Animals Kept in Captivity (Zoos)
Animals should not be in captivity because it disrupts their life and the cycle. By keeping some animals in captivity and not others, the population ratios will differ and then cause a chain reaction in the food chain. On the news there was an Elephant that was kept in a Zoo for its entire life and then started to have problems. People noticed that the elephant was rocking back and forth. The elephant would go for days without eating until a zoo keeper had to force feed it. Elephants are also nomadic like most animals and being kept in a small perimeter caused it to lose any mental ability that it had. Also, by keeping wild animals in order to be a window shopping item, these animals progressively become less scared of humans. An alligator was let back out into the Everglades in Florida. Later it was found to be located in a residential area that had a creek by it. The alligator had killed a dog and the owners had called the ASPCA to take care of it. It was then put down because it was a danger to humanity. However, we had made it become congenial with human places. We had made it become dangerous to us. Keeping animals in captivity is wrong and it negatively affects the animals. Animals should be appreciated from afar, not in a cage or behind a glass window.
Animals in Circuses
Animals in circuses are tortured into doing tricks. How can it be funny to see an enormous elephant climb onto a tiny stool and balance on it?! How is it cool to see a tiger jump through fire? Poachers capture tigers by encircling them in fire, having them jump through it for a crowd is unbearable.
4 comments:
I agree that not all animal captivity is necessary, yet at the same time it is. When animals are taken out of their environment it is always disorienting, but sometimes it is for a great cause. Sometimes animals such as tigers and other endangered species are specifically taken out of their natural habitats to avoid being killed by poachers and other people that kill these animals for their own personal benefit. Another reason for animals to be kept in captivity is for scientific reasons. We can study the behaviors of animals more naturally outside of zoos, but we can study them more thoroughly when the threat of death isn't impedeing our progress. Then sometimes animals are taken into captivity because of problems such as sickness. I agree that animals should not be taken into captivity unnecessarily, but sometimes it is for the greater good.
But how do you suppose that we go about studding animals and sharring there wounders with the renound public? Also, if we don't capture animals and use them for our own ammusement, how do we show our dominentness over them? Then, if you truely want to save endangered spiecies, a zoo is the perfect place to do so, because we hold values to give all animalls equal, fair and just habitats to keep them living the fullest longest life possible. And if this is SO unjust, they wouldn't be so tamed so easy, and they'd revolt at any chance. (like some do)
Zac- We don't need to show our dominance over other animals. We areonly able to capture them because of our intellegence. Most animals are stronger, faster, and bigger than we are. A zoo does not take care of the young because they usually don't have space. They send the offspring to another place soon after they are born. Therefore they never learn the important ways of living with others. The animals can not revolt because they have no allies. There was an elephant was in a circus in India and it escsaped and started to terrorize the neighboring villages. However, the poor animal didn't know where to go. The humans shot at him and eventually killed him.
I feel that keeping animals in captivity is fine. First of all zoo arent always miserable places for animals they get fed, they dont get eaten, and they are provided with shelter. And yes we are able to dominate animals because we are much more intelligent so why wouldnt we if we can manipulate them to do our bidding i feel that we should. I say let strong dominate the weak because thats how the 'animal cycle' works any way. im not trying to be an A-hole but i feel we should even be allowed to utalize animal labor, its the way of life strong dominate the weak
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