Update 1.7, as it's known, introduces a new Terrain Type option enabling players to select between the standard Flat map prior to a game or a new Sculpted variant, with one new option available per biome type. Planet Zoo's North America Animal Pack will cost £7.99/€9.99/$9.99€ when it comes to PC on 4th October, and will be accompanied by a free update for all players. New enrichment items include the Beaver Pool, Skittle Feeder, Melon Feeder, Underwater Feeder, and Pronghorn Piñata, and the DLC also features a new timed scenario, this one unfolding in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. PBN has contacted The Museum of Science and Industry for comment.Watch on YouTube Planet Zoo: North America Animal Pack - Announcement Trailer. You can sign the petition to free the chicks here. These animals are only kept for their cuteness and discarded to make room for new chicks.” “It shows the museum’s disregard for the lives of the chicks. “There is a certain irony in teaching visitors about the emergence of life by showing them baby chicks hatching, but then not being transparent about the fact that these chicks will be killed days later,” she told PBN. Khoo said that none of the chicks when she visited appeared to be the Java species. When they arrive at the zoo, they are reportedly euthanized before they are eaten by leopards, snakes, birds of prey, or other animals. On its website, it claims that the chicks are part of a program that “helps preserve rare chicken breeds.”Īccording to reports, some of these rare chicks – the Java species, which are darker in color – are sent to a sanctuary to live out their days.Ī spokesperson for the museum confirmed in 2016, however, that around 7,000 white leghorn chicks are sent to the zoo each year. Khoo noticed the chicks were huddled under the light when she visited Why does the Museum keep the chicks?Īccording to The Museum of Science and Industry, the hatchery is part of its “genetics” exhibit. When Khoo visited, she noted that the chicks only moved from the light when customers tapped on the glass. If they are too cold, they will crowd and huddle near the heat source.” “A regular light bulb may provide enough warmth for any young chicks in this situation,” it states on its advice on how to care for chicks. According to the Open Sanctuary Project, this could indicate that they are too cold. Khoo also noted that the hatched chicks were huddled under a light. “Dozens of people crowded around the tiny incubation chamber watching baby chicks emerge out of their shells into a barren, unfriendly, metal enclosure.”
“I visited the museum while on a trip to Chicago and was appalled by the concept,” Adalea Khoo, who started the petition, told Plant Based News ( PBN). Now, a new petition to free the chicks has garnered over 1,000 signatures. There have been efforts to put an end to this practice since the 1990s. The chicks are kept on show for paying customers to look at for a week, after that, most are fed to Lincoln Park Zoo animals. It has been doing this as part of a chick hatchery “exhibit” since 1956.
The Museum of Science and Industry breeds 8,000 chicks annually (around 20 a day).
A museum in Chicago has come under renewed scrutiny for breeding and culling thousands of chicks a year.
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