Zoos Question

I think zoos are wrong!!!

Animals in captivity is wrong. Animals need to be in there natural homes. Yes in zoos they have everything they need. But, would you want to be locked up like that if you were an animal? Or would you want to be in the wild with lots of room to run,hunt,and play? I would. Some animals are taken away from their familys to be put in a zoo. Yes it is nice to see them up close. But think how you would feel if you were in a locked enclosure. Like a zoo! You don't have to agree with me. But you should know the truth.

mudear posted over a year ago

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Zoos Answers

cloudedleopard said:

First of all, you do not actually know the reason for zoos, I can see your point, but that is not what a zoo is. Most zoos, especially AZA approved zoos, do not take animals from their natural habitat. They get them from other zoos that have bred two together to help stabalize the species. Zoos are meant to preserve animals and do research so that they can determine how to help animals that have lost their homes due to deforestation, poaching, etc. So their main purpose is not to keep them in cramped cages where they are only there to show guests, although that was the case a few decades ago, but zoos have learned more to properly care for animals. Plus, a lot of animals are sometimes even given to the zoo by exotic owners who have no clue that they're should not have exotic pets. Zoos do not like when this happens, but they cannot just let random animals out into the wild where they do not belong and could die by cats hunting them or they get to close to humans because they do not know otherwise. So animals in captivity isn't wrong, some places probably do keep animals under inproper circumstances, but proffesional zoos don't do this type of thing. So true, animals are in enclosures, not in the wild, but its because their wild counterparts aren't able to survive in the wild. Zoos are also here to educate people so that they will make a difference and care about animals enough to try to think about their choices and if it can help the planet for everybody, because if everything keeps going the way its going around here on Earth, there wont be any animals around anymore.

posted over a year ago

Schnusch said:

Let me clarify this one for you. A zoo is made to prevent animals from dying out because the animals are not safe in their natural homes anymore for some reason. I know it's stupid but the most stupid thing is that men go hunting for animals in the first place.

posted over a year ago

Some animals could at least get some bigger space in their prison.

starwars101 posted over a year ago

That is true though. I've been to a Zoo once that really fascinated me by how much space the animals had and the environment was awesome too. I don't remember in what town it was, it is in Germany though. I haven't seen any zoo (luckily) where I was shocked by the lack of space. But I've only seen three zoos around where I live and it's pretty rural here so they have a wide range of what to make out of the place. On TV I've seen some of the terrible ones and it really breaks my heart that people call this animal saving in these cases. What hurts me the most though is a report I've seen on how cattle is treated. I became a Vegeterian from then on. Animals being kicked so they'd run faster some die on the ship to other countries and are thrown into the sea. Many are being tortured alive, they don't even care to kill the animals painlessly before they make meat of them.

Schnusch posted over a year ago

Generally animals do better in their natural habitats, but making and providing environment similarly to their homes is ok if made to protect them from predators.

akeen posted over a year ago