Zoos are around the world, in the hottest weather and the coldest and yet some people seem to not appreciate it. A Lot of people think that humanity is wasting their money on animals that don’t benefit the people of critics, but yet they don't realize that animals are not just for being benefited in anything. Zoos give opportunity for animal to be safe and be valuable. We should always have zoos. “According to AZA over 180 million visitors to zoos it accredits participate in educational program each year, including over 50 million students”. According to the description in the article zoos benefit in the academics humanity. Giving an opportunity to get interested in something they see and believe can they can do it better, in a matter of having fun and experiencing new things. In short words the students get a lot of benefits not counting in money or anything related, but in having to see the world of wildlife and how creative and outstanding it can be. Second, it gives the humanity to see real world wildlife. For example having to see an animal on television is not the same as seeing it in real life, having to touch, feel, and hear how they really …show more content…
According to people's “Theory” people who take care of the animals in the zoo take advantages of the money they receive each they a visitor goes in, but people don't know that each dollar that the zoo receives goes to the animals. For example; animals that are being rescued each day they need treatment and somewhere to stay. Animals that are sick and have been abused need a home and zoos are a big life savers for this animals. Just as article states “ In 2002, U.S. authorities seized six polar bears from a mexican circus that was touring puerto rico.the circus had abandoned the beard and left them in the sweltering heat, the bear had been physically abused and were severely
Considering the many challenges animals face in the wild, it is understandable that people may be eager to support zoos and may feel that they are protective facilities necessary for animal life. In the article “ Zoos Are Not Prisons. They Improve the Lives of Animals”, Author Robin Ganzert argues that Zoos are ethical institutions that enrich the lives of animals and ultimately protect them. Statistics have shown that animals held in captivity have limited utilitarian function resulting in cramped quarters, poor diets, depression, and early death for the animals thus, proving that Zoos are not ethical institutions that support and better the lives of animals as author Robin Ganzert stated (Cokal 491). Ganzert exposes the false premise in stating
For instance, watching animals suffer because of not being in their natural habitat is inhumane. They don't just take care and save animals for nothing, they do it for their own satisfaction. Unlike the people who believe animals are just creatures, people who care about these animals are hurting right now because they see others not caring and not helping the animals that contribute this environment of beauty.
Cope, Doris L. Week 2 Environmental Ethics Essays 1 Zoos are immoral because they capture wild animals from their native homelands, transport them to strange lands, and hold them captive for human amusement and entertainment for long periods of time while largely ignoring their intrinsic right. The only way zoos can possibly be moral is if zoos really put the interests of the animals first and if zoos found ways for us to observe them. (Sanger 2014). In response to the philosophically based animal rights movement of the 1980s, The Zoological Society of San Diego had to admit that concerns for humane treatment and quality of life within zoological institutions mirrored the attitudes of society toward human-animal relationships…and
Zoos are very inhumane, because the animals are put to their misery inside of their cages Lions and tigers have around 18,000 times less space in a zoo and Polar bears have one million times less space when living in a zoo.
Animal rights have become a very serious issue here in the United States over the last few decades. One issue that has been discussed is whether or not zoos serve a good purpose or are they just a torture chamber for the animals. Locked up in small cages so people can yell at them and stare. Or are zoos the key to save our species in an ever growing human population. Rachel Lu, a philosophy teacher and senior columnist, writes the article, “Let’s Keep Zoos: Learning stewardship is a good thing.”, published April 18, 2014, argues that zoos are worth keeping. Rachel Lu uses her personal experiences to appeal to her audience that zoos are valuable to people especially young children because it gives them a perspective on nature.
Analysis of Argument for Ethical Zoos and How They Benefit Animals Due to the recent events in the Cincinnati Zoo, arguments have been sparked about the ethics of zoos. Most articles try to argue against zoos and closed environments, but there are those that still support zoos and the programs that they provide for endangered species. The argument “Zoos Are Not Prisons”? They Improve the Lives of Animals” focuses on the positives of animal enclosures and fights for support to keep zoos in business. The author, Dr. Robin Ganzert, ties examples of programs that zoos help create and what type of research is conducted in the zoos, to support his claims.
Have you ever been to a zoo with people feeling happy, jolly, cheering when they see a polar bear or an animal doing a trick, don’t you love those good memories of people being happy? Well if you didn’t already know people are trying to get rid of those wonderful memories you have had, especially a group named PETA who are against zoos. They believe zoos are ruining animals, even though zoos are actually making animals better and helping animals survive especially if they can’t defend themselves in the wild. Save zoos by debating against them and now! People shouldn’t get rid of zoos.
“Zoos are internment camps for animals and should be shut down.” Phrases like this will be heard repeatedly from some animals’ defenders. The most common arguments from them is that animals should not keep in captivity. Animals should live in the wild. That is its nature, their home is placed on the wildlife. Their where not born to be behind bars or fence. Their nature is live free, is to catch its own food and watch for its own safety. All the above would sound like magical notes for the reader, but what about if the animal reality were different or not so easy. What about if kept living in the wild could be the ends of their specie, if the own nature turn against them, or many times the humans turn their wildlife in an inferno. Should be zoos shut down when they safe complete species since the extinction? Should be zoos shut down when they rescue and cure animals, when they provide a safe home for many before reinsert them in the wild? No, of course not, zoos plays and important role in the restorations and the conservation of planet Earth.
Zoo’s enclosures and parks have been around for quite a while now, and it is the duty of the public to go to these parks to explore a new world and experience the “true” animals. People are attracted to new experiences and to learn about exotic animals and see them in their “natural” habitat, or so owners try to present zoos to the public in that way. The seller ideas to get the public to continue to go to the zoos is gaining new exotic animals that you wouldn’t normally see around your house or near civilization. As stated by DeLuca and Slawter-Volkening, zoos are used to “bringing a taste of wilderness” to its public (3), trying to give a false reality of the wilderness. Later in the same article, they stated that “fundamentally zoos exist to amuse people…..animals are reduced to actors in the play/world created by humans for humans” (DeLuca and Slawter-Volkening 4). This statement shows that humans do in fact enjoy the “fake” over the real, and that animals are only objects or toys used to amuse the people.
In “Why zoos are good” Dr. Dave Hone highlights education as one of the main reasons he supports zoos, mentioning how many people who live in cities may never get to experience wild animals if it weren’t for zoos. Hone states educational videos and documentaries are an option, but they “pale next to seeing a living creature in the flesh, hearing it, smelling it, watching what it does and having the time to absorb details” (Hone). Not only do zoos provide interactive learning opportunities and a direct opportunity to experience how animals behave in the flesh, Hones notes zoos can be educational else where, as a significant amount work to send workers abroad to conservatives to help educate others on how to improve conditions for the animals. However, there is another side to the educational perspective. A critic of zoos, Yourofsky argues against the positive education experience others believe zoos provide, supporting his opinion with how the animals are in their unnatural habitats. Yourofsky writes, “one cannot learn about animals who are in an UNNATURAL habitat displaying UNNATURAL behaviors from the stress of confinement and lethargy of captivity” (Yourofsky). Hence, from this logic the educational experience is minimized because the animals are in an inaccurate environment, impacting behavior and differentiating from how they would truly behave
Also the fact that almost every zoo around world needs to be improved in certain way, supports the second perspective best. Although, both two perspectives are true in different ways people should not be biased in one idea. The only main goal is to improve the animals living environment, and to prevent any possibility that could lead to an extinction of any animal species, and protect their rights as a living individual like a human. Certain requirement must be placed upon every zoo all over the world. Immediate action should be taken from now, otherwise it may be too late to do anything.
There is no clear winner in this argument, with all sides having a say in whether or not zoos are relevant in todays society. But one thing is for sure: many would argue that zoos have brought humans and animals closer together for the good and the bad. Works Cited The "Zoos". Animal Cruelty -. N.p., n.d. Web.
Zoos display fascinating animals from all over the world for human entertainment, research, conservation, and education. Many scientists conduct studies on animals in captivity that they may not have been able to in the wild. Zoos educate all the visitors that come; they let people know everything that they know about the animals on display. We do learn a lot from these animals, but not all of the animals in the zoo are behaving like they normally would in the wild. Larger animals, such as elephants and orcas (commonly known as killer whales), have trouble with being confined in such a small area. However, many smaller animals benefit from zoos because they provide protection from predators, natural disasters, and poachers. They also benefit from conservation efforts; the babies being born get all the care they could ever need. Some animal rights activists are concerned that the conservation efforts are limiting the gene pool of the species. They argue that the small number of animals able to breed in captivity limits biodiversity and leads to weaknesses in the species overall. Zoos are wonderful places to study and learn about animals, but we need to improve the living standards for animals that struggle with captivity.
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.
Having animals available in zoos, researchers have easier access to these animals.