Animals also have to be subject to ‘concentration and selection’ as we consider how to spend limited budget and use limited land.

I would think most animals would be happy to move out of Tennoji zoo--it's a pretty sad looking place

Tennoji Zoo is one of the worst zoos I've ever been to. I left that place feeling depressed. You can usually tell a person's character by how they treat other living things, in this case we can see that of Japan's.

They were moved lucky their pelts weren't on E-Bay. Small steps.

How about getting rid of zoos altogether? If not, then have a global humanitarian standard that ensures the welfare of the animals? Humans put them in this situation, humans are responsible for them until they die. Geezus, sometimes I really detest the human species...