The advantages and disadvantages of keeping animals in Zoos/captivity
Some advantages and disadvantages I have found through internet research from various sites / other peoples opinions:
Advantages:
-Endangered animals have a safe place to live and continue breeding to prevent extinction
- A zoo is a safe place to visit and experience seeing wild animals up close.
- Zoo's give medical care and feed animals who need help, they have no worry or stress about having to find food or water
-Zoos educate people about the importance of rescuing endangered animals, it also informs future generations of what they can do to help.
- If it wern't for zoos many animals such as the great panda, would be extinct by now
-Animals in zoos have a small risk of being harmed compared to animals in the wild.
- Enclosures have changed from metal bars and cod cement to more natural barriers and enclosures resembling the animals natural habitat.
- The capture of animals had changed so that you do not catch the animals from the wild but apply to recieve the young from other zoos breeding programs
Disadvantages:
- Animals live in man made enclosures and dont get to live naturally. They always live in the same place all year round.
-Animals get easily stressed from small enclosures or crowding and limited privacy.
-Animals lack mental stimulation and physical exercise.
-Unregistered animals on a international species database, some animals in zoos are not even endangered so why are they in captivity!?
-Apparentoly zoos have been known to supply animals for use in experiments.
-Zoos have apparently also been known to supply animals to the exotic meat industry.
-Some zoo animals have ended up in circuses
-Animals are said to die prematurely or at an earlier age in zoos
-Some animals are forced to live in climates that do not suit them
Some questions:
-Some animals breed well in captivity and their young are always appealing, but what happens when they get older?
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Advantages:
-Endangered animals have a safe place to live and continue breeding to prevent extinction
- A zoo is a safe place to visit and experience seeing wild animals up close.
- Zoo's give medical care and feed animals who need help, they have no worry or stress about having to find food or water
-Zoos educate people about the importance of rescuing endangered animals, it also informs future generations of what they can do to help.
- If it wern't for zoos many animals such as the great panda, would be extinct by now
-Animals in zoos have a small risk of being harmed compared to animals in the wild.
- Enclosures have changed from metal bars and cod cement to more natural barriers and enclosures resembling the animals natural habitat.
- The capture of animals had changed so that you do not catch the animals from the wild but apply to recieve the young from other zoos breeding programs
Disadvantages:
- Animals live in man made enclosures and dont get to live naturally. They always live in the same place all year round.
-Animals get easily stressed from small enclosures or crowding and limited privacy.
-Animals lack mental stimulation and physical exercise.
-Unregistered animals on a international species database, some animals in zoos are not even endangered so why are they in captivity!?
-Apparentoly zoos have been known to supply animals for use in experiments.
-Zoos have apparently also been known to supply animals to the exotic meat industry.
-Some zoo animals have ended up in circuses
-Animals are said to die prematurely or at an earlier age in zoos
-Some animals are forced to live in climates that do not suit them
Some questions:
-Some animals breed well in captivity and their young are always appealing, but what happens when they get older?
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