Calgary Soo - Beluga Whales

The story and quote attiributed to the head of the Clagary Zoo on the inclusion of Beluga whales in the new and extravagant addition to the Calgary Zoo is ludicrous.

Who would think that an animal that spends its life roaming the Arctic Ocean would consider living in a phone booth as living in the, 'most natural setting?'

If the zoo boss, council members, MLA's, and corporate sponsors who will be asked to support this idea all think it is a good idea, then they should be made to live in a telephone booth for a year. That means eating, sleeping, urinating, deficating, breathing, and procreating in that confined space.

I would like to know how anyone would consider this humane, good research, and something they would do to themselves or their own pets.

We as a province and city have laws on the methods people can keep and treat their animals, either in their conditions or confinement, which we have enforced against citizens in the past.

Why do we think that some whale should be exempt, purely to feed the ego of a misdirected bureaucrat?

If in fact this addition of a whale to the zoo is for public information and education, then why doesn't the zoo take people to the Arctic and study the whale in their natural habitat.

Researchers would not study humans kept confined in a phone boots and consider the data useful for anything more than the lining of a birdcage.

We have better things to spend our money on.
Thank youNorm Greenfield