{"id":6347,"date":"2015-06-12T05:53:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T05:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6347"},"modified":"2015-06-12T05:53:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T05:53:04","slug":"whats-the-collective-noun-for-zoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/06\/12\/whats-the-collective-noun-for-zoos\/","title":{"rendered":"What's the collective noun for zoos?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wondered about this as I was browsing the recent flush\u00a0of 'zoos are a problem \u2013 but we love them' stories in the media. \u00a0According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Appendix:Glossary_of_collective_nouns_by_subject\">Wiktionary<\/a>, there isn't such a term\u00a0\u2013 yet. \u00a0But I think that\u00a0NAEE might just have suggested a promising one.<\/p>\n<p>Their recent <a href=\"http:\/\/naee.org.uk\/an-ambivalence-of-zoos\/\">blog<\/a> suggests 'ambivalence' which is a nice even-handed, even neutral sort of term. \u00a0I'd have suggested something stronger myself \u2013 <em>incarceration, <\/em>perhaps<em> \u2013\u00a0<\/em>as I have little time for the half-truths\u00a0about their role in conservation that zoos\u00a0routinely tell the trusting folk who give them money. \u00a0Of course, it is the case that animals are physically much safer in zoos than outside \u2013 a point made with some force by a character in Peter H\u0153eg's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/978-0-14-026844-7\">The Woman and the Ape<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and the best of care is often available, until, that is, animals\u00a0become surplus to genetic requirements when fatal eugenic force can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2014\/03\/140326-lions-copenhagen-zoo-killing-animals-world-science\/\">swiftly<\/a>\u00a0be brought\u00a0to bear. \u00a0It's a tough life whether you're\u00a0inside or\u00a0outside the cage.<\/p>\n<p>I think, 'ambivalence' might do nicely, as this seems to capture the prevailing\u00a0mood.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wondered about this as I was browsing the recent flush\u00a0of 'zoos are a problem \u2013 but we love them' stories in the media. \u00a0According to Wiktionary, there isn't such a term\u00a0\u2013 yet. \u00a0But I think that\u00a0NAEE might just have...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}