Persuasive Essay On Zoos

Many people go to their local zoo to get up close and interact with animals that can only be seen on television or in the wild. Zoos can provide a fun and educating environment to the public. However, animals in zoos are living in confined areas behind fences and glass enclosures. These animals are forced to entertain us whilst we flash our cameras in front of their faces, and let our children bang and knock on their glass enclosures. The majority of us are oblivious that we have been laughing at zoo animals (this whole time). Is the zoo really considered an acceptable form of entertainment when these animals are in captivity? Going to the zoo is a sadistic pleasure. We have no respect for animals if they spend their lives behind bars for our

It is extremely cruel to put them in captivity and their abnormal behaviour is expressing signs of insanity. No one would want to live behind bars and be gazed at all day. Zoo animals experience this torture every day and they have no choice. They are suffering in jail and are showing signs of zoochosis. Zoochosis, (are?) the stereotypical stress behaviours of an animal (which) can be repetitive movements, repeatedly retracing their steps or biting the bars of their enclosure. One of the animals that suffer the most in zoos is elephants. A government-funded study of elephants in zoos in the United Kingdom found that fifty-four percent of the elephants showed zoochosis when the zoo is open to the public. It is not surprising at all to hear that elephants in captivity are stressed due to their incredibly small enclosures and the lackluster environment zoos provide. Both humans and animals in captivity experience stress. A human in jail may experience stress during their service. However, their stress is only temporary as they know that one day they will no longer be kept behind bars. Animals in captivity, on the other hand, are kept in their enclosures until they die and therefore their stress is permanent. Surprisingly, elephants in captivity that are protected and cared for have shorter lives than their friends living in the wild live less than half as long as their friends living in the wild (one living in their natural habitat). In 2008, researchers of the Compromised Survivorship in Zoo Elephants study analyzed over 4500 elephants (life spans). The results show that the median life span for African elephants in European zoos is seventeen years, compared to fifty-six years of elephants living in their natural habitat. Their short life expectancy can be blamed due to the stress they experience. Elephants are not provided the large grazing areas they are familiar with and many of them are alone