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).
“Zoochosis” is a term used for the specific behaviors that animals in captivity get due to unstimulating or even small enclosures. These behaviors are usually repetitive and purposeless, like pacing and overgrooming. According to one study “the median
Animals can become depressed and lifeless when living in a zoo. They start showing unnatural behavior such as pacing and sleeping all the time.
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...
Zoo birds cages do not offer freedom to interact with their same species. Some animals develop neurotic behavior because they are being trapped in theses small closed spaces when compared to the vast ground and land in their natural environment. This condition is known as zoochosis, it occurs when the animals have become so lonely and unhappy from everything being deprived away from their natural habitat. Symptoms of zoochosis in animals are when animals are rocking, swaying back and forth and in some cases animals abusing themselves and eating their own limbs are an result from this condition. A polar bear named Gus at the Central park Zoo had to live in an enclose that was 0.00009 percent of the size of his natural environment/ habitat ( Smith 1).
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
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.
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
Imagine you are at a zoo, and as you walk by, you see animals acting strangely. Animals are biting themselves, vomiting, or banging their heads against the cage bars or glass walls. You look at them, trapped in lonely enclosures and feel sorry for them, trapped inside cages or glass, with nowhere to go.
Most animals in the wild do not live alone their whole life. Animals in zoos are caged alone of their kind, and spend time in small roaming places in which they are expected to live. Animals in zoos often face physiological injuries, as well as psychological and emotional distress. Exotic specimen often encounter insufficient quantities of food. Are not provided with adequate veterinary services.
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
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 ...
According to the text “Do Animals Lose in Zoos?”, “critics of the modern zoo compare the zoo to a prison. Animals need room to climb, fly, swim, roam, or run. They need room to live a healthy life”. Confining animals to small spaces have shown bad results such as birds grooming themselves until all their feathers fall of and polar bears swimming in circles. Yes even though zoos try to give as much room to an animal as possible their is never enough animals are used to being able to wander. This means that Animals Should not be kept in small man made habitats because it can make them go
Zoo animals are usually kept in very cramped enclosures and do not behave like their wild counterparts. Polar bears, for example, are given about 10 metres of walking space whereas in their Arctic home they roam for many hundreds of kilometres. Similarly, primates, big cats and birds are often confined in cages where they lack exercise and stimulation. Many animals develop unnatural habits such as pacing back and forth or swaying from side to side.