Persuasive Essay Zoos

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An intruder enters someone’s house, the intruder kidnaps them, rips them from their family and jails them for life. Zoos should be banned because they do not have the right to kidnap the animals and jail them for life even if they are endangered. Stealing the animals from their home for our entertainment, shameful. The crazy thing is we are so entertained by it so much they make $175 million a year (1). The animals and people are equal none have less of an importance we are both living beings. The animals feel the pain inflicted on them too. Animals are mistreated in zoos by being locked up in small enclosures. What happens to them when a natural disaster occurs? Some animals may get loose during a disaster. Wild animals on the street to harm us, people think that’s never going to happen well it did. June 14, 2015, a flood occurred in Tbilisi, Georgia. Not one or five animals got loose but over 30 animals. People think they are cute and cuddly right, no there was a hippo, seven bears, six lions, a jaguar, …show more content…

Food, they are supposed to hunt for it but nope it is given, shelter given and they have no ability to flee from predators (5). They eat and they move in their small enclosure. Just like couch potatoes, this is bad for humans then this has to be bad for the animals. The animals can possibly die from obesity and on the other hand, some zoos starve the animals. Like, when Yemen was fighting a civil war they abandoned their 281 animals. Including twenty lions, twenty-six leopards, crocodiles, monkeys, birds of prey and many other diverse animals. Seventeen animals starved to death including eleven tigers and six rare endangered Arabian leopards. One leopard ate his dead mate. A lion had a bone-deep wound having his bone protrude. The government did not back it up either because it was in active war territories. It is pretty cool how some animal lovers helped out the animals till the war ended

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