A wildlife park in the Scottish Highlands was in the news recently when one of its macaques escaped into the surrounding countryside and was at large for six days before being recaptured in someone's garden with the deft use of some left-over Yorkshire Pudding . This story left me rather despondent and speechless, of which more shortly. Fortunately, or perhaps not, the same couldn't be said of the internet, which instantly offered up a host of memes, including this prime example shared by the BBC from Facebook. When it comes to zoos, wildlife parks and natural history museums, I must admit to being rather conflicted. Whilst I understand that educating people about Nature has an important part to play in combating both species and habitat decline, and I know full well that captive breeding programmes and their resulting re-introductions can benefit critically-endangered species, I still have huge reservations about the concept and traditions. In the case of zoos and parks, it i...