Picture this: sunny skies, roaring waters, monkeys swinging around.You here the roar of the great tiger makes your heart jump and the humming of the bees. You run around, like the deer you are, with a cheery disposition. You hop over to the crystal lake and start to take a sip. Everything is going your way. When suddenly, a dart comes up behind you, knocks you out, you get thrown into a truck and go on a very uncomfortable truck ride, and then you wake up in the smoggiest, most terrifying place in the world and you start freaking out.That, my friends is called a zoo,and it is the start of a very terrible life. It is clear what my position on animals in captivity is. I most definitely do not agree with captivity. I have seen animals be treated wrongly, and act very strange, and I do not agree with that and I’m going to prove why.
My first reason is that animals do NOT act like they do in the wild. In the article, “Do Animals Lose in Zoos” they state that, “Polar bears have been seen swimming around in circles, parrots have groomed themselves until they have lost their feathers, and big cats have been seen endlessly pacing around.” I have seen animals on Animal Planet, Wild Kratts, and National …show more content…
They barely have enough room for themselves.In the article,”Do Animals Lose in Zoos?”, it states that animals are “confined in small spaces” and “it has a negative impact on on the animal behavior.” In my life, I have gone into some very enclosed spaces, and they were very uncomfortable. You can barely move around and it’s just horrible. Sometimes I get claustrophobic. Now I know that it protects them from endangerment, but if we are going to take them from their wide open habitat then at least we could give them a nice, snug, and homey home instead of a cramped cage. Of course we have no worries about it because we have houses with rooms we don’t know what to do with, and I should
My first reason is that animals do NOT act like they do in the wild. In the article, “Do Animals Lose in Zoos” they state that, “Polar bears have been seen swimming around in circles, parrots have groomed themselves until they have lost their feathers, and big cats have been seen endlessly pacing around.” I have seen animals on Animal Planet, Wild Kratts, and National …show more content…
They barely have enough room for themselves.In the article,”Do Animals Lose in Zoos?”, it states that animals are “confined in small spaces” and “it has a negative impact on on the animal behavior.” In my life, I have gone into some very enclosed spaces, and they were very uncomfortable. You can barely move around and it’s just horrible. Sometimes I get claustrophobic. Now I know that it protects them from endangerment, but if we are going to take them from their wide open habitat then at least we could give them a nice, snug, and homey home instead of a cramped cage. Of course we have no worries about it because we have houses with rooms we don’t know what to do with, and I should