That doesn’t mean I can’t feel bad for it being stuck in a zoo. Would you like to live in a zoo? Because it’s almost as smart as you are. And they aren’t re-introducing them in general.
Gorillas (and other primates) are being reintroduced back into the wild. The point of gorillas being kept in captivity is to maintain genetic diversity for breeding programs to avoid inbreeding. If there isn’t enough genetic diversity and the wild population disappears, that species will go extinct.
Nature isn’t one giant Disney movie. There is a reason gorillas live longer in captivity than in the wild.
![Gorilla in a Zoo [OC]](https://i.imgur.com/7haeDjA.jpg){kind=link}
“The Iberian lynx, California condor and pygmy hog are among animals that would have disappeared without reintroduction programmes, zoo-based conservation and formal legal protections since 1993, research led by scientists at Newcastle University and BirdLife International found.”
That doesn’t mean I can’t feel bad for it being stuck in a zoo. Would you like to live in a zoo? Because it’s almost as smart as you are. And they aren’t re-introducing them in general.
Gorillas (and other primates) are being reintroduced back into the wild. The point of gorillas being kept in captivity is to maintain genetic diversity for breeding programs to avoid inbreeding. If there isn’t enough genetic diversity and the wild population disappears, that species will go extinct.
Nature isn’t one giant Disney movie. There is a reason gorillas live longer in captivity than in the wild.