Zoos struggle to cover expenses without visitors: 'We're approaching a tipping point'

NO, WE don't need zoos, in fact like circus's they are places of animal abuse. Yet caged HUMANS like to CAGE other animals and plants so they don't feel lonely and out of place in their artificial environs. PLEASE, put the animals back in their proper habitats, and go find something else to do with your LIFE. OUR DRUG LIKE NEED to make money is what is screwing up everything, NOT the LOCKDOWN...

Zoos around the country remain closed because of the coronavirus outbreak, but their massive overhead expenses still remain.

TAMPA, Fla. — Life goes on for the animals at ZooTampa at Lowry Park.

The chirping of birds sounds across the sky. Giraffes and elephants roam the manmade savannah planes. And the penguins and manatees splash freely in their watery habitats.

All of this is keeping Chris Massaro, a general curator at the zoo, as busy as ever.
Chris Massaro, General Curator at ZooTampa, tends to a rhinoceros (Robert Sherman, Fox News).

Chris Massaro, General Curator at ZooTampa, tends to a rhinoceros (Robert Sherman, Fox News).

“We have about 1,100 animals,” Massaro told Fox News. “It’s a lot of work every day but it’s more than worth it.”

That action is happening behind the scenes. But, in the public spaces, it’s a completely different story. The Zoo has been closed to guests since March 16 due to the coronavirus outbreak. MORE...

SHOCKING!!! Looks like they are NOT counting cities where the inhabitants CONFINE themselves WILLINGLY!!!

Today, there are well over 10,000 zoos worldwide and over 2,400 in the U.S. alone.

Shut it down, shut it, shut it, down!!!

I agree that we should have no circuses and no zoos, animal parks. Let the aminals be free. No caged pets, aquariums, etc. period.