Human zoo

In order to show emotion surely you must feel and have emotions, must you not? For instance, if you were to show empathy towards another human it would be declared that you can feel emotion as a consequence of having emotions, would it not? So why is this not that the case regarding animals’ emotions? As Flintoff states, animals show empathy, joy, fear, grief; the list is endless ‘they have a very rich ensemble of emotions’; why is this ignored by many? Out of convenience? Or perhaps because…

Everyone has watched either a movie or a television show that at some point they put a person or animal into a machine and it makes a clone of them. Cloning humans is illegal to do as of now, but cloning animals is happening all over the world. Everyone has different opinions about cloning animals. In the future cloning animals could help us have enough diary and meat products and could keep the prices down on animal products and it could also save rare wildlife that are almost extinct. The…

Exotic Animals, NO NO! RAWR! The idea of a exotic animal like a lion may sound cool, but you might end up in the lion’s stomach! Currently many people keep exotic animals. Is this right; NO! People should not be able to keep exotic animals because exotic animals are wild. We should not keep them, in captivity. Secondly, they are very dangerous. Lastly, we cannot provide everything they need to live like in the wild. Ok, fine I will admit it. Keeping exotic animals are cool, but think about…

We visited the Zoo Miami and we were able to meet with a male giraffe call “Bongo” and three female giraffe call “Mia, Sara and princess Buttercup”. The Latin name for giraffe is Camelopardalis, meaning camel marked like a leopard (Animal Corner). An interesting fact that we learn while visit the zoo is male giraffe are referred as “bulls” and female giraffes are referred as “cows”. Some distinguishing characteristics about the giraffe are its extremely long neck and legs. Giraffes have medium…

When Ishmael discusses his background, he discusses the three ways that he was held captive: a zoo, a carnival, and a cage. When Ishmael is teaching the narrator, he touches base on the concept of humans being held captives by society. As I read the novel, I started to question my choices in life and see if they were influenced by society. The most important thing I learned in this novel is that humans and animals are both held in captivity. Although Ishmael and the narrator are influenced…

Anything for Profit In a world full of wrongdoing, Sharon Matola, a citizen of Belize who owns a zoo, fights to protect the well being of Belizean communities from destructive forces. In The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, by Bruce Barcott, the small country of Belize faces environmental devastation due to the greed of companies and the government. In the early 1990s, the Belizean government and Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) proposed to build a controversial dam on the Macal River, to…

In Bryan Sykes book, The Seven Daughters of Eve, he recalls the experiences he faced and obstacles he overcame while piecing together the ancestral history of Europe. The meaning of the title of his book comes from the discovery that ninety-five percent of Europeans can trace their ancestry back to seven different woman. In order to do this, the mitochondrial DNA must correspond with that of one of the seven women: Ursula, Xenia, Helena, Velda, Tara, Katrine or Jasmine. Mitochondrial DNA,…

explore the ways in which humans identify moral agency and how it affects their treatment of other beings. I will make the argument that the treatment of others based on one’s interpretation of their moral agency is arbitrary and wrong. To begin I will start with a discussion of what characteristics moral agency are comprised of and what it means to humans, followed by an analysis of how these attributes are manifested in different beings and how it affects their treatment by humans,…

What is war? “Another Way to Die” is a short story by Haruki Murakami. The story takes place during one of the last days of World War Two in the Hsin-ching zoo located in Japanese-occupied China. Murakami wrote about a day of a Japanese veterinarian, Lieutenant, and his soldiers. Murakami shows how war makes people take actions they would have never taken in their life. Murakami helps the reader understand the type of person the veterinarian is by writing about the strong belief the veterinarian…

Scruton believes the moral status animals are in three separate groups: pets, animals reared for our needs, and creatures of the wild. Animals should be let be and used for human use. “If all animals are persons, then there is no longer a problem as to how we should treat them.” Therefore, if animals were to be humans, than they would have rights as a person in the world, but they do not have rights and duties like everyone else does. He writes on how animals should be treated as the way they…