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    Animal Rights Violations

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    Animal Abuse in captivity concerning the conservation, attitude and post zoo on top of animal breeding in confinement. Animals that are put in containment such as zoos and safaris live in restraints in an environment designed for them. Now some may say this is a good thing, but some animals might not be able to cope with these kinds of environments and it could lead to poor animal welfare and suffering. Animals that are put in zoos are taken out of their natural habitat and inquired in a small confined

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    Animals: Not for Hire Like every other child, I would always feel so excited when my parents would bring me to the zoo and let me see how cute, gentle, and frightening different kinds of animals are. However, don’t you ever wonder how these animals see us? Stripped from their homes where they can be free and continue to do their roles, these animals are mistreated, depressed, driven to insanity, and are prone to sickness while in captivity. Wild animals who are kept in areas solely for the purpose

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    1. The family business of the Pondicherry Zoo in India The Pondicherry zoo provided Santosh Patel with many struggles, but it acted as “paradise on earth” (Martel 15) for Pi Patel. The opposite feelings experienced by father and son involving the zoo strongly relate to the world’s conflicting ideas regarding religion. For example, Pi believes there is freedom within zoos and openness within religion, while others believe that zoos are cruel because of their constriction and religion is restrictive

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    Taking a family trip to the zoo with the kids generally entails a day of bright grins and exotic entertainment. Children feast their beady eyes on the foreign animals showcased, in awe at their fascinating performances. Despite the exhilaration generated at these locations, people fail to realize the gruesome reality that occurs behind the scenes of zoo. Although animal captivity provides amusement and is said to be educational, it remains to be a cruel practice that should require stricter regulation

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    Cruel and Inhumane Treatment of Animals

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    trailers? Why are they exploited for human amusement? Unfortunately, some of these animals even lose their lives from incessant physical punishment and abuse. Animal suffering can be seen in many forms of entertainment including rodeos, circuses, and zoos. There are around eight hundred professional rodeos and a number of smaller ones in the United States each year (Francione 25). They involve a series of timed events using horses and other farm animals designed to challenge the skills of the contestants

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    species. Zoos are solely responsible for taking animals from their natural habitats and placing them in small enclosures where they are not able to live healthier and fulfilling lives that they were to live if not for being captured. Zoos are unable to provide proper habitats that replicate an animal's natural habitat, this can lead the animals to develop harmful diseases such as arthritis due improper climates that are fatal to certain animals, or even neurotic diseases caused by deprivation. Zoos are

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    though some argue that zoos are actually beneficial for animals, zoos in reality produce a toxic and cruel impact on species. When animals are confined in spaces for entertainment purposes, they are more likely to develop mental illnesses and strange behaviors. For instance, the term “zoochosis” was coined by Bill Travers in 1992 after witnessing abnormal behaviors such as pacing, head banging, self mutilation, regurgitating, and many more actions that animals displayed in zoos that were not found in

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    Experienced Animal Keeper and Trainer Josh Ruffell A wildlife expert who got his start as an animal keeper at Furry Friends Zoo in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, Josh Ruffell attended Salem State College (SSC) in Salem, Massachusetts, from 1996 to 1997. After completing general studies and biology coursework at SSC, he matriculated at Moorpark College in Moorpark, California, where he completed the Exotic Animal Training and Management Program with a focus on wildlife education and exotic animal training

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    Zoochosis Research Paper

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    “Daddy, Daddy! Can we go to the zoo?” Well that might be a bad idea because of these few reasons. First, the zoos often mistreat their animals. Second off, those wild animals have to stay in those barbaric cages every day.Last, people have recorded animals going crazy. So, let's look over those reasons more. Okay, this one is pretty bizarre so prepare yourself for “zoochosis”! If you don’t know what zoochosis is its when the animals in the zoo go crazy! This can be very serious. Side effects of

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    alone to get along with our own lives...we actually know how to do it much better than when you start interfering'" ( Jane Goodall). Wild animals have the right to live their lives their own way, rather than be manipulated by people. For many years, zoos, aquariums, circuses, and other entertainment places have kept wild animals in captivity and neglected them the ability to live a natural life in the way and place they should. They are wrongly used for the entertainment of human kind. Millions of

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