Bronx Zoo

him or her and shower him or her with love, which affects the elephant’s mental state for years to come (Thurman 355). Furthermore, an elephant’s happiness also depends on the way it is treated by humans, because that affects its own feelings. The Bronx Zoo “would phase out its elephant exhibit on social – behavioral grounds – an acknowledgement of a new awareness of the elephant’s very particular sensibility and needs (Siebert 364). Elephants cannot be kept in captivity and confinement as that…

were sent to be shown in exhibits as if they were animals, or even less than animals. In one such exhibit the africans were fed candy and faced indigestion. Additionally “Ota Benga, a pygmy from the Congo was displayed in the monkey house of the Bronx Zoo in september 1906… visitors ogled at his teeth (advertised to be) for devouring human flesh.(pg.176)” Ota committed suicide 10 years after bin rescued from his exhibit. The slaves in the Congo sang terribly depressing songs about their lives…

beautiful painting; that is what I love about my family. To start off the becoming of me, mother already had two children from previous relationships; Tiffany and John, both seven years apart. A year after a miscarriage due to chemicals at the Bronx Zoo in New York where my mother worked, my parents decided to try…