Animals Should Not Be Kept In Zoos Essay

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    Zoos Should Be Banned

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    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

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    Guadalupe Wild Animals

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    WILD ANIMALS by guadalupe First this is why animals should not be kept in the zoo. They need their fresh air so they could breath. They could be with their other buddies and have fun. people say they animals get upset when people are around them. Polar bears are suffering in the zoo. All the animals are suffering in the zoo. They could pass away without their friends or their family. Some animals could get sick. They could get lonely and depressed. They could eat

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    Why Are Zoos Inhumane

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    Millions of people visit zoos each year and get to see animals they wouldn’t see anywhere else. Zoos are totally not inhumane. They are this way because, this allows them to be taken care of a whole lot better. When the animals get sick, the workers at the zoo can help them out and not let them die. Another reason why zoos aren’t inhumane is because, they could help a species survive and possibly not let it go extinct. Sometimes when animals are in the wild they could catch a disease, and

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    Are Zoos Captive?

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    Zoos are an unnatural environment for animals. Despite the benefits that may appear to come from zoos, wild animals should not be held in captivity. “A zoo can teach you a lot about how animals behave in captivity but will teach you very little about the behavior of animals in the wild” (2017). Although thought to be educational, zoos are not the best way to learn about animals. Zoos are said to help endangered species by using captive breeding and release, but research shows that captive breeding

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    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

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    Getting Rid of Zoos Why should we get rid of zoos? Many people enjoy going to zoos. However, they don’t think about animals who live in zoos. Zoos collect different animals in one environment, but not all animals live in this environment. No place can keep different animals in their environment in small place because nobody can change the weather. We should get rid of zoos for two reasons. Frist, there is no place like home, and a zoo is not home for an animal. There are some animals live in wild,

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    Captive animals The first modern zoo to be founded was in Vienna, Madrid and Paris in the eighteenth century and later on in London and Berlin in the nineteenth century. The first zoo to be established in America was in Philadelphia and Cincinnati in the 1870s. In today’s America there are thousands of zoos. Humans like to be entertained regardless of how they are being entertained, whether that is walking through the park, watching a show, listening to music or simply going to the zoo. There are

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    Every year, wildlife animals are captured and are kept in captivity in zoos for entertainment. Zoos are unsuitable for animals to live in because the animals feel imprisoned and it affects their health and habits. Animals have their own right to live in the wildness, not in captivity. To many children and adults zoos are created for entertainment. Many people see zoos as a place that kpps animal in captivity. These wildlife animals are cramped in a small cage and are forced to live their rest of

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    go on a trip to the zoo, it can be assumed that they do not think about much more than what they can see. Signals that make zoos unfair and sometimes unbearable for the captive animals are not visible to most spectators. This essay will explain how zoos are unjust and should not be supported. Animals should not be held captive due their negative behavioral changes, lack of natural habitat and the zoos failure to effectively preserve endangered species. Even though zoos try to imitate the natural

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    people that visit a zoo annually? If you are then you may want to rethink your decision about visiting them. There are many valid reasons that animals should NOT be held in these institutions, including the animal's mental and physical health, the poor lessons being taught to children, and the conditions these animals are kept in. One of the most horrific things that comes from animals being held in zoos is the decline of their mental and/or physical health. These animals can suffer from boredom

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