Should Animals Be In Zoos?

while visiting the zoo a few years ago, i realized how unfair zoos are to the animals. The animals are incased and treated badly by the zoo keepers. In the zoo, I've seen animals being thrown around like they're nothing. why would we want those situations to keep happening to our animals? I believe that zoos should be closed due to unfair treatment.

Zoos across the world claim to be safe, suitable homes that replicate habitats of animals that are usually found in the wild. However, there is no possible way for wild habitats to be replicated well enough for animals in captivity to thrive, animals are often separated and withheld from living as they would in the wild. Despite their argument of being educational for visitors, the only thing they are teaching the public is that it is ok to take animals out of the wild and lock them up for their own enjoyment. Regardless of these claims, zoos are inhumane.

Animals are deprived of their natural habitat when transferred from the wild open space of the wild only to be fenced inside a limited habitat. Peta.org explains “Elephants typically walk up to 30 miles in just one day, but Lucy, the lone elephant at the Edmonton Zoo, is locked inside a barn… spends most of her time indoors…”. This doesn’t only apply to elephants, but to many other animals. Preventing them from thriving, because of the limited space provided per animal. Additionally, this leads to health problems because of the restricted amount of movement, health problems like arthritis. However zoos are not only causing physical harm, but mentally making animals sick causing many cases of depression. Trapping animals in cages stressed them out and can make them unhappy taking matters into their own hands trying to kill themselves according to

As claimed in the LCA article, ”Animals in zoos are forced to live in artificial, stressful, and downright boring conditions”(User, Super). Evidence shows time to time that animals are being affected by zoos. There are many things hidden behind the facilities, that many people do not know about. The animals are being held in conditions that no animal should ever live in. Even though some zoos do focus on helping the animals, they are not as beneficial to the animal because they are not provided with the proper care and attention they need and zoos do not try to fix their problems.

Zoos may seem fun to visit and exciting to see the animals; but what you don’t see is the suffering and depression that lies in these helpless creatures. There are many arguments whether or not zoos are good or bad, and if they should be removed or kept. Several think that zoos should be abolished or at least very much improved, due to animal cruelty. While, others want zoos to stay because it is beneficial for the animals and people. I strongly believe that zoos aren’t good for both the public and animals for numerous reasons.

There have been a lot of problems with animals in zoos. It has gotten to the point where zoos are hated and looked upon as a places of animal torture. Are zoos really that bad? Turns out, they are. They do not have enough space, they do not allow the animals to communicate with each other, and they sell the animals to cruel circuses.

People suffer from stress and feel horrible well animals in captivity suffer from stress. Animals are aware to feel things such as boredom and imprisonment. Animals should not be captured nor confined. First of all, animals should be free from zoos because they are stuck in small so-call habitats and could eventually become violent to the public. Animals just don't become violent to the public but they could have strange behaviours such as pacing, rocking, or even self harm in the form of hair pulling, self biting and feather plucking. Also, animals in aquariums and marine parks should be free because they are enclosed in cramped small tanks.Tilikum was a healthy orca before he was captured in Iceland and taken to Florida Sea World. His fin was collapsed because of unnatural environment unfortunately Tilikum was announced dead on January 6, 2017 due to a lung infection of bacterial pneumonia. In addition, circus animals are forced to perform difficult tricks when they should be free. Bears have to balance on balls and elephants standing on two legs are not natural for animals. During circus acts if the animals don't perform the tricks they will whip, muzzle, electric pods, and bullhooks them as a reminder. Imprisoning animals for the public entertainment is not okay. Animals have the right to be free from zoos, aquariums, and circuses.

I love zoos, I could spend hours in the zoo because of all the cute animals in there, but do you really think that zoos are suitable for our animals? Are we hurting them or making them secure? It’s really tough to decide because we really don’t know what’s right or wrong for our animals. In my opinion, it could go either way. I am looking at both sides of arguments, debates and articles to really know if zoos are right or wrong.

Most people go to zoos with the expectation of a happy family and enjoying a day staring at wild animals that we do not see very often except of a screen. They see zoos as a place to experience something different and to take their children to. However, few people know of the mistreatment and unfit conditions the animals are forced into. On the contrary to popular belief, there are many zoos that care so little for the health of the animals the zoos are actually the reason the animals become ill. For the truth is that animals in zoos are mistreated, neglected, and even abused because of the awful situations they are in. In this essay, then, we will go over the excruciating conditions and the abuse these animals face everyday of their lives

Zoos and aquariums neglect proper care and treatment for animals. In the article, Mauling, Escapes and Abuse: six small zoos, 80 sick or dead animals, Over the past decade, more than 80 animals have died, been injured or become ill because of neglect at the zoos, and more than 200 others were kept in inhumane conditions, according to hundreds of pages of federal inspection reports, interviews with keepers and court documents (Jouvenal 1). This clarifies that because six small zoos neglect proper care and treatment for animals, there are now dozens dead, injured, or kept in inhuman conditions.. The article also states, “ That keepers with no experience or little experience were asked to care for sick animals and even manage birth,”(Jovenal 2).

The zoo is packed with children, running everywhere. They laugh and smile as they watch the animals at the zoo sleep. What these children do not realize is that these animals are dying on the inside. Animals that live at the zoo are extremely depressed. These animals can suffer severe psychological disorders from being out of their natural environment. But others argue that keeping these animals in captivity will help keep endangered species alive. However, the disadvantages of keeping animals in captivity are becoming more and more serious, and more people are beginning to believe that animals should not be held captive. Animals should not be kept in captivity because of the negative impact it can have

Zoos in FL are mistreating animals by puting them in display, captivity, and the animals don't have what they need to survive. In source 1

Not only do zoos cause physical damage to animals, but also, they cause mental and emotional issues in wild animals. After all animals do display signs of consciousness, so they do have feelings about being locked up in displays and cages around the clock. Recently, a group of animal researchers signed a declaration proclaiming that animals are self-aware. Alex Halberstadt’s article called “Zoo Animals and Their Discontent” stated, “The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in Human and Nonhuman Animals --- was signed by a group of leading animal researchers in the presences of Stephen Hawking. It asserted that mammals, birds, and other creatures like octopuses possess consciousness, and in all likelihood, emotions and self-awareness.” Several animals remember and feel emotion, so leaving them in a box all day seems slightly torturous. Humans should have empathy for the contained animals. “It turns out common shore crabs feel and remember pain, zebra flinches experience REM sleep, fruit-fly brothers cooperate, dolphins and elephants recognize themselves in mirrors, chimpanzees assist one another without expecting favors in return, and dogs really do feel elation in their owner’s presence” (Halberstadt). These feelings sometimes have some dangerous effects, as animals can and do act out against their aggressors.

Imagine yourself just chilling around in the wild, the only place you are familiar with, and the next thing you know, you get taken and put inside a small enclosure which becomes your home. Well, that is what animals who are taken out of the wild and mostly put inside a zoo feel like. Animals can receive serious health issues when kept in a zoo, most of the times not treated properly and used for entertainment rather than educational purposes. I believe that this is an urgent issue and I think that it is essential for wild animals to stay in the wild and not kept in enclosures.

These animals can't survive in zoos forever, their being taken away from their real habitats. They’re being used for money, entertainment, and publicity. Zoos shouldn’t exist because they’re harmful and not safe for the animals, they use them like they’re in the circus and for advantage, and they use them for their own lives.