tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post9072197649341860908..comments2024-01-05T05:02:20.353+00:00Comments on CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: WHY WE HAVE TRANSFORMED `EXOTIC PETS` MAGAZINE INTO `THE AMATEUR NATURALIST` MAGAZINEUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-66940838779475637422009-02-15T01:38:00.000+00:002009-02-15T01:38:00.000+00:00Thanks girls :) I appreciate the support. We need ...Thanks girls :) I appreciate the support. We need to all pull together as a team, and we can make this happen...Jon Downeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467805661081755044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-15929971234374887502009-02-14T22:03:00.000+00:002009-02-14T22:03:00.000+00:00Jon - well said my man. As L.Weasel has said they ...Jon - well said my man. As L.Weasel has said they were thinking along the same lines, so I was thinking very similar thoughts (although I wouldn't be able to enunciate quite as eloquently as you yourself have put it!) I remember as a child keeping snails and woodlice in jam-jars, pestering the teachers at school to have a class pet, and any spare time spent halfway up a tree watching the adventures of caterpillars or laid in the grass watching the antics of ants. It seems these days all children want is to sit in front of their X-Box and kill pixelated enemies; these are tomorrows adults and are sorely lacking in the interests and skills that they will need to keep an interest in the natural world. <BR/><BR/>Bring back the Ameteur Naturalist - let the kids climb trees and fall out, let them go pond dipping and fall in, and educate them about the wonderful world around us with help from well run zoos and institutions - the world will be a very poor place if they ceased to exist.Sarah-Louise Darwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15785520968701406125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-35689987798180688582009-02-11T09:40:00.000+00:002009-02-11T09:40:00.000+00:00I think there is something in the air this year, o...I think there is something in the air this year, or maybe its just synchronicity, but I have also been thinking about such things, and have been wanting to go back to my interest in Natural History. <BR/>I agree with your ideas about Zoos. I do sometimes worrry that some are theme parks, but I suppose there is a difference between a Zoological Garden and an Animal park that can be made. what would be good would be if any place that has a scientific, investigative aspect could be given the title of Zoo(ological Garden), and places that are purely for entertainment could be designated Animal Parks, rather than the nebulous, oh its Nature its educational, approach. <BR/>Similar things seem to be lurking in museums, it can be all about the interactive displays and numbers, rather than learning about Natural History. <BR/><BR/>I've also lurked on Reptile forums, and some people (not all) seem to be all about breeding the most dramatic morph, or owning the most dangerous snake, and this macho attitude is reflected in the nature programming of such channels as Animal Planet/Discovery and National Geographic, its either extreme macho man-vs-nature programmmes with Bear Grylls or sharks, or anthropomorphic stuff with no actual content. I suppose this reflects the commercial pressures on these channels, but if only there were a change in the wholescale attitude of people. <BR/><BR/>Heh, sorry about the rant, your editorial just chimed with what I have been thinking about recently.Roselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16712160352016656586noreply@blogger.com