Animal Captivity Research Paper

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Should animals be held captive?, some people say the unhealthy way animals behave in captivity is not because they are known to be mean animals but it is because they are being held captive and they are not able to do what they were born to do, and I agree. People fail to recognise that animals have their own needs to be met just like humans, for their own purposes. Animals trapped in zoos suffer physically and mentally “as their complex social and behavioural and physical needs can not be met” ( ). Zoos keepers should not be allowed to leave pack animals alone to feel lonely. I think animals should not be held captive because if animals keep getting captured by humans just to go in a zoo they might start to become extinct, especially if zookeepers keep shooting animals just for moving. Once an animal gets shot it …show more content…

Animals such as tigers and giraffes are getting taken away from their home and family. Most are dying because they are too young to live on their own and still need their mom or it is because they are unhealthy and zoos are doing nothing to help take care of these animal that they captured. Animals living in zoos show children that animals can be manipulated just so that we can fulfil our own curiosity about them. Zoos do not save animals from extinction. “Instead, they divert much need attention away from important conservation work in the wild.” On the other side of this topic some people are saying that it is good to keep wild animals in captivity. They say that keeping wild animals in captivity can help protect them. Other people think that zoos are a safe places so people can not get to wild animals horns and fur. Those people think that these animals are safer trapped in cages for there whole life rather than in the wild where they belong. Other people are saying if they have enough money to buy good food and big enough habitats the animals will be fine, they think it is

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