Persuasive Essay On Zoos

“The next morning, Dahl and Jepsen were scheduled to dissect a young, baby, and healthy, lion in front of a family audience, as part of a weekend-long event called, Animals Inside Out. The two partners willingly took out the lion from a freezer nearby. The lion was euthanized a year earlier and was kept freezing for that long.”

How many of you have been to a zoo? If you have you’ve seen the imprisonment of animals in cages. All humans are excited to see and explore with animals, thinking that the animals are happy to be safe. Truth is, Animals are going crazy in these enclosures! Keeping these special creatures in zoos is very harmful to them because there is less space for them, they have no wild experiences, and they are killed/abused for

Animals also reproduce. The zookeepers don’t know how many babies each animal is going to make, and so if there is too many, they are considered unneeded. “Instead of providing lifetime care, zoos routinely trade, lend, sell, barter, and warehouse animals they no longer want—despite knowing that many species form lasting bonds that are important to their long-term health and happiness.” Removing animals from established social groups and forcing them to adjust repeatedly to new routines, different caretakers, and unfamiliar cagemates are disruptive and traumatic.Animal welfare often takes a backseat to the bottom line. Precious financial resources, including taxpayer subsidies, are often squandered on fancy entrances and amusement rides when every cent should be spent to improve the animal's’ living conditions. But even the biggest cage with species-appropriate enrichment is still a pale comparison to the natural ecosystems where wild animals belong.Some zoos don’t care about these selling opportunities, but just as bad, stuff all of the animals into one cage. Now, nobody likes to be kept in a room with lots of people because it's all stuffy and moist, but imagine you are put into a room where the number of people exceeds the maximum capacity by far and everyone is going in different directions. How would you