Animal Captivity Pros And Cons

Many locals and tourists will head to the Zoo in hopes of seeing animals one can only see in the wild. A trip to the zoo is supposed to be fun, entertaining, and what some say “a good learning experience.”These exotic animals are not put in their natural environments. Pushed behind artificial enclosures, and often times lonely. Thousands of people worldwide will pass hundreds of animal exhibits and many of these people won’t stand at the animal’s exhibit long enough to notice that something is wrong with the animal's living conditions. Wildlife should remain in the wild so they can live their own lives in their natural habitats and follow their own daily routines. They have rights just like humans do and need to be around their own

Taking them out of their natural habitat is cruel, and they have no way to communicate with us to tell us their feelings. In the book Half Brother, Peter brought up the topic “slavery” and was referring to a chimp named Zan. Zan had been taken away from his mother very early on in life to be used in an experiment, which was to be raised as a human. This story shows that the animals have no rights or freedom, and that his new living area was not suitable for Zan, or any other type of wildlife. In addition, CCAC(Canadian Council on Animal Care) states that Canada experimented on over 3 million animals in 2013 and that the animals had no way out of it. Animals need to do things that an animal would normally do, so while these animals are trapped they have no way of hunting for food and instead they are fed. Zan was never on his own and Mrs.Tomlin along with the caretakers were always taking care of him, from giving him food to changing his diaper. “Half Brother” was based on the film “Project Nim.” In Project Nim, a chimp _____________. LCA, an organization that promotes a cruelty free lifestyle for animals says that “the animals are forced to live in artificial, stressful, and boring conditions. Removed from their natural habitats and social structures, they are restricted from doing exercise due to their small confined areas that deprive them of mental and physical stimulation as

These zoos help the animals to breed to produce future generations of their species while kept in a safe environment away from poachers, predators or natural disasters. Despite the fact that they are saving species, the behavioral side of these animals are being impacted. The environment that they are being confined in while breeding lack a wild and natural environment factor, according to Wildlife Preservation Trust International. Predator avoidance, and increase in sleeping patterns decrease in overall activity and problems with social behaviour are all changes in their behaviour. Even after breeding, the animals are almost never released back into the wild, but instead they are sometimes sold to other industries that involve the use of those animals, such as exotic meat industries, circuses and scientific researchers. For example, Seaworld is a profit driven industry and have little to no success in captive breeding programs, while their animals are rarely introduced back to the