Zoochosis And Pandatory Research

One of the most fun, visually amazing functions to visit are zoo's. Growing up as a kid going to the zoo was so much fun and basically guaranteed a great day out. People have been complaining and questioning the role of zoo's for a long time now. Some claim that it actually kills the animals off faster. Others claim that zoo's actually help protect and preserve the lives of these animals. Only one can make a reasonable argument by studying sources, and finding out statistics. 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 play.

Zoos have always been criticized because some claim that animals are being abused and mistreated due to the lack and care of certain zoos. However, zoos actually help many animals with research and are critically important for conservation purposes. People need to understand that zoos have programs that breed endangered animals as well as rescue programs for exotic animals that people are no longer able to support. Also, they have many hands on activities that allow people to get more connected to animals. In addition, zoos do not only focus on animals. They focus on environmental problems/concerns as well. Zoos help us stay educated about environmental impacts and animal care.

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.

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

Some people may argue that zoos are good for sick or injured animals; however, while they can help nurture babies and bring sick creatures back to health, they are not safe for healthy animals. Dr. Lesley Dickey estimates that every year about 3,000 to 5,000 animals are ‘management euthanized’ in European zoos (Barnes). This means that zoos put down animals if there is not enough space for them. This is called zoo culling. Some zoos even dissect animals in front of guests that they killed. Zoos are for caring for animals, there is no place for cruelty. Although most zoos don’t kill surplus animals, that doesn’t make them innocent. Some animals don’t live as long in zoos as they do in the wild. The median life span in European zoos for African

When people think of a zoo what pops into their minds? They probably imagine a fun, educational place where kids can learn about happy little animals from watching them in enclosures. What comes to mind when I think of a zoo, however, is the opposite. I picture severely depressed and overly stressed animals trapped in cages too small to mimic their natural environment. The effects of housing animals in zoos can be detrimental to the animal’s health, increasing the probability of stress-induced diseases and stereotypic behavior, especially in Asian and Africans elephants.

In the ‘first places zoos don’t take care of the animals. There have been mess-ups in zoo that killed animals. In Chicago killed a malfunction that killed 13 stingray. They had to shut down shunts the stingray die lower lighting less aggressive animals noise level can cause stress.

Animals that are held in captivity for the majority of their life will never get to experience the outside world in which they should rightfully be living in. These animals are held in cages or sanctuaries that are not sustainable for the living conditions in which they would have outside of the zoo. By living in such a small environment, animals experience a condition called “zoochosis.” This condition causes an animal to experience “bar biting, coprophagia, self-mutilation, circling, rocking, sawing, pacing, rolling, twisting, nodding of

responsible in creating. A common case amongst zoo animals is that of anxiety. This can be due to several factors in the zoo environment. This includes animals strict diet, the constant attention from zoo goers, lack of companions, and loss of freedom. The animals may be unaware to how they have ended up in their situation, but their instincts know something isn’t right. There have also been cases of depression with zoo animals. Most cases of depression are due to lack of companions or a loss of a companion, if a zoo animal is surrounded by a companion and the companion passes the behavior of the animal changes. For example, in NY Times article Zoo Animals and their Discontent by Alex Halberdtadt he mentions a male gibbon who struggled psychologically, displaying behavior qualities after the passing of his companion,” He ate less, moved less and sometimes refused to go on exhibit.” (paragraph 25 line 9-10). Behaviorist Virga believed the cause to be grief, which happened to last for a quarter of the year. The psychological effect physically caused the animal harm regarding its health. In the wild gibbons live a life with several companions so when one dies, the loss isn’t as tragic or mentally straining on the animal. This affliction zoos have on its animals is correlated to captivity in general.

Marine Park Under Fire After Video Shows Captive Orca Banging Its Head Against A Gate, Giraffe’s Death by Zoo Prompts Investigation,Crocodile stoned to death in horrific attack at Tunisian zoo. These alarming captions are only a few of the many similar headlines that have been stamped across the top news in the United States over the past two years. The issue of stereotypic behavior in captive animals include physical, emotional, and psychological medical conditions that have the potential to afflict an astounding number of zoo animals. This stereotypic behavior is an obvious sign that animals in captivity are neither happy nor mentally stable. Although paying a visit

Animals held in captivity are affected by the environment they are in. Most animals are kept in a much smaller amount than their natural habit because zoos cannot provide enough space for the animal (“10 Facts about Zoo”). The Captive Animals’ Protection Society says, “Tigers and lions have around 18,000 times less space in zoos than they

When you go to a zoo, you are usually full of excitement, happiness and eagerness to look at your favorite animals, especially if you’re a child or it’s your first time. But when you go to a zoo, do you ever think of the what the animals are going through, or see an animal acting out of the ordinary? This isn’t something people like to think of, but it’s all too real. Animals that are kept in zoos behave a lot differently than they normally do in the wild. They show signs of stress and worry such excessive pacing, itching, or even them pulling their own hair out. Wild animals that are in zoos aren’t meant to be there, and usually die a lot faster in zoos than in the wild because of the cost effective practices that they do to keep the places running. If we put the wellbeing of animals first, we as humans can begin treating the captive animals like they deserve. Zoos keeping animals contained in small areas is wrong, expect in marginally small circumstances, and some possible solutions would be to implement stricter regulations, or to mimic their natural environments to the most possible extent.

Zoos have made an appearance in almost all of our lives at some point. These wildlife parks are seen as a form of entertainment where visitors pay to see all of the beautiful animals roam around their small, individual habitats, and study their every move. We as humans are oblivious to the fact that these animals kept in small enclosures are nowhere near as happy as the people watching them from the outside. According to a survey taken by the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (2011), in collaboration with national and regional zoo associations, “annually more than 700 million people visit zoos and aquariums worldwide”. Although zoos today involve a more humane treatment of animals than zoos in the past, they still deny animals their basic rights. Behind the walls of these cages are hidden acts of

     If you have ever stepped into a zoo, you have stepped into a prison in which the inmates are defenseless and innocent, the sentence is long, and the penalty is cruel and severe. Zoos are not made for educational purposes but for entertainment, they do not benefit animals but push them toward extinction. "Zoos range in size and quality from cage-less parks to small roadside menageries with concrete slabs and iron bars." (Zoos: Pitiful Prisons.) The larger the zoo and the greater the number and variety of the animals it contains, the more it costs to provide quality care for the animals. Although more than 112 million people visit zoos in the U.S. and Canada every year,

Because of increasing environmental impacts from human activities, a growing number of captive breeding programs are being initiated to salvage endangered species and/or populations from extinction (IUCN 199; Seddon et al., 2007). Historically, many of these programs have been met with considerable difficulty (Philippart, 1995, Snyder et al., 1996; Frankham, 2008). There are some basic provisions that are common to all including aspects of animal such as animal accommodation and facilities; special needs of particular species, animal welfare and nutrition, veterinary attention and facilities, hygiene, emergency procedures, staff training and facilities (Macdonald and Charlton, 2000). But lives of animals in nowadays zoos are being endangered as these basic