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contact vs no contact

    The Tucson Zoo is a no-contact zoo, in order to preserve the wild behaviour of the animals as much as possible.

However, it seems to me that positive contact is the best available enrichment for many of the animals, especially the elephants.  After seeing the well-adjusted and high-contact elephants at the Calgary zoo, in contrast with our lonely pair, I'm really considering lobbying or finding out if the contact/no-contact decision is ever to e revisited...
 
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