why need to do that as I'm sure it looks like her already?