...And locked up and taken to a far off land so people can come and gawk at them? Do you feel at least a bit sorry for them?
2006-06-27 02:39:33 · 21 answers · asked by MAK 6 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Zoos are awful for some of the animals. How would you like to be in prison for the rest of your life? And the large animals have no room for real excersize. Some zoos try to make an effort to make the animals as comfortable as possible and those are great. Others just want to make money and I will not support them.
2006-06-27 02:50:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a well-managed zoo where the welfare of the animal is a top priority, and their needs are met as well as possible... not really.
Most zoo animals live longer and reproduce better than their wild brethren- the former is a measure of quality of care, the latter is a measure of how well the animal has adapted to captivity.
Most animals do not have a sense of family, so that part is us projecting our feelings on them. The 'removed form natural habitat' part is dealt with in good zoos. Animals in good enclosures also do not have a sense of being 'locked up'.
Done right, zoos serve a purpose in educating us and enlightening us to care about animals. The few in cages serve as ambassadors to their species to hopefully encourage us to treat the wilderness better and protect these animals and their homes.
2006-06-27 06:20:22 · answer #2 · answered by Madkins007 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For Sure! I went to the Lincoln Park Zoo, in Chicago. There was this Chimp who was laying on his back, looking at the sky. He was right next to the glass, where my daughter and I were standing. He looked over at me, and we locked eyes for a few seconds. I was overwhelmed by how intelligent he looked. You could just see the gears turning in his head, and somehow I know that he was thinking that he wanted out. It was like looking at someone on death row. You wonder how they got there in the first place.
On the other hand, not all the animals there were captured from the wild. Some of them have injuries that prevent them from being released. There's a place in Illinois that used to have a bald eagle. It had a bad wing, and couldn't fly. Had he not been in captivity, being fed and cared for, he likely would have died.
Shedd Aquarium in Chicago has a sea turtle that was rescued from the sea. A boat hit it, damaging it's shell. It was discovered and taken to an aquarium in Floridia, untill it recovered. When it came to the Shedd, they did an x-ray on it and found that a 1975 nickel was lodged in it's throat. They removed it, and gave the lucky turtle the name "Nickel"
Nickel has an equilibrium problem, and can't float correctly. He would not survive in the wild. But, at the Shedd, he's extremely well taken care of.
2006-06-27 03:11:00 · answer #3 · answered by Answer Schmancer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My family went to a small zoo last week, and all the animals there were either injured so severely that they were unable to be released back into the wild, or they were born in captivity. Included in this zoo were two Bald Eagles, both had been shot. One of them had lost a foot, making him unable to catch the fish that are the main part of their diet. The other one had been hurt in it's wing badly enough that it wasn't able to fly again. At least in a zoo, they had a chance to live comfortably instead of starving to death, and hopefully teach other people to respect the rest of their species.
2006-06-27 04:25:13 · answer #4 · answered by imzadi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No offense, but zoos were started in an effort to conserve animals that humans are destroying either them or their environment. I don't particularly like zoos, but many zoo vets are involved in various research and conservation programs. If you don't believe me than take time and educate yourself, before you attack another institution without the facts or come off sounding uneducated.
Plus for me who treats exotic pets, they help build databases on bloodwork so I can tell if a persons pets are sick or not.
2006-06-27 02:53:06 · answer #5 · answered by rabbitwhisperer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Animals have feelings as well, and I hate the zoo because for me, it's a gloomy place of torture. People can be so self-riteous. They take animals from their homes and place them somewhere else. How would they feel if some scary unknown being came a trapped them, and taken them somewhere they've never been before, away from their families?
2006-06-27 02:45:47 · answer #6 · answered by ze_kitty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do feel sorry for them, unless they were born in the zoo, in which case it would be horrible to take them back to the wild because they don't know how to survive.
PS: I've only been to a zoo twice, so I'm not financing it and I really do feel sorry.
2006-06-27 03:06:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really zoos, because they probably last longer than they would out in the wild. But as for circuses, I detest those. I refuse to go to them because i've heard a lot about the abuse of animals in them. Very sad. :(
2006-06-27 03:41:01 · answer #8 · answered by aloneinga 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do feel sorry for the animal at the zoo because i work at the zoo in d.c. and we get animal from places i have never heard of. the animal be quiet and sometimes violent.
2006-06-27 02:45:56 · answer #9 · answered by alazandria 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends how they r kept, many of them r bredd in captity so they know no better, if they have a large open space then im happy, but recently went to a zoo and the lions where in a small space with no where to hide. they wer very destressed and pacin back and forth
2006-06-27 03:12:30 · answer #10 · answered by invigeration69 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋