The crocodiles are kept in an enclosed area where there is no way of escaping. The food that is given to the crocodiles is usually attached to “wires”. These animals are being repeatedly “shocked” with high voltage electricity. The idea behind this torture is to stop crocodiles from attacking people by subjecting them to behavior altering pain. According to this plan, every crocodile in every generation has to be repeatedly shocked to deter it from attacking people.
These morbid experiments are taking place along the Okabango River in Mahango National Park in northern Namibia in Africa. Contributors to this abuse of crocodiles includes the “Rufford Small Grants Program and the Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism”. The main instigators of this torture are the scientists who are conducting the experiments in “Behavioral Conditioning” to alter the behavior of crocodiles.
Experiments on animals have always been condemned as animal abuse. Incredible numbers of mice, rats, pigs and other animals have been maimed and killed in sadistic experiments. The shock experiments on crocodiles should not replace all of the more humane methods of dealing with these animals. Live trapping crocodiles and relocating them to refuges will always work, and crocodile barriers will also work. Unscrupulous people are infringing on the rights of an animal that has been on this earth for millions of years and deserves a lot better treatment.
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Conservation Departments are crowding people and wild animals together resulting in road kill and all kinds of conflicts. When their homes are destroyed wild animals have no place to go. People are overpopulating the world and destroying wildlife habitats. The simple solution of preventing conflicts between people and wild animals is to “divide” people and wild animals by providing animals with refuges. A portion of this planet should be set aside strictly for the preservation of the natural processes of nature and for the protection of wild animals.
Conducting sadistic experiments on wild animals to change their behavior will impede their ability to adapt to their environment. Under these conditions, animal traits that took millions of years to perfect are suddenly distorted to become a burden instead of an advantage. The end result is like evolution being thrown into reverse. All of these kinds of debilitating animal experiments should be permanently outlawed.
--Marlin O. Wallace
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