Certainly, that changes the kitten or the hamster having fun at the gallery at home, but all the same: seeing chimpanzees, bears, crocodiles or wild animals in the heart of a city, no longer a question! In any case, there is no longer any question in Nancy, whose zoo nevertheless welcomed these wild species a few decades ago in the heart of the Nursery, but which now advocates something else: at a time when we are learning to consider the animal welfare, the municipality has said it intends to reduce the number of non-domestic species in the Pép ‘enclosures. Intention confirmed on December 22 by the departure to Belgium, and for a more adequate refuge, macaques de Java settled in Nancy in 1984. Monkeys who will obviously be little regretted.
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” In the mood of time “
“It’s a very good thing to have found a more suitable place for them,” said Marine, who came this Sunday morning to say hello to mammals and birds with her little Astrée, 3 years old. “It’s nice to be able to introduce children to animals, but the environment has to be suitable. I even wonder if some enclosures are not a bit small here… ”
Same story or almost with Catherine, retired who came to take the air of the Pép ‘in family. Including his grandson Leopold, still disappointed… “We had come to see the monkeys, too bad for him; but hey, there is surely a good reason for this choice. ”If the one who has always known the“ zoo ”of the Pépinière admits a certain nostalgia -“ I have always seen monkeys here ”-, the new orientation of the City does not really surprise her. “It’s trendy, in tune with the times… We should be able to accommodate all kinds of animals, but in decent conditions. “
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“Why not an educational farm? “
“At home in Lyon, in town at the Tête d’Or park, we find giraffes, monkeys, and before there were bears … But here it seems small”, confirms Xavier, Nancy expatriate in the city of Gones and returned to his land for the holidays.
Whether small or not, others have ideas for this evolving space. “Having moved these macaques is very good because they had nothing to do here, they needed a place more suited to their living conditions”, welcomes Nicolas, quadra residing at Rives de Meurthe. “Now, why not remove this rock and create a real little educational farm for children, with goats, ponies, in short, animals that would be properly welcomed. I remember seeing, when I was little, the bears and Jojo the monkey, they looked sad, unhappy, inactive… ”
Another era, now over …
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