Zoos
By: Ava Winkle
Zoos should be shut down because animals get treated like slaves, they get torn from their families, and they get frustrated. Animals are beautiful creatures that have their own way of living. They don’t want to be locked up in a cage and treated like things. They want space to run and play and have fun. Let them have the fun they deserve, and the freedom they need.to help animals not harm animals. Animals are not ours.
Zoos should be shut down because animals get treated like slaves, they get torn from their families, and they get frustrated.The first reason that zoos should be shut down is animal slavery. For example, they don’t always get the food they need or the exercise they need. This shows that they are confined to small spaces and they have to adapt to new foods that aren't good for their bodies. Another example is that they get whipped and beaten if they don’t do what their trainers want them to do. This makes them weak and stable. This means that they might even be unable to do what their trainers tell them to do.
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For example, in the article, primary kids (zoos), it says, “animals are not happy in zoos. They want to be free to walk, run, fly, climb, hunt, and have families. They don’t want their babies to be taken away from them and put in a different cage or sold to a different zoo.” This shows that animals want their families and when their babies get taken from them, they usually never come back. Another example is that zookeepers say that the animals get saved. How would the animals get saved? And what would they get saved from? Their families? This means that zookeepers are lying to us when they say that animals get
Keeping animals locked in cages, bored and cramped up in such a small space is an awful sight to show the children. It creates an image in the little minds of children that animals are to be treated like they don’t matter. They say Zoos are a place where children can learn about the wild, exotic animals, but in reality it doesn't teach them anything only that they are meant to be caged up, which is wrong. Also, it is really painful to see the animals bored and lonely, so why should people keep letting them do this to these beautiful creatures. Animal captivity for entertainment should end to let them go to their rightful home.
Zoo captivity is substandard and inadequate for animals. Zoo animals are deprived of their right as animals they are treated unjustly and unfairly. Animals should not be forced to kept in a cage away from their natural environment and be used as a form of entertainment to humans. The animals also suffer from stress and are driven insane by being trapped behind bars. The zoo is supposed to provide safety to these endangered animals but instead, these zoo animals are put at risk towards a variety of dangers such as vulnerability to diseases and starvation.
When people go on a trip to the zoo, it can be assumed that they do not think about much more than what they can see. Signals that make zoos unfair and sometimes unbearable for the captive animals are not visible to most spectators. This essay will explain how zoos are unjust and should not be supported. Animals should not be held captive due their negative behavioral changes, lack of natural habitat and the zoos failure to effectively preserve endangered species.
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 can become depressed and lifeless when living in a zoo. They start showing unnatural behavior such as pacing and sleeping all the time.
For example, they have been physically and mentally destroyed. That is bad because they could die in the cages. This is also bad because they could not forget important things like to eat and not to hurt the zookeepers. This shows that they do not like the cages and could die from being in the cages too long. Also, some animals bite at the bars on the cages or pound on the glass because they are unhappy from being in cages too long. That is bad because they could they could break their teeth or their beak and not be able to eat so they could die from starvation. Also, a gorilla could run and pound on the glass and break it, they could escape the cage, he could hurt people and run out of the zoo and out onto the streets. This all shows that animals do not like the cages and zoos should be
It’s always fun to go with your friends and family to see cute and exotic animals when you go to the zoo, right? You may think that they have the best life having people to give them things that want and to protect them, but some of them are actually suffering just for our amusement from being in that small enclosure all day and all night. Animals should not be put in zoos because they can develop many mental and physical health problems due to the absence of some natural necessities and they are not always treated as nice as you think.
Both sides of the issue of whether or not zoos are good for animals both have in common that they just want to protect the animals. As Lisa Granshaw says in her article “How
Zoo animals’ behavior reflect their feelings. Behavioral research conducted on zoo animals is controversial because nothing can be learned by studying animals that are kept in unnatural conditions. Environments trigger behaviors. The Born Free Foundation in the United Kingdom has investigated how animals feel about captivity by studying t...
Trainers have been known to use electric prods or even blowtorches on these animals. Even some of the difficult animals are drugged, and sometimes their teeth and claws are removed to make the animals easier to handle.
Zoos display fascinating animals from all over the world for human entertainment, research, conservation, and education. Many scientists conduct studies on animals in captivity that they may not have been able to in the wild. Zoos educate all the visitors that come; they let people know everything that they know about the animals on display. We do learn a lot from these animals, but not all of the animals in the zoo are behaving like they normally would in the wild. Larger animals, such as elephants and orcas (commonly known as killer whales), have trouble with being confined in such a small area. However, many smaller animals benefit from zoos because they provide protection from predators, natural disasters, and poachers. They also benefit from conservation efforts; the babies being born get all the care they could ever need. Some animal rights activists are concerned that the conservation efforts are limiting the gene pool of the species. They argue that the small number of animals able to breed in captivity limits biodiversity and leads to weaknesses in the species overall. Zoos are wonderful places to study and learn about animals, but we need to improve the living standards for animals that struggle with captivity.
Would they really have people glaring at them through glass? Would they really be allowing people to tap on the glass and scare the animals? Would there really be attractions based on them? Think about that next time you go to the zoo. While some may argue that they treat the animals and release them, how fair is that to the animal?
Supporters of zoos argue that they help to conserve endangered species, but in fact they are not very good at this. Even the world famous panda-breeding programme has been very costly and unsuccessful. 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.
Putting animals in zoos is harming them dramatically in the physical, mental, and emotional needs. Deciding that putting nature on display has only lessened mankind as a whole and has put a label that animals are not equal as humans are. As stated earlier “the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” Zoos are not used for the benefit of the animals they are rather used for the entertainment of the people. None of the animals signed up to be trapped for the rest of their lives and yet we view the world on the other side of the glass and the sadness within their souls can be seen as you look into the eyes of the victims trapped on
In the wild if an animal is sick or hurt they will most probably die, decreasing the animal population and increasing the chance of extinction for that animal. Animals are cared and treated for in a zoo, they are looked after until they are 100% better even then they are still very well looked after. You might be thinking “well it is natural for animals to die or who cares if just one animal dies”, well then think of it this way if you were hurt or sick you would like people to care