Zoos In Life Of Pi

Zootopia, from the largest to the smallest, from the vicious to the innocent, Zootopia is an infested mammal massacre where all animals thrive and live in harmony. The concept? A world without humans, where predators and prey have learned to interact and create a city featuring sections built to accommodate different animals and lifestyles. This Disney hit doesn’t disappoint when it comes to exploring deep, demon-like predicaments that come with proclaiming Zootopia as home. This one hit wonder displays an attention grabbing plot which aids the viewer to picture a brand new view point of the positive and negative impacts that stereotypes, discrimination and prejudice have on the characters in Zootopia. Stereotyping can be seen as a widely held image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Likewise, discrimination is to treat someone poorly due to their race, age or sex.

In this essay, the stories, “Zoo,” and “He-y, Come on Ou-t,” are compared by the unexpected twist and setting details. In a brief summary, the story “Zoo,” introduces us to Professor Hugo’s Interplanetary Zoo where creatures from many different planets are showcased around the world. On the other hand, “He-y, Come on Ou-t,” presents us with a mysterious hole founded after a disaterous event. Eventhough both stories may seem entirely different on the surface, if you look at them at a different perspective they will come out to be quite similar.

Even in the midst of a technological revolution, we try to preserve the natural greens and wildlife; be it parks, pets, or small house plants. The society today might regard a zoo for its famed wild animals standing high and mighty within the concrete jungle, but is that what truly happens in confinement as well?

Zoos present a certain blend of nature and culture. They have always provided a way to bring natural wildlife and urban Americans together as a means of entertainment. Yet, throughout the years the role of zoos have changed. Though once used for amusement, zoos are now being used for education on preservation and the welfare of endangered species. One may wonder where and how the idea of zoos started and just how they, and the environment around them, have changed throughout history.

The Zoo is ever child’s dream of seeing strange animals that they have never seen before, but this zoo is like no other. “It was kept with things he could hunt, and it really wasn’t like any animal sanctuary” (Goldman 60). The zoo of Death as the zoo is called is full of

Some people go to zoos to see the wild animals, but that’s not all that they are for. People in groups such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) may think that zoos cannot provide the needs to wild animals as the wild can. Zoos help animals. They have improved, helping to repopulate species and save animals in the wild.

In the past, there have been many reports of zoo accidents, to be specific; over 200 zoo accidents in the last 26 years have occurred. From my perspective zoos should be prohibited, taking innocent animals from the wild and holding them captive for display at zoos is cruel. There has been a bulk amount of controversy over the topic of zoo mishaps and whose fault is to blame for the occurrence. In all fairness, nobody should be blamed, but there should be a change or new regulations to guide zoos in a more prominent direction. Because in the end, if there is no difference in the zoo, then tragic events like this will continue to happen. There are various amounts of precautions that can be taken by zoo corporations to prevent zoo accidents;

Yann Martel offers two accounts of Pi’s survival story so that Pi is able to personify animals and also give animalistic qualities to humans. This exchange is only seen after both accounts are read. The reader is able to determine which he or she accepts as reality, but since the facts of the story go unchanged and both tales are primarily the same, the sole purpose is to highlight the traits humans and animals posses. Yann Martel exemplifies human traits in animals and animal traits in people through his claim in passage A by telling the two stories of Pi’s survival.

For many centuries, zoos have served as a way of both educating and entertaining various audiences around the world. However, many ethical and moral concerns have arisen recently regarding the manner in which the animals in these facilities are treated. Zoos disregard the rights of animals because the audiences and employees treat them poorly and animals are unable to thrive in the small enclosures. Journalist Michelle Carr is correct in her claim about the harsh reality of zoos. Even though authors Leslie Kaufman and John Pickrell are accurate when they claim that many zoos serve as educational and conservational institutions, this does not excuse the fact that zoos take advantage of animals in order to make money.

Pi advances this point to convey that animals are also creatures of customs. When animals first come across their new territory, in the wild or in a zoo, they ceremonially mark “it out in the normal ways of it’s species, with sprays of urine” (18). Once the animalistic ritual is complete, the being does not feel “like a prisoner, but rather like a landholder” (18). This simile, comparing zoo animals to landholders demonstrates Pi’s insight on the comfortableness animals actually experience in zoos. Pi carries on by saying that if animals possessed the intelligence to decide, they would choose the safe enclosures of the zoo over the wild because they are fed, kept comfortable and away from any

In the article The Future of Zoos, Justin Worland discusses the future of zoos so animals will be more comfortable in their environment. The Zoo360 is trying to change animals captivity by adding walkways/bridges for tigers. Animals are smarter and fell more than we knew and may suffer and may suffer when removed from their habitat in the wild. Coe developed a strategy to give animals natural vegetation, room to walk/roam, and big amounts of light. Hancocks has improved zoos a lot so that the animals are more comfortable in their environment.

This quote is spoken by Pi in Part One of the novel Life of Pi. Pi’s father Mr. Patel runs the Pondicherry Zoo and Pi is fascinated with the various animals as well as the various religions he sees people practice. Pi has witnessed many people talking negatively about zoos, especially the fact that the animals are thought to be caged and stripped of their freedom. Pi disagrees that animals that are kept in the zoos are trapped. Pi’s reasoning behind this is that animals who roam the wild are constantly hunting for food as there is a lack of food availability; they encounter fear of being hunted and they have to fight at times for their lives.

Most people think of small animals, such as sheep, as meek and submissive due to their frequent portrayal as innocent characters in children’s stories and folklore; in these same stories, antagonistic characters tend to be fiercer animals such as lions or wolves. However, the children’s movie Zootopia, in which all characters are mammals, shows that this is not always the case. The characters in this film break the stereotypes against them by being different or the opposite of what the audience expects based on their species or occupation within the film. For instance, Judy Hopps solves the case on the missing mammals and why they went savage despite being a “dumb bunny”, and Nick Wilde turns from a sly con artist to the first fox cop. This

Historically, there is not much known about the origins of zoos. Zoos can be traced from 3500 BC in Egypt and from there made their way through the rest of the civilized world. Back then zoos were designed not only for human entertainment but to show the wealth and beauty of a city and their ruler. The city who had the most zoos showed that ruler had wealth, and showed that the city had prosperity, because of zoos cities would thrive and what kept them thriving even through hardships. Additionally, in China zoos were considered to be the most peaceful place a person can visit, and even to some a place of worship. (“Zoos Bad for Animals”). Unfortunately, times are not the same since they were in 3500 BC. “More modern zoos in Europe and the United

Yann Martel’s visit to the Trivandrum Zoo helped to largely inspire the characters in his novel “Life of Pi.” Even Luke Harding agrees that the: “Trivandrum Zoo – one of India's oldest – provided much of the inspiration behind Yann Martel's extraordinary novel Life of Pi, which won the Booker prizelast week” (Harding). Some of the most important characters in “Life of Pi” come in the form of animals, and all of these animals can be found in this zoo except for the orangutan. Martel’s visit to the Trivandrum Zoo helped to give character to the animals as it helped to give Martel a perspective on the animals’ behavior, particularly the