Bird-Watching and Ornithology

Yeah, and prison wardens love their prisoners too.

Instead of blaming the vandal, maybe blame the zoo for having imprisoned the animal in the first place?

Zoos are sick, perverse places. It's not about saving animals or educating the public about animals - it's about salving our consciences for the ongoing destruction of our planet and environment by putting little bits of it in cages and telling ourselves that's enough. The number of wild animals in Latin America decreased by 94% since 1970, mostly through deforestation and farmland expansion. 94%. There were twenty times more animals in Latin America just fifty years ago. But we can see a jaguar in a zoo and the zookeepers make comforting noises about "saving the species" and so that's alright then.

And people have to pay to see the animals. So after killing nineteen out of every twenty we turn the last ones into capitalist commodities and tell ourselves we're doing the species a favor.

If you care about owls, stop cutting down their fucking trees. Don't shame good Samaritans for seeing a prisoner and wanting to free him.