Would you be willing to risk your fun and enjoyment for an animal’s happiness? Everytime families go to the zoo and give them money, they are making an animal suffer. The more money zoos get, the more animals are taken. Animals are depressed every day because they are being deprived of their rights; their right to be free. It’s obvious that zoos are harmful to animals because the animals become depressed, the scientists wouldn’t learn much, and because they are not prepared enough when they are released back into the wild.
First of all, the animals become very sad and depressed due to the lack of happiness with their new habitat. It’s hard for animals to live happy and healthy in a small enclosure. In addition, when they are normally an outdoor
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Animal abuse is another big part of it all. With visitors tapping on windows, throwing things at the animals, it makes the animals annoyed. An animal being enclosed could possibly be a cause of unnatural behavior. For example, I always remember going to see the gorillas. But people are always tapping on the window or doing something obnoxious that the gorillas don’t like. Sometimes, the gorillas run up to the window and bang on it. To kind of say, “Hey! That’s enough.” Animals tend to suffer in confines and live under psychological pressure, which tends to reflect abnormal behavior. So researchers would be studying their weird behavior not their normal. When I go to the zoo, I always see that a lot of the animals look bored. For example, the Andean Bear from the Henry Doorly Zoo. There is a log in his enclosure, so all he does is walk back and forth behind it. Animals in captivity tend to not exhibit their natural behavioral traits in zoos, therefore, scientists won’t learn much about their normal behaviors. In one case of this, the only way for scientists to research their natural behavioral patterns is for them to study the animals in their natural habitat. Doing what they normally do every day in the open …show more content…
When the animals live in a zoo, everything is given to them. Most of the time, with their food, but in the wild they have to fight for themselves. People in zoos don’t prepare the animals enough to be able to hunt for their prey. Whenever I’ve been to a zoo, I see that they always give everything to the animal straight forward or they put it in a dish. I know for a fact that in the wild, to get anything, they have to fight for it. Furthermore, once the animals are taken into this artificial setting they get used to it, the longer they are there. So if they are unleashed back into the wild again it looks foreign to them because they are so used to being enclosed and being surrounded by windows and people watching them. Another example is when people go on a vacation. Usually if they are going there for vacation, it’s very new to them as they don’t know where everything is. It’s the same thing with the animals, once they are put into a different place, they don’t know what anything is. Some animals connect or create bonds with animals of the same species to travel their migratory path with. But when they are separated and moved from their habitat that bond is broken. As proof, when animals are taken from their natural habitat or the wild, as they are gone from it longer they lose more and more memory of it. Same thing with other animals of that specie, the animal losing memory of them. So when the
He states that “Animals in zoos and aquariums can live longer, healthier, and richer lives than their forbearers ever did in the wild.” Studies have proven again and again that for most animals a caged life was a short and unhappy one. To begin with, for many species, a stare is received as a threat. With the public constantly staring at the animals, many of them become depressed. Scared and depressed animals might fill the hours with repetitive behaviors known as stereotypy: masturbating to a danger point, pacing their paws raw, or swaying endlessly from side to side (Cokal 492).
They are forced to live in captivity and are deprived of their right as animals and are treated unjustly and unfairly. Animals are taken away from their home and family. They have no control over their own life everything is controlled by the zoo. What their next meal is going to be, who they mate with, where they live. Why should animals have this chosen for them?
However, there is another side to the educational perspective. A critic of zoos, Yourofsky argues against the positive education experience others believe zoos provide, supporting his opinion with how the animals are in their unnatural habitats. Yourofsky writes, “one cannot learn about animals who are in an UNNATURAL habitat displaying UNNATURAL behaviors from the stress of confinement and lethargy of captivity” (Yourofsky). Hence, from this logic the educational experience is minimized because the animals are in an inaccurate environment, impacting behavior and differentiating from how they would truly behave if they were in their natural habitats.
Animals, particularly the larger ones, are unable to live comfortably in small enclosures. Zoos tend to forget that larger animals have the hardest times getting used to the spaces that they are forced to live in. According to James Nolan’s article, “All the Reasons Why Zoos Should Be Banned”, “…the average lion or tiger has 18,000 times less [space] in captivity than it does in the wild; polar bears a million times less [space]” (7). Although zoos try to recreate their natural habitats, they cannot possibly succeed. The animals, if not born at the zoo, lived in large areas and had all of the freedom that they
Zoos are very inhumane, because the animals are put to their misery inside of their cages Lions and tigers have around 18,000 times less space in a zoo and Polar bears have one million times less space when living in a zoo.
As a kid, I had always looked forward to days at the zoo. I was, however, far more interested in the jungle-themed surroundings than the educational parts. I was told that zoos protected animals and took good care of them. Now I'm not too sure that's the truth. Animals like tigers, lions, and elephants are born to live and grow up in the wild. They aren't meant to live inside of a cage in a zoo. Not only that, but the animals' health isn't as good as you'd expect. Although lots time and money has been spent on zoos, animals are still suffering. Zoos are fun and exciting for kids and tourists, however, the animals aren't enjoying it as much as us.
How is it possible that someone who was born in a log cabin became one of our greatest presidents? Abraham Lincoln is famous for freeing all the slaves in the South and abolishing slavery with the 13th Amendment. He was known as the “People’s President” because he allowed people to report their problems to the White House straight to him. Lincoln was also well known for passing the Homestead Act, which allowed poor people to own land. Although most people are familiar with these events, many don’t realize that he had a poor and tragic life growing up.
One of the many disadvantages animals have is being locked in cages of zoos, is to enjoy the quality of freedom and independence. The animals can’t enjoy the satisfaction of catching their own prey, or the relief of living in their own natural habitat. Plus, the size of the zoo provides for the animals is too small, so the animals don’t get the proper exercise like they would in the wild. Studies have shown tigers and lions have around 18,000 times less space in zoos then they would in their natural habitat. In fact , Woburn Safari Parks was keeping its lion...
Even though some zoos have an endangered species exhibit with the intention of protecting and rehabilitating animals, many do not do an adequate job of protecting the animals. Zoos have been harmful to the very animals they have sworn to protect. Animals in captivity often suffer from anxiety, boredom and other severe issue related to prolonged confinement. Most animals are unable to thrive in small enclosure with unnatural weather and climates. For example elephants are known to walk as far as 30 miles per day, but the association of Zoos and aquariums only require a space the measures $0 feet by 45 feet, which is about the size of a three car garage, to house these large animals. (peta.org) the drastic difference in the amount of space their allowed ...
The well being of animals are not well cared for in zoos. Some may argue that zoos attempt to accommodate the animals to the most natural environment possible. Despite some improvements many animals in traditional zoos still encounter health issues and stereotypical behaviours due to the small enclosures (See figure 1). The lack of room zoos encounter is insufficient and keeping animals isolated in a not so large area is detrimental to the health of the animals. “Studies have found that lions in zoos spend 48% of their time pacing and 40% of elephants performed stereotypic behaviours” (Sad eyes & empty lives). These anim...
For example, whales in the wild swim 100 miles a day in the ocean, while in captivity they are living in a pool that is so small it is like living in a bathtub. Today, zoos often portray that they are trying to educate people on animals and their habitat, attitude, and skills. However, seeing animals in the zoo is not going to educate anyone about how the species lives because people are only going to see captive, cramped, and depressed animals. Many people in today's society believe that animal captivity is indeed a fantastic way to keep animals protected, well fed, and happy.
When animals are in small spaces they basically go crazy because they don’t really have anywhere to go while in the wild they have tons of space to. Animals love having space to walk around just like us humans do put us in there place for instance we would freak out to if we were in as small of a place as they are in captivity. Animals should have this space this is why they should be in the wild because then they won’t have bad behavior. According to the article Do Animals Lose in Zoos when animals are in small spaces it causes not normal behavior. Although animals seem normal when you go to see them at a zoo they are not they just aren’t showing
Inside a cage a predatory animal are not allowed to hunt and will eventually lose their natural survival instincts, preventing them from every being able to be released back into the wild; nocturnal animals find it difficult to maintain normal sleeping hours and routines because of zoos operational hours; and temperatures and fauna from the animals native home cannot be easily replicated leading to zoo employees feeding animals alternative forms of nutrients disrupting the natural order of
Also, zoo life does not prepare animals for the challenges of life in the wild. For example, two rare lynxes released into the wild in Colorado died from starvation even though the area was full of hares, which are a lynx’s natural prey. The zoo is an unnatural environment that exposes animals to numerous dangers. Diseases often spread between species that would never live together naturally. For example, many Asian elephants have died in US zoos after catching herpes from African elephants.
First of all, when animals are in controlled environments they lose their natural instincts. In captivity animals are safe from predators, they receive medical attention, and are fed on a regular schedule. This makes them not used to the threats of the wild and they lose their natural instincts. It is understandable that animals may not need natural instincts in zoos or sanctuaries but if the goal is to release the animals back into the wild they could die off again because they have to hunt for themselves and protect themselves again. This means that animals shouldn’t be kept in safe habitats and that “protecting” these animals is actually crippling them.