Getting the hump: Camels in human care are domesticated

 

 

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Getting the hump: 

Camels in human care are domesticated 

 

Despite the fact that it has not being supported by bonafide empirical scientific research, the British government has now passed a law that they plan to ban wild animals in circuses by the 20 January 2020. The law does not cover domestic animals but what is intriguing is how the British government define domesticate.

In terms of this British act “wild animal” means: "wild animal” means an animal of a kind which is not commonly domesticated in Great Britain. This is an interesting turn of phrase because it does not allow some animals that are truly domesticated globally to be displayed in British circuses and a case in point is the camel.

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The Perfect Pair: The Enchanted Mirror and David Holroyd's selective memory

The sad and shameful truth is it was Holroyd himself used 'shake ups'. 'Shake-ups': a training method that no reputable marine animal trainer would have used then or now.

David Holroyd worked as a dolphin trainer from two years from early 1972 for ETAM (the leisure division of Truste House Forte) at Rhyl Dolphinarium in Wales and Knowsley Safari Park, Liverpool. Truste House Forte at this time also own Belle Vue Zoo and later a further dolphinarium at Woburn Safari Park.

In 2012, he published a book with his sister Tracy called: 'The Perfect Pair: The Enchanted Mirror'. The book is part of a now published trilogy with the second volume, The Perfect Pair: The Mirror Cracks, published in February 2014 and the third, The Perfect Pair: Shards from the Mirror, published in 2016.

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Animal in Circuses: Regulation Not Banning

“Good regulations based on internationally accepted standards for animal care and transport are the most appropriate way to ensure high quality animal care while at the same time preserving the rich and rewarding classical circus art form for the benefit of circus families, their animals and current and future generations of Europeans.” H.S.H. Prince Rainier III of Monaco

Logically, any basis for a ban on animal keeping should be assessed on the available evidence that relates to the actual welfare of the animals contained within these enterprises. Unfortunately, despite the government conceding that there is no such evidence, the UK government has given in to the propaganda of the animal-rights movement and wishes to ban wild animals in circuses on dubious 'ethical' grounds.

"...The 2007 Radford Report on circus animals concluded that there was insufficient scientific evidence to demonstrate that traveling circuses are unable to meet the welfare needs of wild animals presently being used in the United Kingdom. That position has not changed. Consequently, we are now looking at the means by which a ban could be introduced on ethical ground..."

WRITTEN MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. Minister of State for Agriculture and Food (James Paice) 1 March 2012

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