Animals Should Not Be Kept In Zoos Essay

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    The Pros And Cons Of Zoos

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    Is it humane to keep animals in captivity? What about having pets? Pet owners make sure their pets are healthy and get fed every day. Zoo workers are just like pet owners, keeping the animals healthy and fed. Some people think zoos should no longer exist. There are zoos out there that are not the best but there are more good zoos than bad. Zoos conserve animals, breed animals, help humans gain knowledge about wild animals, entertain, and create jobs. If people never saw animals doing amazing things

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    Zoos: The Federal Animal Welfare Act

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    Zoos often claim they are modern day arks, providing a safe, comfortable environment; making animals happy and content; educating the world about wildlife; and saving species from the brink of extinction while at the same time providing vital research into the lives of animals. There is a moral presumption against keeping wild, defenseless animals in captivity. The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without a trial. Either we have duties to animals or we do not. I feel that we

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    The state of Florida should ban animals in captivity because the animals are mistreated in the zoos and they don't live their life like how their supposed to live it in the wild. The state of Florida should ban the animals in captivity because they are miserable . The animals are kept in a small cage without food or water most of the time and the exhibits are fake they are made for the people and not for the safety of the animals. Alsothe animals can't migrate like how their supposed to in the

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    Many people think we should ban animals in captivity, and others may think we should not ban the animals. Honestly we should not ban animals. There's plenty of reasons why we should not ban animals from zoos and other exhibits. In "Myth And Reality" it says as long as the animals are kept in captivity they are suppose to get treated humanly, because studies have shown that animals suffer mentally, emotionally, and even physically. It also says that zoos claim to teach visitors about the wild life

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    Persuasive Essay On Zoos

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    Because humans have in the past destroyed animal habitats, we have tried to help the animals in some way, by taking in what is endangered. But is the way they are currently doing it the very best way? Zoos have been around for centuries, and their conditions haven’t always been the best. But recently they have progressed really well from what they were. Even though zoos have many helpful benefits, zoos should instead have a capture and release system. Quick release would help preserve the innate

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    because they can bite,scratch, or even make you bleed. Animals should not be kept in cages. When animals or pets are stuck in cages they don’t have fun in their life they don’t play, run and not even do anything in a little box. The only thing they can do with a little box is eat and drink water or milk. Imagine you were that animal kept away from your natural home used for money. Sure through the centuries humans have used cages to take non-human animals out of their natural habitats in addition confine

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    It has been argued about in Florida about whether they should allow or ban animals to be captured from their natural habitat and kept in zoo.It is evident that yes,the state of Florida should ban the captivity of wild animals.Because the article "Zoos:Myth and Reality" says that animals in zoos live in misery because they don't have their needs met for example the animals in zoos are not able to live in their proper habitat and the animals don't get represented correctly.Also,they say that exhibits

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    “Captive animals are abused and exploited in a variety of settings, including research and product testing, the entertainment industry, fur farms, and the exotic ‘pet’ trade” (Born Free USA). Zoos are holding animals all around the world captive. Zoos are not letting them live in their natural habitats and roam free. Captive animals are are not healthy and it's not good for the environment. For example bornfreeusa.org states “Every year, captive exotic animals are involved in incidents in which humans

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    Why zoos are inhumane On average about 175 million people visit zoos every year. Out of all of them not many know that the zoo animals are not treated as well as they should be. The animals are put in cages without any of their family for others that they knew. A lot of people say that zoos are good, and that people can learn a lot from the animals in zoos . But, in reality, there are many alternative ways to find out things about animals instead of putting them in cages and not let them do what

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    Keeping animals in zoos and aquariums dates back in 1963 when the first zoo the in Paris, France. The main purposes of zoos were to educate science and natural history of animals and todayhave are used for entertainment, education and even scientific research. So far there are about 3000 animal exhibitors held in the US, and they include zoos, petting farms, marine mammal parks and circuses among others. Out of these, less than 10% are approved by Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) which sets

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