Unconscious Zoo

2002/01/23 Elhuyar Zientzia

• Zoologia
• Etika

From a smuggling box that did not reach their destination, a large lion and a python snake, in Tijuana (Mexico), by chance, form a zoo.

On the border between Mexico and the United States there is a tremendous traffic of exotic animals, proof of this is the number of animals that border guards observe along the way. Knowing that this figure represents only 0.45% of the traffic, accounts come out shortly.

But today is another curious thing. Since 1995 and to the present day, because the border guards had no place to store all the animals trapped or abandoned by the people on the road, they have been depositing in the park of Morelos. As the years progressed, there were more and more animals and in the end they have organized an unconscious zoo.

The first animal arrived in the park in 1995, a beautiful papátero. Currently they have 250 animals of 46 different species. It's not a terrible zoo, but it's not a bad brand!

Once the zoo is organized, those responsible want to take advantage of the work done to denounce animal trafficking and show how much they suffer outside their habitat. But always, for that it takes a lot of money and we will have to see if those animals are not going to end up in private collections like the others.