Zoo

How would you react if you were caged and taken somewhere where you don’t belong only to be looked at by the savages that trapped you? This is a situation that many animals are being put into everyday as zoos take them out of their natural habitats to be enjoyed by the public. Zoos are very cruel to animals because they cause a loss of habitat, and give them unsuitable enclosures. Zoos also make the animal used to the city life so when (and if) they are released into the wild they will not be able to survive. Zoos also give the animal many cruel diseases and disorders due to overall unsuitability. It is important for the reader to know that zoos are very cruel to animals because if they don’t then they will simply keep going to zoos and enjoying the undercover abusing of animals.

When animals are caged and put in zoos they are suffering from loss of habitat along with unsuitable enclosures for our enjoyment. Animals in their natural habitats get more space to graze. In zoos that space is reduced to about a ratio of 1:509000 which is a huge difference. Also, in zoo Enclosures the animals will only use about 1/12 of their enclosure and pace in that space; this is caused when the animals are subjected to instant change in habitat size. Climate change is also a major aspect once it comes to the suitability of zoo enclosures because if an animal is subjected to an unsuitable climate, the animal is likely to live less as well as have behavioral problems. Some zoos change the climate inside the enclosures but cities with low incomes don’t even bother to change the climate to help out the animals. Loss of biodiversity is another issue when it comes to zoo enclosures. In zoos the animals are usually separated from each other in order t...

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...e expectancy of an American compared to a Chinese citizen the Chinese guy will live longer. Same as to a captive gorilla and a wild gorilla, the life of the wild gorilla will surely out pass the captives’ due to being more fit. The cruelty which these animals are subjected to causes them to die or go insane.

As you know, it is important not to support zoos because they are a major factor in animal cruelty. They provide the animals with unsuitable living conditions. They turn the animals into domestic human dependent creatures. They also lower the animal’s life expectancies due to unsuitable conditions. If we all choose to go to zoos, than wildlife will soon be abolished. The worlds would be a place that contains just humans and that can lead to a tragic ending in the world as we know it.

Works Cited

http://www.captiveanimals.org/news/2010/03/10-facts-about-zoos