Do zoos benefit animals?

Answer 1

yes, zoo's in places where monitored by outside agency's (aka American Zoo and Aquarium Association) actually do alot to help animals. Here in my area, two zoos work to provide fund raising and community involvment in ecological projects (such as purchasing tracts of land) with other agencies to give Jaguar's in SW USA and central america viable habitat.

Zoos work with local agency's and government providing research, education, and helping to enact laws and reserves for protection: again w/ the Jaguar, zoo's here in the USA are largely responsible for legislation in places like brazil and belise to prevent killing, education for farmers, economic aide for farmers and land owners, education to locals to create positive understanding of the animal.

Zoos are not the tyrantical self serving institutions they were 50 years ago. The pendullum has swung and they are now instrumental in healthy populations of animals, breeding stock, and hopefully the survival of vanishing species. As well as educating us and getting us involved.

Answer 2

It depends on the zoo. It depends on the animal.

Some zoos are very conscientious and set the standard. Others only make changes after a problem arises. Some zoos try to educate and affect change, others pretty much just collect your money and feed the animals.

When zoos all started they were a pretty sorry spectacle as far as humane treatment of the animals was concerned, for the most part. The desire for private and public collections sometimes had a detrimental impact on species with dwindling populations.

Answer 3

Sort of....There are pros and cons about zoos. Zoos can preserve and breed an animal to keep it somewhat in-extinct but zoos kind of take freedom from an animal. Making the animal be caged up and serving it meals can make the animal be more domestic. The animal really wouldn't be like it would in the wild. The animal wouldn't get its own food. It would be served 3-4 meals a day.

Answer 4

Yes, by educating people to care about and help preserve habitat in the wild, and by breeding endangered species and releasing them into the wild to re-establish wild populations. Look at the California Condor...would be extinct right now if not for the Los Angeles and San Diego Zoos.

Answer 5

unfortunately, now they do. Zoos were originally meant to showcase animals, but they became very cruel environments. Now they are necessary to preserve the wildlife we are losing every day.

Answer 6

Yes only to keep the species around

Answer 7

no and yes. Yes because Predators cannot get to them,except for humans lol. No because they do not have enough room to roam.

Answer 8

they're helping the pandas. :)