Animal Captivity Research Paper

Does being caged up for a majority of your lifetime sound like the kind of life you would want to live? Does doing tricks for food and being isolated from the outside world sound like fun to you? Animals in captivity live a life similar to that every single day. Captivity is not natural. It negatively affects an innocent animal's life forever. How an animal lives in captivity is completely different than how wild animals live. It is quite simple really: wild animals belong in the wild and caged animals should cease to exist due to reasons such as diet, life expectancy, and behavior. Being an animal in captivity has its pros and cons when it's meal time. Animals scarf down food that is loaded with vitamins and minerals to keep their entire bodies healthy and strong. Employees at the zoo, or wherever it is the animal is being held captive, provide the animals food at certain times throughout the …show more content…
No matter how hard the containment facility attempts to recreate the outdoors, it will never come close to the real world. Research proves that wild animals live longer than caged animals. According to Hannah Sentenac, writer of "Empty the Cages and Tanks!", animals such as elephants, which are popular when it comes to being held captive by humans, normally do not live past the age of forty, but in the wild, these majestic creatures can easily live to be sixty or seventy years old. The reason for the different life expectancies of captive and wild animals is solely based on environment. Animals are locked in small cages or rooms with little to no opportunity to socialize with others. The size of an animal's containment facility is a minute fraction of what the size of their home in the wild would be. Captivity is unnatural and unhealthy (Sentenac). Being locked in a cage for an entire lifetime is only something that human prisoners need to experience: not innocent, wild