Category Archives: Captivity

Ducks in Norfolk hurting bad

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Every child who has ever fed the ducks In ponds around Learns to appreciate water fowl Wherever they are found The sadness is that carnivores Have need to eat all meats And ducks too find their eaten As one of … Continue reading →

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BALI the tourist trade in Monkeys

Posted on January 31, 2020 by Rex Tyler

In Denasar And BAndung Cruelty is rife Long Tailed Macaques Are captured close to cities and treated to a life Of awful strife Their suffering In the extreme Is every single day Chained up on short cutting chains That drive … Continue reading →

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Chang Puak Camp Zoo THAILAND

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Ignorance is an issue At this established zoo An no appreciation for what They all should do Clearly there’s crass ignorance And a lack of education Shallow and superficial And letting down the Nation Thailand deserves better By a long … Continue reading →

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Pig HELL in Ballymena

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Rex Tyler

There is a total lack of understanding For an animal that apparently Has many traits yet when we farm them We neglect them and it’s purposely In my mind this already is an arrogance Which we Use against the porcine … Continue reading →

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Behind our backs

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Behind our backs In full sight What we are going to see Is a complete transformation Smart cities There will be Control oh yes big brother And sister and the gang Monitor and spy on us Let civilisation hang Fire … Continue reading →

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Poachers at work

Posted on January 3, 2020 by Rex Tyler

A Nature Reserve In South Africa Suffered an incident where 8 lions were poisoned Using toxic meat And died in the vilest despair Poachers then removed their paws And their jaws “Muti” the reason believed In Zulu it’s medicine A … Continue reading →

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PINNAWALA OPEN ZOO

Posted on September 27, 2019 by Rex Tyler

It’s been opened only four years It is an open zoo Still under construction That much it seems is true It is known as an orphanage But really that’s misleading The elephants there are prisoners And therefore I am reading … Continue reading →

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The SAN Juan de Aragon Zoo

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Rex Tyler

There have been many problems With this particular zoo A lot of animals die there That factor is true Built in 1964 Supposedly to be More open and it never worked So apparently in 1999 they closed the zoo And … Continue reading →

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EPESI

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Rex Tyler

At Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire Yesterday we saw A giraffe called EPESI Kick the bucket It’s hard to ignore 11 years old a baby still Developed a Bad hoof It was causing him some problems If we needed any proof … Continue reading →

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Makani

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Rex Tyler

His father was a wild born orca His Mother So was, she His fathers sperm was frozen That’s how it he came to be With SEAWORLD artificiality is everywhere They talk up education And overlook despair Makani SAN Diego A … Continue reading →

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Baby breakups poor little elephants

Posted on August 26, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Such ignorance such selfishness Zimbabwe what to do You were gifted pachyderms To live their whole life through A so so social being Intellectual suicide Where is your lateral thinking Telepathy aside A baby needs it’s mother Deep thought and … Continue reading →

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Tambling and Tommy Winata

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Sumatra is a proper wildlife experience creativity and passion there 45,000 hectares of wild tropical forest 14500 hectares of coastal plain A famous guy called Tomy Winata In Lampung province it appears that he Bought up Tambling area to set … Continue reading →

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Gestation prison

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Gestation crates Are just about pig sized And were invented By a psycho case for certain A selfish and demented Farmer who was after Cramming more sows in his barn The poor souls couldn’t turn around It’s sounds like some … Continue reading →

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Those poor pigs

Posted on June 21, 2019 by Rex Tyler

A farm in Wales That truly pales Into neglect and horror they Extinguished the good And so rarely should Have created a life A meaningless place A senseless cell Filth and disgrace Bedlam and a chaotic state Unruly and lawless … Continue reading →

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Julian

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Skulduggery exists The perfidiousness creates The frame-up of the century Such Hypocrisy conflates Truthfulness and honour With the sanctimonious way Of misquoting and misinforming And making people pay Inventing pure falsehoods Wholly insincere Betrayal and duplicity So prophetic and so … Continue reading →

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Julian

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Silence in my cell alone To have and own free will To whistle and to blow the sounds of freedom And to still My sleeping restful mind Into a sweet immunity Surrounded by the murderers Whose faces Just haunt me … Continue reading →

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Roma not my ideal place to be

Posted on May 12, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Roma not my place to be Not when its captivity Joylessness My sinking heart Defeatism To be apart AFrica where skies are blue And the air is sweet Just for the few Who know the freedom And can say They … Continue reading →

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Pigs slaves to man unkind

Posted on April 3, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Omnivores So badly thought of By some humans who Have been brainwashed By the farming crowd By the meat trade Clueless to The immaculateness Of the wild pigs The wild hogs And the swine Who are kindly family Members With … Continue reading →

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“Lyka” hold up in the Philippines in MAASIN ZOO

Posted on March 29, 2019 by Rex Tyler

One of the worst zoo’s around anywhere This one in the Philippines Ethically unaware MAASIN it’s called sub standard alas Where a Lion they called “LYKA“ Is part of the morass She is blind which is just as well Really … Continue reading →

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Agricultural Shows

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Rex Tyler

We exist in actuality Undeniably Enduring and well grounded Flesh and blood We be Animals That human beings Use captivity Fear and farming methods As a philosophy Together we all represent The Meat Trade YES on show You bring your … Continue reading →

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It all happened at salt creek thanks to GUMTREE

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Rex Tyler

The horror film “WOLF CREEK” they had discussed it A very frightening movie And so they two young women Agreed to join up and Travel off to Salt Creek Two hours outside Adelaide That day A wilderness these backpackers On … Continue reading →

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Beavers made into coats

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Rex Tyler

The tastelessness The vulgarity The obscenity of it all The need to want a fur coat And a wild soul then to call On to provide its skin and hair That creation gave it So hags can walk about believing … Continue reading →

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DUBAI And its dolphins

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Rex Tyler

5 Bottlenose dolphins SENYA/KSYUSHA/FEKLA/TETKA/JERRY 4 fur seals GHOSHA/MAX/FILA/LUSHA Based in childrens City DUBAI. The oil revenues that bolstered this place Have more or less gone Its extremes though now grace The capital city with Excess and more The most populous … Continue reading →

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Captivity

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Rex Tyler

You came from the ocean And where are you now In a tank made of concrete But tell me how Can you live in an enclosure With no life around Just the strong smell of chlorine And the audience sound … Continue reading →

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Kaavan

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Morghazar Zoo ISlamabad An elephant Feels really sad 28 years chained by his feet He weaves a lot For they have him beat Still responsive Though in some shock The overwhelming neglect Would knock Any soul and make them feel … Continue reading →

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They say charity begins at home but only if you are a farmer

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Rex Tyler

A drought affects us all And business suffers most Anything to do with the land Can drive profits to toast Its not just drought if any major mishap Does occur Where cessation makes us suffer And losses we incur Where … Continue reading →

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The elephant and the other great beasts and a special thought for iceland 76

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Rex Tyler

From wildness and abundance In the wilderness of cause Ancestral shadows flourish And to some a diapause A wistful inclination Of the enemy abroad Whose arrogance and ignorance We battle to afford As size goes we are Truly a dominating … Continue reading →

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ZIMBABWE not the best place to be born

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Rex Tyler

There has always been a lack of understanding A kind of godlessness And lack of care Elephants in Zimbabwe find themselves Sold off abroad Actually it could be anywhere One really lovely soul Known as Anna Louise Went off to … Continue reading →

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Wild life trafficking from the EU

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Traditional Chinese Medicine From historicity Some might say its justifiable But the illegality Surfaces in this day and age For there are wiser choices now Medicine has moved on a lot We must therefore ask how Morality of right and … Continue reading →

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“Marjan” the last lion

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Rex Tyler

A precious stone they called him A gift from Cologne Zoo To Kabul Zoo on Kabul river When he was just two That was in 1976 It was a thriving place But was dangerous and very threatening And wars moved … Continue reading →

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