Almost everyone, especially children, absolutely loves visiting the zoo. It is cost friendly compared to paying to see animals in the wild. People get to catch a glimpse of the exotic animals that he or she can only see on TV documentaries, or maybe dreamt of when their parents read them stories like The Jungle Book as a child. People’s eyes fill with excitement when they get to go see the lions, tigers, and bears. However, the animals are less than enthused. While I think that zoos are amazing for educational purposes, I believe that the animals truly suffer. There are multiple benefits from studying animals in captivity, the ability to donate money to fund and preserve the animals that live in the wild. Although, captive animals
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Animals use to have even less space than they do now. Their environments use to be basic, and easy to build being that they were made of cement with metal bars. The poor captive animals were not able to interact with their surroundings, which were detrimental to their health and caused stress. In most cases, animals stress goes unnoticed. An example of this would occur in the aquarium at the Chicago Zoo. The tiger stingray population decreased because of a malfunction in the water system, which caused low oxygen levels in the water. Similarly, a heating malfunction in the same aquarium occurred a few years prior and caused several stingray deaths (DNews “The Pros & Cons of Zoos”). There is more than just one topic of concern for captive animals. Problems like the three-dimensional morphological effects. As said in the article, Three-Dimensional Morphological Effects of Captivity, “Comparative morphologists tend to exclude captive animals from their research because of perceived distortion in these animals’ anatomy.” A reason that captive animals are distorted compared to wild animals is the difference in their diets. The diets that captive animals get in zoos are not structurally natural. Most zoos provide felids, a wild cat, with a diet of ground meat along with some vitamins
Animals use to have even less space than they do now. Their environments use to be basic, and easy to build being that they were made of cement with metal bars. The poor captive animals were not able to interact with their surroundings, which were detrimental to their health and caused stress. In most cases, animals stress goes unnoticed. An example of this would occur in the aquarium at the Chicago Zoo. The tiger stingray population decreased because of a malfunction in the water system, which caused low oxygen levels in the water. Similarly, a heating malfunction in the same aquarium occurred a few years prior and caused several stingray deaths (DNews “The Pros & Cons of Zoos”). There is more than just one topic of concern for captive animals. Problems like the three-dimensional morphological effects. As said in the article, Three-Dimensional Morphological Effects of Captivity, “Comparative morphologists tend to exclude captive animals from their research because of perceived distortion in these animals’ anatomy.” A reason that captive animals are distorted compared to wild animals is the difference in their diets. The diets that captive animals get in zoos are not structurally natural. Most zoos provide felids, a wild cat, with a diet of ground meat along with some vitamins