Persuasive Essay Zoos

While most people say that by going to the Zoo you are having a wonderful experience and learning a lot, some people strongly disagree they might even say that the people that work at the zoo now less than what the signs on the front of the exhibits say. Why should they be working there if they don’t know how to take care of the animals they are working with. Zoos are horrible prisons that are harming animals and making them unhealthy until they die or they kill them.

Zoos are prisons where they are harming animals by not giving them the things they need and instead provide them with the wrong things. “Compared to their homes in the wild, animals have considerable less space in captivity. To put it into perspective, tigers and lions have around

“Flamingos in cold climates, polar bears in Argentina, and whales in bathtubs — these are hardly natural environments for animals...an unwanted wallaby was drowned to death when the owner no longer wanted it...Not all zoos have the ability, or proper training to care for the animals”(Source:http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/10-reasons-to-skip-your-next-zoo-visit/ ) Zoos need to have a reality check. They say that all there animals are happy and healthy well than if they are happy and healthy then why are they showing zoonoses and being killed? Well that is because of how they are being treated and how much these people that take care of them are not well informed. Zoos make animals unhealthy to the point that they kill the animals and most likely feed the dead animals to the alive ones that get the most money for zoos. “The Humboldt penguins at Scarborough Sea Life Centre have been prescribed antidepressants because they’re so unhappy...Because the Gaza Zoo painted stripes on these donkeys to make them look like zebras...Because when baby animals who were exhibited in the Minnesota Zoo’s yearly farm display grew up and lost their youthful appeal, the zoo sent them to livestock auctions...Because a bear starved to death at the Toledo Zoo after zoo officials locked her up to hibernate without food or water…”(Source: http://www.peta.org/features/zoo-animal-abuse/ ) These are all/ most of the things that zoos are doing wrong and what