Imprison Animals, No!
Animals deserve to be free to do what they want not to be imprisoned by keepers to be put on display. Animals are safe in zoos for a little until they start to go crazy from being locked in a cage like they have done something wrong. Even though putting animals in zoos can help prevent extinction, animals deserve to be free because when they are placed in zoos they forget how to use their natural instincts and survival skills, some animals are forced to mate with the animal the keeper chose instead of them picking on their own, and lastly zoos are like a prison for animals.
One reason animals deserve to be free is, when they are placed in zoos they forget how to use their natural instincts and survival skills. According to “ The Impact of Animal Protection”, protecting animals in a controlled environment is not always the best plan. When animals are in these environments, they are isolated from other animals, therefore their ability to hunt and their natural diet is limited. Also their amount of space to roam free has decreased by a lot. Yes, keeping animals has proven to be beneficial and has increased the populations of many endangered animals, but it’s not fair to the animals when they are used to lots of free space to roam, hunting for their own food, and eating on their own schedule. In
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The article “ The Impact of Animal Protection” says, putting animals in controlled environments, the animals can live safely and their numbers can increase through supervised breeding. However, in the zoo’s animals many times cannot choose who they mate with as they would in the wild. Yes , it helps increase their number and how long they will be around on earth, but they deserve to be free and choose who they would like to mate with. Sometimes when forced to mate with a certain animals the male and female fail at having
Considering the many challenges animals face in the wild, it is understandable that people may be eager to support zoos and may feel that they are protective facilities necessary for animal life. In the article “ Zoos Are Not Prisons. They Improve the Lives of Animals”, Author Robin Ganzert argues that Zoos are ethical institutions that enrich the lives of animals and ultimately protect them. Statistics have shown that animals held in captivity have limited utilitarian function resulting in cramped quarters, poor diets, depression, and early death for the animals thus, proving that Zoos are not ethical institutions that support and better the lives of animals as author Robin Ganzert stated (Cokal 491). Ganzert exposes the false premise in stating
middle of paper ... ... Freedom is precious and animals are constantly suffering mentally and physically from the lack of freedom that captivity brings to them. Although many zoos are visited by millions of people annually, they still operate at a loss and have to make budget cuts. Funds that should be used to provide humane conditions for animals are often wasted on cosmetic improvements such as landscaping, refreshment stands, and gift shops in order to draw visitors, leaving the animals behind steel bars and glass trapped in a concrete jungle for no reason without hope of ever being free.
Also an animal's wild habitat wins out over captivity. Finally, zoos are teaching kids that it is perfectly fine to lock up animals for our gratification. My first reason for animals to be let out of zoos is, animals held captive in zoos often die very young. According to the article by Captive Animals Protection Society [CAPS] states the following,"40% of lion cubs die before one month of age, in the wild only 30% of cubs are thought to die before they are six months old.
I think that animals shouldn’t be in zoos because they need more space to run, swim, fly, climb, and roam. Animals need to know how to protect themselves from predators and hunters. If animals stay in zoos and then get released after a while they won’t know how to protect themselves from predators and hunters. They also need to know how to find food on their own or they will die cause they won’t know how to find food for themselves. Some animals are not meant to be kept in cages they need to roam around.
First of all, zoos should keep animals in captivity, because if they are running wild around the animal park, they could cause all kinds of catastrophes, and they also could injure or possibly attack a visitor or park keeper. If the wild animals are running around on the loose, instead of being held in captivity, then they could possibly get injured, or in the worst case scenario, get lost. They could climb into the other animal cages, and possibly get into a fight with the other animals. If the animals are all in separate cages, then it decreases the risk of them getting in to a fight with the other animals. Also, zoos should keep wild animals in captivity, so that the children can be taught about the value of animals so that they understand the importance of them being looked after during their visit.
Whether it's for experimentation, research, or amusement, throughout the years there have been many reasons to keep animals captive. Zoos take animals captive in order to conserve endangered species but research has revealed that many of the animals confined in zoos are not threatened species. Most of the species in zoos are, as a matter of fact, marketable and familiar animals rather than endangered species (Keulartz, 340). Jeopardized species or not, animal captivity has had many negative effects on the captive animals such as their physiological behavior. On the other hand, zoos retain animals in cramped living conditions and are mostly maintained for human amusement.
Modern zoos today however, provide great recreation for animals. According to the Guardian, safe and can be bred up to provide foundation populations. A good number of species only exist in captivity and still more only exist in the wild because they have been reintroduced from zoos, or the wild populations have been boosted by captive bred animals. Zoos protect endangered animals from extinction by enclosing them in zoos, producing more of them and then setting them
Zoos provide a great educational experience. On the other hand, zoos help protect animal species through breeding programs. For instance, if a species is on the verge of extinction, zoos can easily solve this problem. Zoos are able to fix this problem by putting these animals in breeding programs.
Although zoos seem like they are only for entertainment, behind the scenes they are breeding animals to be released back into the wild. This process of species reproduction in a controlled
Zoo animals are abused, not cared for properly and have much smaller lifespans in the zoos, so why are we keeping them in zoos if they aren’t conserving biodiversity? Animals are usually born in the wild unless they are bred in captivity. When animals are born in captivity and then released a certain amount of years later, they are more vulnerable as they don’t know how to hunt or find food depending on their diet. This means that they are more likely to have no defense
It is evitable that the most of the top leaders in the areas of politics, law, and economics are male, and the art world is no exception. Even though more and more female are taking up positions of power in various fields, yet the art scene is still massively dominated by men. If you are asked to name one female artist, the response is likely to be limited compared to a question about male artist since there have been a lot of legendary male artists throughout the history. The next question seems to follow naturally: Have there been not much great women artists?
Zoos are an unsuitable environment for wild animals and should, therefore, be abolished. Firstly, zoo animals are kept in a very confined area compared with their vast natural habitat. Secondly, breeding programmes are far less successful than zoos claim. Thirdly, zoo animals are exposed to many diseases and other dangers.
Standing to hear talking from an animal's right activist perspective, I strongly disagree zoos are the right place for animals. However, as an animal rights activist, I need to consider the benefits these species will gain from living in a zoo and what they will not gain from living in a zoo. These animals living in the zoos do not starve beach use they have food and water supply all the time by the zookeepers. Moreover, animals are safe. People do not kill them.
One lauded justification for keeping wild animals in zoos is to make sure that whenever the species becomes extinct in the wild, the zoo will release their captive bred animals back into the biodiversity of the wild (Kolbert 137). Zoos often make grandiose claims that they are all for conserving the wildlife (. But in fact, they are separating possible mates and reducing the size of the population. One would also think that the number of endangered animal species in the world would have gone down due to the zoo efforts. However in a recent study done by International Union for Conservation of Nature, 2599 animals are considered endangered in 2012 compared with 1998 levels of 890 (“Summary
¨To wit, dozens of zoos across North America participate in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA’s) Species Survival Plan (SSP) Program, which aims to manage the breeding of specific endangered species in order to help maintain healthy and self-sustaining populations that are both genetically diverse and demographically stable.¨ said Scientific American, Kelly Traw. In other words, there are programs all over the country to help certain species from becoming extinct. SSP and other related programs have helped bring black-footed ferrets, California condors, red wolves and other endangered species back from the brink of extinction over the last three decades. It is understandable why the opposition argues that zoos should be shut down because, sadly to say that some zoos do abuse their animals.