Without visitors, zoos across the U.S. are scrambling to cover the costs of caring for animals. Some have turned to online fundraisers. 'I'd get out on the highway and collect aluminum cans if that's what it took,' an official at the Birmingham Zoo said.
Animal keeper Sam Delzell touches the paw of a mountain lion during a feeding at the Oakland Zoo in California on April 16. The zoo is offering a subscription service that features live-streamed interactive programs with keepers and animals.Animal keeper Sam Delzell touches the paw of a mountain lion during a feeding at the Oakland Zoo in California on April 16. The zoo is offering a subscription service that features live-streamed interactive programs with keepers and animals.
Those costs are normally covered in large part by ticket and refreshment sales and gift shop purchases."It's roughly 85-90 percent of our total revenues throughout the year," Pfefferkorn said."We're very dependent on the community and their support." by selling newly-designed T-shirts featuring its star hippo, and is holding regular online fundraisers that have raised more than $100,000.this week that as a last resort, the zoo may have to consider killing some of the animals to feed to others. Director Verena Kaspari told the German Press Agency that the Neumünster Zoo near Hamburg has had to draw up a last-resort plan detailing which animals would be euthanized first, and in which order.
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