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Attention Getter: Are you looking for the perfect place to go with your family and friends to have fun? If so, could you imagine that place being worth the time and money? What if it was really close to where you are currently?
Thesis Statement: From airplanes to an amusement park, the Air Zoo is known nationwide for creating truly immersive experiences for people of all ages.
Importance of Topic: Being a college student can often be a fatiguing experience at times and that’s why the Kalamazoo Air Zoo is a great place where you can relieve everyday stresses. I’m astounded by what I have seen when visiting the unique atmosphere of the Air Zoo and have been intrigued by what I have learned while researching online. IV. Preview
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Expansion of the museum progressed in 1994 with the movement of restoration center and aircraft to a larger building.
Transition: Now that we’ve discussed some history about the Air Zoo, let’s talk about more additions made in the 2000’s.
III. There have since been many additions made to the museum in recent years.
According to Terry Turner from The Sioux City Journal, in 2004, “the Air Zoo opened a new 120,000 square-foot facility containing 360-degree full-motion flight simulators, a 4D theater, indoor amusement park rides, a 3D space shuttle ride to the International Space Station, traveling exhibits from the Smithsonian Institution and, surrounding the display area, an indoor mural.”
And in 2011, they kept popping out new and impressive exhibits containing a new Century of Flight Ferris Wheel, a golf course, a Paratrooper Jump and also the flight simulation Corsair Challenge, according to Crystal Vander Weit of MLive.com.
There are many other exciting things to do in the Air Zoo like just relaxing and eating with your company, observing the museum, or having a great time with the simulations.
People think that animals want to be in zoos, but they really do not. In some zoos the owners or zookeepers see how the environment is making the animals feel bad or good and they try to change it by giving the animals a similar habitat to where they came from. All three stories “The Stripes Will Survive”, “The Zoos Go Wild”, and “Our Beautiful Macaws and Why They Need Enrichment” deal with protecting animals but they all do so in different ways.
Another stress-causing factor is taking zoo animals from their families and moving them to different enclosures of even different zoos altogether. Similar to circuses, zoos are home to many potentially dangerous animals that could cause a lot of harm if they escaped or fly off the handle. At the San Francisco Zoo, one tigress is responsible for the death of a 17-year-old boy and seriously injuring two brothers after escaping from her enclosure (“Man Killed by Tiger”). Zoos are home to about 6,126 different species and all 6,126 species belong in the wild where they thrive and life a life of freedom
This requires sturdy materials and extensive planning. Zoo staff, zookeepers, tour guides, curators and exhibit organizers etc... essential for running and maintaining happy guests of both the animal and humanoid persuasion. Imagine going to the zoo and not peering through fence slots or windows to see confined wildlife, but instead being immersed in a seemingly untouched and wild habitat. Architect Bjarke Ingels runs the architectural firm, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and is currently trying to design a revolutionary Zoo for the Givskud Zoo and Safari Park in Denmark.Ingels recently spoke with National Public Radio about the project, telling reporter Arun Rath that his ultimate goal and greatest challenge is to make a zoo that can create a "successful cohabitation between humans and different species of animals." This cageless Zoo concept would give park goers the capability of sharing experiences with the animals, almost as if they were on a Safari.
The El Paso Zoo is a well-known for making everyone’s arrival one to remember. Each time I would go to the zoo, I always leave with a smile on my face because of the great service they bring towards El Paso. The reason why I decided to write about the zoo is because I was once a worker there. It is marvelous seeing all of those magnificent animals. They must be at least twenty different types of species we have in El Paso. Which is totally awesome.
The exhibits are also very fascinating, and after going to the zoo you can catch a glimpse of a certain animal's way of life. Without zoos we wouldn't have the unbelievable experience of seeing Earth's most beautiful life forms. Zoos keep endangered species safe, and out of harms way. We need to start caring about the life forms on this planet. Showing each animal compassion, and love. My knowledge on zoos has been stretched after my reading analysis today. Based off of the articles, "The Stripes Will Survive", "The Zoos Go Wild", and "Our Beautiful Macaws and Why They Need Enrichment", we can truly get in-depth analysis about the role zoo's
Zoos have changed and found a balance between being an attraction and conservation park. Some people think zoos should protect animals to the best of their ability. For example, some zoos have upgraded animals’ living spaces so that they feel comfortable. Overall, the role of zoos is to protect animals by providing them with their basic needs, making sure they have a suitable place to live, and to save them from extinction!
As the animal rights movement has developed and grown substantially in recent years, there has been an increased focused on the welfare of captive animals. A popular institution that has received much attention for keeping animals captive is the zoo. Because of this focus, zoos have responded by publicizing their positive benefits for existence in order to justify keeping these animals on display. Since the term “zoo” can have a wide variety of meaning and characteristics, it is important to define what constitutes a zoo in this essay. Zoos are defined as a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public, and
The zoo is a zoo for a reason. Going to the zoo is a fun time created to spend quality time with your family, friends, co-workers, and etc.
Zoos have become a very visited place over a person’s lifetime, whether it be for an educational school field trip or for a day of fun. It’s a wonderful experience to be able to see animals up close in a controlled environment, keeping visitors safe from these animals, however do visitors think of what the animals are going through? Zoos are not providing enough space for captivated animals to live causing numerous problems not only involving the animals, but some visitors as well. Zoos should not be allowed to hold animals in captivity unless they significantly increase the size of each cage (change cage into something else).
Zoos are many things. It can be a place for family fun and a good place to visit over the weekend, yet there are so many things going on inside zoos that the public fails to notice. For example, the article “10 Facts about Zoos” by CAPS discusses the lack of enclosure space and states, “Tigers and lions have around 18,000 times less space in zoos than they would in the wild. Polar bears have one million times less space.” This reveals that animals in zoos are placed in enclosures that are way too small for them and not even remotely close to what they experience in the wild. “Elephants are used to roaming miles upon miles a day in large groups, yet in zoos they
They are life savers, and that?s what people don?t realize. When people find a sick animal they call for help. Usually a zoo that has the stuff to fix and take care of the animal will be called. They will go and help the animal as quickly as possible (Miller). Zoos are the best thing to keep animals alive and also from going extinct (Morris). There are also different ways that zoos are changing. Zoos have gotten very good at habitual restoration (Sunquist). They know how to make the animals comfortable. They study what the animals likes. They look at their normal habitat in the wild and they can bring it to the zoos. For the bigger animals, they have bigger cages. For the aquatic animals they have water. They also have cages that look like the wild. They have real trees and things the animals can play with. The animals think that it is their natural habitat. Some states are even making cramped cages against the law (Mendoza). The bigger change that is happening is that some zoos are sponsoring conservation programs in the wild, so the animals is extremely comfortable where they are and people can still visit them. They say this will be very popular in the future (Sunquist). In my opinion, this seems very cool and different. I think other people will like it. The zoos are trying to connect with the animals. Rob Vernon, the AZA?s communication coordinator states, ?The fastest and most direct way for people to save and care about endangered species is to connect with them?
Author Vernon Kisling, of Zoo and aquarium history: ancient animal collections to zoological gardens makes a great statement: “Cultural institutions, such as zoos, change like the cultures that foster them” (Kisling 163). For modern zoos, they were said to have begun in London in the 1820s with London’s Regent Park Zoo (Graetz). These modern zoos, as well as those in Germany, began to take the place of royal menageries and set examples for the American culture. The first zoo to be built in America was established in Philadelphia in 1874 (Philadelphia zoo). During the time that America was transitioning from an agricultural nation to an industrial one.
I was also a little shocked that not a single person said that they think zoos should be abolished. These high numbers have really helped me because it has made it easy for me to see that my target audience needs to be audience members who zoos and are pleased with them. I’m going to tailor my speech to this population and get them to understand that zoos are not beneficial to the animals that they keep captive. I’m going to have to focus on how bad zoos are. I need to find shocking behaviors that zoo animals exhibit to present to the class. If I take a strong stance against this issue and use strong evidence that really shows that zoos are bad for the animals, I think I will be able to persuade my target audience to want to have zoos abolished like I
THESIS: Within the 10,000 zoos in America, hundred, 214 to be exact, have and continue to gain accreditation to become a public animal advocacy to protect and maintain animal species for years to come and through their efforts, they can better educate the civilians who enjoy visiting such attractions.
Since approximately 1250 B.C., ancient Egyptians had created and practiced the capture and display of animals in what are now known as zoos (Fravel). Records describe such exotic animals as birds, lions, giraffes, and tigers in captivity (Fravel). Since then, zoos have continued to entertain millions with the exciting chance to view exotic animals up close and personal. Even in ancient Greece, exotic animals were on display in fighting arenas, and in enclosed viewing areas. Originally in America, zoos were just created so that royalty and the wealthy could flaunt their exotic animals to the public (Leolupus). Today, with species threatened and habitats disappearing worldwide, zoos are serving a new purpose other than the mere exhibition of