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Informative Essay: The Role Of Animals In Captivity

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“Animals in captivity are affected by extreme boredom, lack of appropriate exercise, poor quality food and a lack of variety of food, especially in poorly run facilities” (Education Reform, Choo). Imagine you got ripped out of your home and put in a small cage with no interaction with other animals and terrible food. You have no idea what's going on and what's going to happen to you, that's was animal's face everyday in captivity. Animals in captivity are abandoned and not fed the right foods, they do not get treated right and get pulled out of there families just to be put in a small cage. Studies show that animals in captivity have a shorter life span and they are more likely to get depressed when they are taken away from their families. Captive animals don’t get nearly the right amount of exercise and …show more content…

Being placed in small cages makes the animal get anxiety and this can cause the animals to hurt themselves or even other animals. Studies have shown that animals have up to thousands or millions times less space than they would in the wild, and animals are crammed into these small spaces with little to no room to move around (Caps.org). Being put in these small spaces, forces the animals to lack exercise and interaction with the outside world. Animals have very big emotional issues because of how they are treated, since they lack exercise they get bored in the cages and sometimes develop depression. Depression can cause animals to endanger themselves and other animals because they get anxious and cause danger. Some species of captive animals spend almost 50% of their time pacing or having behavioral issues (CaptiveAnimals.org). Such as pacing, over-grooming, self mutilation, repetitive movement of the jaw, which can cause pain, and scratching (OneGreenPlanet.org). All these symptoms are caused by lack of interaction with other animals and

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