Well hello there all out in the #colourful #blackandwhite world. I hope that you are all feeling wonderful today, where ever you are whatever you are doing!
And if you love your B&W, then please join us in the great #monomads #contest so kindly created by 
So today for my entry into this fantastic contest, I offer you some gorgeous animals, looking stunning in their Blackandwhite.
Now I just LOVE Giraffes anyway, but I think that they look just simply spectacular in their B&W's.
I can't decide which one I like the best, but I think that its this first one using the negative effect.
what do you think?
Straight up B&W or negative?
These photos were taken by me a few years ago when my niece who was 10 at the time came to visit me from rural Australia and so I took her to the zoo, but I do not condone animals in zoos, even if they are ok ones like the Melbourne Zoo, because animals should be free to be in their own environments.
I do know that there are 'good' zoos out there that do have great breeding programs for rare and endangered animals, but I think that there are far more zoos that are in really bad shape and the poor animals that are in there are in even worse conditions than even the worst prisons, so I implore you, support animals refuges and sanctuaries instead, because they are the places that that rescue and look after these animals properly for the rest of their lives.
If you want the best experience of your life, then I can guarantee that volunteering in an animal sanctuary will be it, without a doubt.
Here's a few good places that I have personally been too as a volunteer and can attest to their genuine compassion and care for all animals and they all need your help.
https://www.wfft.org/
Since its inception, the WFFT Wildlife Rescue Centre has given shelter to 1000’s of wild animals. Many of these animals are rehabilitated and released back to the wild. Those that cannot be released are provided with shelter for the rest of their lives.
The Wildlife Rescue Centre is the perfect place for volunteering with animals.
Every year, Soi Dog spays/neuters and vaccinates tens of thousands of street dogs and cats in Phuket, Bangkok, and other provinces of Thailand, and has, to date, neutered over half-a-million animals.
Soi Dog also campaigns for an improvement in animal welfare rights across Asia, and helps animals affected by natural disasters, such as the severe flooding in southern Thailand in 2017 and prior to that, the Bangkok floods of 2011 and the Asian tsunami of 2004.
https://www.gibbonproject.org/
One of the best ways to end those illegally use of gibbon is to end the demands, both for black tourist business and pet trade. We do this through the education of visitors at our Center for Conservation Education and Fund-Raising, the GRP hopes to create awareness of the plight of the captive gibbon and to the role that tourism plays in the demand for baby gibbons.
These animals are taken from the wild and exploited as tourist attractions. In the case of wild gibbons, the parents are killed in order to obtain the baby gibbon. The baby gibbon does not always survive the fall from the canopy once the mother is killed, so in most cases, many gibbons are killed to obtain just one baby. If these actions continue to be financially supported by tourists, gibbons will one day be extinct.
Like us, animals have biological needs and experience pain, stress and discomfort. Many are intelligent and feel complex emotions like joy, happiness, depression and distress. Studies show that they have family bonds and feel true compassion for each other.
But what they can’t do is speak for themselves. So it is easier for people to use them purely as commodities and ignore their suffering. It is up to us human beings to give them a voice, speak up on their behalf and end their abuse.
ACRES is an animal protection organisation, driven by our concern for animals. We adopt research projects on the use of animals in various fields. Research findings are then used to educate the public to promote active community involvement in the animal protection movement, as well as strive towards synergistic partnerships with authorities and related parties.
So I hope that you loved my animals tonight and if you would like to meet Bruce the romantic devil who lives at WFFT in Thailand, then checkout this bog I wrote earlier @chociscorpipro/sunday-funday-with-animals-in-blockchainphoto-themed-days
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