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
Are zoos good or bad? For many animals zoos can be horrible like for an elephant named Maggie. Maggie would have been a happy elephant if she was let into the wild. One day it was too cold for Maggie to go outside so she had to be trapped in a small uncomfortable and cramped cage. Maggie wouldn’t even use the elephant sized treadmill that they had gave her. According to the article Zoos the Historical Debate “If Maggie and other zoo elephants lived in the wild, they would wander as much as 30 miles
In the film, Madagascar, zoos are depicted as a sanctuary in which all the exotic animals are kept safe and are open for the public to view. But many would argue that zoos are inhumane, the caging of animals for our personal entertainment is unjustifiable. Those who believe that zoos are wrong and should be destroyed are animal rights activist; they believe that animals should be allowed to choose their own destiny. Those that believe that zoos are an important part of our lives are scientist and
Should Animals be kept in zoos? Have you ever been to a zoo? If you have then you may or may not noticed how badly the animals are treated. Many zoos around the world are mistreating animals and the public has no idea about it. Zoos are very unfair to animals. Would you want to be stuck in a small area for your whole life when you could be roaming free in the wild somewhere? Probably not. Well, that is what happens to most animals in a zoo. It is completely unfair! Animals do not deserve to be in
interesting yet some never should be pets and belong in the zoo. There are two sides to this question some argue that people should be able to keep wild animals as pets or in captivity because it provides protection for the animals and zoos help educate visitors about animals but others say they shouldn’t be able to keep wild animals as pets or in captivity because of the wide spread of disease and because of untrained owners. People and organizations should be allowed to keep wild animals pets
Imagine walking through the zoo as a child, thinking how awesome it is to see all of those big interesting animals you would never get to encounter in the wild. Now think of walking through the zoo when you are older seeing these same animals in a very different light. Instead of seeing animals happily living their lives you see animals wandering aimlessly around their small enclosures looking bored to tears and depressed. Is it fair that we keep these animals cooped up specifically for our own entertainment
these animals must feel when zoo keepers come and take them out of the wild and away from their families. Animals are always taken out of the wild only to be taken back to the zoos and put in cages. Many people believe that zoos are a good thing, and that zoos actually do help out the endangered species and year some of that may be true but how would the we the people know. Zoos treat certain animals different depending on their cuteness or their age. Animals aren't allowed to learn what they would learn
if animals should be owned by humans. This mainly concerns zoos, private owners and other facilities that hold animals. The public saw this issue and wanted to address it. Big organizations such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) are the ones who are mainly active in this dilemma. The people who are also interested in this issue are those who fit into the category of any side of the argument. Other people and organizations, who are interested in this topic, are zoos or animal wildlife
Animal Rights: Zoos When it comes to the topic of whether or not it is ethical to keep animals in zoos, some of us would agree it is a debatable topic. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question if keeping animals enclosed in zoos is beneficial to them. Whereas some are convinced that zoos educate the public and benefit the animal’s lives, others maintain that zoos are cruel because of how most zookeepers take care of their animals and having them in captivity causes them to
Why are people agianst zoos? Are they harming the animals? Are the zoos helping animals? Through the journey of humans advancing in technology and industry, they have destroyed or changed many species of animals habitats. Although older zoos don’t provide the best living conditions, some animals do belong in more modern zoos because it can help their species out of endangerment, it allows scientist to study them, and the life span is longer in zoos rather than in the wild. Animals who’s species