Why Do Animals Go Mentally Insane

Have you ever wondered what happens to animals in zoos, aquariums, and circuses after closing hour? People spend hundreds of dollars coming to these facilities with their families as a “fun” trip. People of the world are contributing to these animals facilities without even knowing what really happens to these animals behind closed doors. Animals are just being treated as props and not as living animals, and it is about time people realize this and make a change. I believe all zoos, aquariums, and circuses should be shut down, because the living conditions are atrocious, humans can go insane in these condition therefore so can animals, and last but certainly not least forcing animals to do such bizarre “tricks” is wrong and unsafe.
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Everyday thousands of animals are going mentally insane from the conditions of these animals facilities. All animals have feelings and emotions, just as humans Wente states, “elephants are capable of complex thought and deep feeling, and that the emotional attachments they form with one another may rival our own”. These animals all have the same feelings as us humans, but many people don’t see it as that. As I said early in the text, animals in the circus are kept in small cramped cages. The monkeys even have a chain around there neck, because when they get distressed they throw themselves against the cage in hopes of getting out. “The monkey’s can possibly choke and or hang themselves (PETA). Humans face depressions and anxiety all the time, so therefore so can animals. Some animals realize more than what people think they do, “An infant elephant was rejected by her mother and died of an overwhelming infection” (Wente). The infant elephant had no clue why the mother was abandoning her, and probably felt depressed that he or she had to go through that alone and pass away without the mother by her