Nowadays, artworks, that nonhuman primates in captivity (such as orangutans) make, are usually sold and shown publicly. People should be aware that buying those artworks is equal to helping persons who capture those animals gain more profit. Consequently, there will be more animals that capable of making piece of art captured by humans who want to harvest from them. Therefore, government must make law to prohibit selling artworks that come from encaged animals. Many animals that can produce art are conserved animal, some of them are endangered such as orangutan. Although sciencetists and zoo biologists do some researches in this topic, some people just harvest from those poor animals. They can be trained to draw, and of course many people are excited and want to buy what they call art without thinking that if they keep buying, those animals will have to draw something for their entire life. They are not artists. They want to live their life in woods. They are also not pets. It’s true that we can tame them, but that is not their natural instinct, unlike dogs that we can train them to play dead or to catch a throwing stick. Moreover, the numbers of animals, that will be captive because of the profit they can give to human, will rise. Thus, government must not allow people to sell any pieces of art that animals produce.
Monday 30 November 2009
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I agree with you that people should be careful about the artwork made by nonhuman primate before they are going to buy it. The more demand of this artwork causes the extinction of some species in nature because the animals will be controlled in the cage where they have to practice drawing or painting. Then they will loose their natural instinct.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I have found that Saint Louis zoo does the program that can save the endangered animals from extinction(Animal Artwork from http://peteraep.blogspot.com/2009/11/animals-artwoks.html#comment-form). They sell the pictures that are drawn by animals in that zoo to get the money. They spend that money for protecting some endangered species.