Imprison Animals, No!
Animals deserve to be free to do what they want not to be imprisoned by keepers to be put on display. Animals are safe in zoos for a little until they start to go crazy from being locked in a cage like they have done something wrong. Even though putting animals in zoos can help prevent extinction, animals deserve to be free because when they are placed in zoos they forget how to use their natural instincts and survival skills, some animals are forced to mate with the animal the keeper chose instead of them picking on their own, and lastly zoos are like a prison for animals.
One reason animals deserve to be free is, when they are placed in zoos they forget how to use their natural instincts and survival skills. According to “ The Impact of Animal Protection”, protecting animals in a controlled environment is not always the best plan. When animals are in these environments, they are isolated from other animals, therefore their ability to hunt and their natural diet is limited. Also their amount of space to roam free has decreased by a lot. Yes, keeping animals has proven to be beneficial and has increased the populations of many endangered animals, but it’s not fair to the animals when they are used to lots of free space to roam, hunting for their own food, and eating on their own schedule. In
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The article “ The Impact of Animal Protection” says, putting animals in controlled environments, the animals can live safely and their numbers can increase through supervised breeding. However, in the zoo’s animals many times cannot choose who they mate with as they would in the wild. Yes , it helps increase their number and how long they will be around on earth, but they deserve to be free and choose who they would like to mate with. Sometimes when forced to mate with a certain animals the male and female fail at having
Also an animal's wild habitat wins out over captivity. Finally, zoos are teaching kids that it is perfectly fine to lock up animals for our gratification. My first reason for animals to be let out of zoos is, animals held captive in zoos often die very young. According to the article by Captive Animals Protection Society [CAPS] states the following,"40% of lion cubs die before one month of age, in the wild only 30% of cubs are thought to die before they are six months old.
First of all, zoos should keep animals in captivity, because if they are running wild around the animal park, they could cause all kinds of catastrophes, and they also could injure or possibly attack a visitor or park keeper. If the wild animals are running around on the loose, instead of being held in captivity, then they could possibly get injured, or in the worst case scenario, get lost. They could climb into the other animal cages, and possibly get into a fight with the other animals. If the animals are all in separate cages, then it decreases the risk of them getting in to a fight with the other animals. Also, zoos should keep wild animals in captivity, so that the children can be taught about the value of animals so that they understand the importance of them being looked after during their visit.
Animals that are kept in zoos are often mated with an animal they don not want to mate with. Animals were not meant to be kept in zoos. They were meant to be free in their own natural habitats. In zoos animals are put in small spaces, it has a negative impact on their behavior and health. If animals are kept in zoos they won’t know how to live on their own in the wild and can be killed by predators.
Whether it's for experimentation, research, or amusement, throughout the years there have been many reasons to keep animals captive. Zoos take animals captive in order to conserve endangered species but research has revealed that many of the animals confined in zoos are not threatened species. Most of the species in zoos are, as a matter of fact, marketable and familiar animals rather than endangered species (Keulartz, 340). Jeopardized species or not, animal captivity has had many negative effects on the captive animals such as their physiological behavior. On the other hand, zoos retain animals in cramped living conditions and are mostly maintained for human amusement.
Zoos provide a great educational experience. On the other hand, zoos help protect animal species through breeding programs. For instance, if a species is on the verge of extinction, zoos can easily solve this problem. Zoos are able to fix this problem by putting these animals in breeding programs.
Modern zoos today however, provide great recreation for animals. According to the Guardian, safe and can be bred up to provide foundation populations. A good number of species only exist in captivity and still more only exist in the wild because they have been reintroduced from zoos, or the wild populations have been boosted by captive bred animals. Zoos protect endangered animals from extinction by enclosing them in zoos, producing more of them and then setting them
Although zoos seem like they are only for entertainment, behind the scenes they are breeding animals to be released back into the wild. This process of species reproduction in a controlled
Zoos help publicize endangered species, educate the public, and save many species from the brink of extinction. Some Animal Rights Activists claim that zoos capture animals from their natural habitats for no reason. Zoos don’t just capture animals without reason. They find the young whose mother has been killed by poachers for her fur or tusks.
Zoo animals are abused, not cared for properly and have much smaller lifespans in the zoos, so why are we keeping them in zoos if they aren’t conserving biodiversity? Animals are usually born in the wild unless they are bred in captivity. When animals are born in captivity and then released a certain amount of years later, they are more vulnerable as they don’t know how to hunt or find food depending on their diet. This means that they are more likely to have no defense
Let them have the fun they deserve, and the freedom they need.to help animals not harm animals. Animals are not ours. Zoos should be shut down because animals get treated like slaves, they get torn from their families, and they get frustrated. The first reason that zoos should be shut down is animal slavery.
Standing to hear talking from an animal's right activist perspective, I strongly disagree zoos are the right place for animals. However, as an animal rights activist, I need to consider the benefits these species will gain from living in a zoo and what they will not gain from living in a zoo. These animals living in the zoos do not starve beach use they have food and water supply all the time by the zookeepers. Moreover, animals are safe. People do not kill them.
This topic should be taken more serious and as a community let's help the animals be free and wild. “Zoos have improved significantly in the last 4,000 or so years.” (Horton). At the beginning when zoos started to get build, they were build with old steel-bars and cold cement cages, but now zoos have natural looking barriers. Not all zoos have wild animals some animals come from the captive breeding program.
One lauded justification for keeping wild animals in zoos is to make sure that whenever the species becomes extinct in the wild, the zoo will release their captive bred animals back into the biodiversity of the wild (Kolbert 137). Zoos often make grandiose claims that they are all for conserving the wildlife (. But in fact, they are separating possible mates and reducing the size of the population. One would also think that the number of endangered animal species in the world would have gone down due to the zoo efforts. However in a recent study done by International Union for Conservation of Nature, 2599 animals are considered endangered in 2012 compared with 1998 levels of 890 (“Summary
¨To wit, dozens of zoos across North America participate in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA’s) Species Survival Plan (SSP) Program, which aims to manage the breeding of specific endangered species in order to help maintain healthy and self-sustaining populations that are both genetically diverse and demographically stable.¨ said Scientific American, Kelly Traw. In other words, there are programs all over the country to help certain species from becoming extinct. SSP and other related programs have helped bring black-footed ferrets, California condors, red wolves and other endangered species back from the brink of extinction over the last three decades. It is understandable why the opposition argues that zoos should be shut down because, sadly to say that some zoos do abuse their animals.
Supporters of zoos argue that they help to conserve endangered species, but in fact they are not very good at this. Even the world famous panda-breeding programme has been very costly and unsuccessful. Also, zoo life does not prepare animals for the challenges of life in the wild. For example, two rare lynxes released into the wild in Colorado died from starvation even though the area was full of hares, which are a lynx’s natural prey.