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    Should Animals Be Kept in Zoos

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    The document discusses the debate around keeping animals in zoos. It argues that zoos provide unnatural habitats that prevent animals from behaving naturally [1]. Animals are confined to small spaces and unable to engage in their normal behaviors like migration [2]. This causes stress and abnormal behaviors in many animals [3]. Zoos also do not provide an accurate educational experience as animals behaviors are altered in captivity [4]. While zoos claim to protect endangered species and educate the public, evidence shows many zoos do not meet standards of care and few species actually benefit [5]. Overall, the document concludes animals should not be kept in zoos as it violates their rights to freedom, natural habitats and risks neglect [6].

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    Should Animals Be Kept in Zoos

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    The document discusses the debate around keeping animals in zoos. It argues that zoos provide unnatural habitats that prevent animals from behaving naturally [1]. Animals are confined to small spaces and unable to engage in their normal behaviors like migration [2]. This causes stress and abnormal behaviors in many animals [3]. Zoos also do not provide an accurate educational experience as animals behaviors are altered in captivity [4]. While zoos claim to protect endangered species and educate the public, evidence shows many zoos do not meet standards of care and few species actually benefit [5]. Overall, the document concludes animals should not be kept in zoos as it violates their rights to freedom, natural habitats and risks neglect [6].

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    The document discusses the debate around keeping animals in zoos. It argues that zoos provide unnatural habitats that prevent animals from behaving naturally [1]. Animals are confined to small spaces and unable to engage in their normal behaviors like migration [2]. This causes stress and abnormal behaviors in many animals [3]. Zoos also do not provide an accurate educational experience as animals behaviors are altered in captivity [4]. While zoos claim to protect endangered species and educate the public, evidence shows many zoos do not meet standards of care and few species actually benefit [5]. Overall, the document concludes animals should not be kept in zoos as it violates their rights to freedom, natural habitats and risks neglect [6].

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    Should Animals Be Kept in Zoos

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    The document discusses the debate around keeping animals in zoos. It argues that zoos provide unnatural habitats that prevent animals from behaving naturally [1]. Animals are confined to small spaces and unable to engage in their normal behaviors like migration [2]. This causes stress and abnormal behaviors in many animals [3]. Zoos also do not provide an accurate educational experience as animals behaviors are altered in captivity [4]. While zoos claim to protect endangered species and educate the public, evidence shows many zoos do not meet standards of care and few species actually benefit [5]. Overall, the document concludes animals should not be kept in zoos as it violates their rights to freedom, natural habitats and risks neglect [6].

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    Should Animals be Kept in Zoos?

    The debate of whether or not confining of animals is right in zoos is a popular one that attracts both
    opponents and proponents. The increased interests in science and natural history saw the
    introduction of zoos in 1763, which facilitated up close animal studies and would provide a chance
    for entertaining and educating the public. Nevertheless, confining the animals into small spaces in
    unnatural habitats, the constant staring from people and loss of their freedom makes zoos the worst
    homes for animals.

    Zoos provide unnatural habitats for the animals. Animals are naturally born and bred to live and die
    in wilderness habitats. However, despite the numerous efforts and good intentions by zoo
    management, it is impossible to provide the perfect environment for various animals. For instance,
    animals like the wilder beasts live in groups that migrate over long distances while elephants on
    average walk for over 50 km a day in packs. However, zoos can only provide minimal acres of land for
    the animals to walk about thereby making the environments unnatural and uncomfortable for the
    animals.

    Zoos are a premise of captivity for animals that makes them crazy. Imprisoning of animals in small
    cages housed in poorly managed zoos that fail to meet the necessary standards, averts them from
    behaving naturally. As a result, suffer from zoochosis condition, which elicits stress, strange behavior
    of hurting themselves due to frustration and boredom; they become inactive and increasingly pace
    around. Moreover, the animals adopt aggressive behavior that results in them lashing out and
    injuring or killing people.

    Zoos are not educational. Zoos operate on the premise that they provide an opportunity for the
    public to learn about animals. However, this is untrue, as keeping animals in confined and unnatural
    environments tend to alter their natural behavior, character, and responses. Thus, persons visiting
    the zoos observe the altered behavior marred by boredom, stress, and loneliness. Moreover, keeping
    animals in zoos teach people that it is okay to lock up and make animals miserable for their personal
    gain. Therefore, by gaining pleasure and entertainment from making animals suffer is a horrible
    lesson to learn.

    Proponents of keeping animals in zoos argue that zoos offer the best forms of protection for animals.
    According to them, animals receive protection from poaching and predators that are out to kill them.
    Additionally, by engaging in breeding programs, zoos believe they protect various species from
    becoming extinct, therefore, making them positive institutions to exist. However, this is untrue as
    some zoos keep the animals in deplorable environments when they lack food and adequate medical
    care. Moreover, based on research, endangered animals living in zoos are only about five species and
    only a few species undergo breeding.

    Proponents also believe that zoos provide the opportunity for people to see a wide array of animals
    while benefiting children with lessons about the environment and animals. Nevertheless, this is not
    the case as zoos only house few species of animals as compared to those an individual can observe in
    the wild. Also, zoos expose animals to neglect and stress that alter their behavior hence impeding
    true learning for children.

    In conclusion, animals just as humans enjoy rights to freedom, protection from abuse, stress, neglect
    and lack of privacy. There is no denying that zoo violates all these rights by introducing them to
    unnatural habitats and caging the animals. Hence, in promoting health and happiness of the animals,
    animals should not be kept in zoos.

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