Persuasive Essay Zoos

6,126 species of animals are trapped inside of tiny zoo cages with hundreds of people watching every move they take. These animals should be free to go back to their real home. Zoochosis, sad animals, and the fact that zoos aren't helping are a couple of reasons why.

As I already told you, animals in zoos should be let out into the wild. To support this, animals in zoos get a terrible disease called Zoochosis. This disease is bad. Zoochosis causes animals to bite their skin, bob their heads, bite the bars of their cage, and do other unsafe things. Would you want to be so stressed out that you wanted to harm yourself? Zoochosis also causes animals to get mentally and physically sick. Sick animals can’t be in zoos. Committing suicide is another bad symptom of Zoochosis. That animal dying forces zoos to buy a new animal, and get rid of the sad, old one. Zoochosis is only one horrible thing that happens when animals are forced to be in zoos.

That's another reason why animals should not be kept in zoos. I can tell that animals are sad because the size of their cages. Have you seen them? The habitats can be up to 1800 times smaller that their real, natural homes! I can also tell that animals in zoos are sad because the animals habitat isn’t always safe. According to PETA, a couple of kangaroos in a zoo got killed by a safari bus. At that the same zoo, a couple of donkeys had stripes painted on them to look like zebras. Another example is that the animals sit there all day with barely any food, water, or exercise. Lastly, the animals in zoos get split up from their family to go live in a tiny unsafe cage in a zoo. Many zoos make animals feel very