Denver Zoo

Have you ever visited a zoo? Perhaps you enjoyed seeing a variety of wildlife without fearing the danger of your life? Or perhaps, instead, you wondered the happiness of the animal in its new environment? As long as humans have been on Earth, we’ve found that our progress was not altered by the wellbeing of other animals. We’ve often destroyed their environments and domesticated them beyond the point of no return, sometimes hunting them to the point of extinction. Now we’ve tried to halter our…

You’re in a zoo and you see animals and you think this question many times over and over again, “are zoos really good for animals”. People around the United States wonder if zoos are really good for animals and what they do to take care for animals. Many people believe that zoos are good for animals. For one thing zoos take care for animals.In the article Behind the Invisible bars it tells us that zoos give animals food and they also give them shelter.That proves that zoos takes care for…

Zoos cannot offer the space wild animals need. Imagine yourself not having everything you need to survive. Animals are getting taken from their natural habitats and families to be held in captivity. This makes their lives worse little does everyone know they can’t live the same and make a living. Zoos provide unnatural habitats for the animals. Animals are naturally born and bred to live and die in their natural wilderness habitats. Zoos pose several risks that affect animals mentally…

Hiss! As the Burmese Python slithers through the Marsh.The presence of the Burmese Python is changing the Everglades drastically.These snakes are changing the Everglades drastically as people get them as a pet and then don’t want them anymore so they release them into the wild, Most species are going extinct or near extinct because the pythons don’t have a natural predator so they eat and shrink the population of their food, and shrinking the population one Python at a time. Do you think that…

Humans over the years have taken a great interest in these animals because of that and one way to learn about these animals is going to a local zoo to see how these animals live, act and behave on a day to day basic and also give insight as to where humans get certain behavioral traits. On the 18th of February I had the privilege to visit the Oakland zoo, and while I was there able to observe to different primate species and learn more about their day to day lives and also observe what captivity…

(The Wildcat Sanctuary). These breeders keep these animal in tiny filthily cages without the proper diet and without any veterinary care. The breeders often do not care who they are selling these tigers and lions to. They often sell to fur farms and zoos at live auctions. During the auction the…

"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other." (Davis BrainyQuote.com) "Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education."(Davis, BrainyQuote.com) These two quotes, both by the Afro-American civil-right activist, philosopher, human scientist and author Angela…

Geographic isolation is a form and one of the components that lead to reproductive isolation that refers to a population of animals, plants, or other organisms that are separated from combining genes with other organisms of the same species. This kind of isolation can have resulted from either a coincidence or an accident. The main components of geographical isolation are isolation by distance, isolation by separation, isolation by barriers, and isolation by an event. One of the main examples…

violence and brutality for little reason. These animals live in substandard conditions where having the freedom of choice for anything is a prerogative and not a right. Hundreds of thousands of animals if not millions are kept in zoos alone, with 5000 being just in Canadian zoos. Humans…

should live in any type of captivity. Elephants are meant to live where they did way before we were even on this planet. We decided to come into their home and destroy it, but the few people who care take them out of their homes into captivity. Yes some Zoos release the animals when they are ready to go back into the wild, but most of them just do it for the money. They do so they can get money from people seeing the animals. Have you ever thought about how bored the animals that are in their…