are domesticated animals captive?

Question

are animals that live in a zoo/sufari captive? what exatly do we mean by the phrase 'captive animals' and when is a animal free? can they be free?

Answer 1

I guess there's 3 categories.

domesticated animals like dogs and cats are not captive.

Parakeets as a pet, are captive, - since they are in a cage.

Lions at a zoo are captive, since they too are in some type of closure, -and can't hunt.

Lions on a preserve are 'free', since they can hunt and take care of themselves.

Answer 2

Went to this zoo once and an elephant caught my eye because it was doing some kind of stepping. It would move once forward and twice back. It did this over and over and then take a bow. I then realized that this animal had been in the circus and this is what it knew to do. It was sad and it made me angry. Yes most zoo animals are held captive. There is a reason there is a cage.

Answer 3

Any animal that is from the wild should stay in the wild. Zoos and safaris all have captive animals because they no longer live in their habitat. SO when they do escape or get set free they can not survive in the wild because they do not know how to live. Kind of like people that have spent so many years in jail they can't live like the rest of us because they have be come accustom to a certain way of life and they cannot survive back in the wild ( city)

Answer 4

Only if you hold them in a cage.
Animals in zoos are not captive. Most of the time, they don't even know what it is to be 'free', so they don't know they only have a mile to run, rather than forever.
Being captive is a state of mind. If the animals were to be born and raised in 'captivity' then they don't know what being captive is. This is how they are raised, and this is how they live.
They are free. Free spirited.

Answer 5

Obviously they can be free. We don't control every worm that lives in the ground. To be captive is to be held under control. To be domesticated is to be converted to domestic uses. As a result of domestication, many animals become dependent on humans and therefor lose the ability to survive in the wild. Animals in a zoo or safari are not as dependent on humans as say, your household dog.

Answer 6

Go to the Zoo of St Felicien, in Quebec, and you'll judge by yourself. In that zoo, th human are in cage, and the animals are free. Someone told me that during her tour in that zoo, she saw a bear attacked and eat a foan... Exactly like in the "wild" nature. They are in there own habitat.
You can tell they are captive, because they can't go out of the zoo, but they live exactly like in the nature, and no risk of hunters for them. I think those animals are free.

My cat is a domesticated animal, but he's free to go outside whenever he wants. He come back to sleep on the bed et eat his food. He's free.

Animals in "regular" zoos, which are in cage, those animals aren't free.

Answer 7

all animals that live in zoos are owned. no matter how much freedom they have theyre truly not free and are just captives. they are not free unless they live in the wild

Answer 8

When animals are in natural environment, they are free.
When animals are in a replica environment (such as a zoo) they are trapped.
When animals are placed in an environment other than their own, therefore made to suffer, then they are captives.

Answer 9

Animals are free when they are living wild in their natural environment.
When they are living in a man-made unnatural environment, they are captive.
I would think safaris see wild animals, not captive.

Answer 10

Captivated animals are those without their habitat, and do not have their own freedom... but that's different from pets.