- Niagara University, New York, United States
abigail levin
Niagara University, Philosophy, Faculty Member
- Philosophy, Ethics, Applied Ethics, Pornography, Feminist Theory, Feminist Philosophy, and 24 moreSex and Gender, Embodiment, Social and Political Philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Judith Halberstam, Michel Foucault, Biopolitics, Critical Disability Studies, Crip theory, Queer Theory, Futurity, Animal Ethics, Lee Edelman, Lisa Guenther, Embodiment Theory, Cripqueer Critique, Buddhist Studies, Disabilty Studies, Identity, Psychology of Infertility, Zoos, Attitudes Towards Pets, and Critical Animal Studiesedit
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The international protest surrounding the Copenhagen Zoo's recent decision to kill a healthy giraffe in the name of population management reveals a deep moral tension between contemporary zoological display practices – which induce... more
The international protest surrounding the Copenhagen Zoo's recent decision to kill a healthy giraffe in the name of population management reveals a deep moral tension between contemporary zoological display practices – which induce zoo-goers to view certain animals as individuals, quasi-persons, or friends – and the traditional objectives of zoos, which ask us only to view animals as specimens. I argue that these zoological display practices give rise to moral obligations on the part of zoos to their visitors, and thus ground indirect duties on behalf of zoos to their animals. I conclude that zoos might take on interspecies friendship as a new zoological objective.
