Prospect Park Zoo

has been many zoos in the past but did you know that recently scientist have found remains of a zoo in egypt. Many scientist believe that egypt had the very first zoo in 3500 bc and this zoo contain baboons, elephants, and hippos. Now Zoos have been around for a long time and it is amazing that we have just discover a zoo that is believed to exist in 3500 bc. The first few zoos that where well known started in the 1950s but during that time there weren't very many animals in zoos at the time…

will not know how to hunt and find food for it's self because it has always had a human to rely on for all of that. When a cub is in captivity, people can play with it, hold it, and pet it. But when the cub gets to big to cuddle then they, end up in zoos, circuses, and sent to Asia where they use the lions bones for medicine. some lions also end up in "canned hunts" where they are killed and used as trophies. We can solve these problems by not putting the lions in canned hunt. A canned hunt…

Before conducting my observations and research, I initially believed that captive primates would express less food and mating stressed as zoo keepers provide the proper amount of food and assign individuals mates as they come to reproductive ages. Although there are some supporting evidence, there is not a significant amount to conclude that my initial hypothesis and predictions are correct. What I initially believed just be a display of curiosity and interest from the Red-tailed guenon was…

such as diet, life expectancy, and behavior. Being an animal in captivity has its pros and cons when it's meal time. Animals scarf down food that is loaded with vitamins and minerals to keep their entire bodies healthy and strong. Employees at the zoo, or wherever it is the animal is being held captive, provide the animals food at certain times throughout the…

2016 at the Cincinnati Zoo, a young boy fell into a gorilla’s cage. The gorilla, Harambe, dragged the boy through the river in his pen. In attempt to help the child, the zoo considered tranquilizing Harambe, but it was not a realistic option. The drug would take a significant amount of time to affect the gorilla, and no one would be able to anticipate how Harambe would act. It could have caused the child to be in even greater danger. Therefore, Harambe was killed. Zoos are popular all around…

I think in the world we have today, an African Elephant would live longer because Asian elephants have to carry a lot of weight, with causes stress, depression, and arthritis. Also, the population of the African elephant has about 10 to 20x more living species. The elephants do not deserve to die or to be in captivity. Research has found that 40% of tourists of the top nationalities visiting said they had been or were planning to ride an elephant, so captive elephants in Thailand gave rides…

What really goes on behind the scenes of zoos? Are the animals healthy? Do they really, feel free? As seen in history, humans have destroyed habitats to the point where the animals native to that land are extinct. By building roads and polluting the environment the animals are dying off, creating an unbalance in the animal kingdom. Although zoos do a fantastic job, nothing compares to being free, because the animals forget how to survive in the wild, zoos have a negative effect on the animal’s…

pressing their faces to the glass and ogling while the antelopes pace around in circles over and over again. These are signs of stress from the conditions of zoos. There are many downfalls of living in zoos and some animals can never be released into the wild. Prohibiting zoos will benefit animals that cannot bear to be in any sort of captivity. Many zoos have small enclosures which are way too small for the animal and cause many problems. “Living in such confinement, elephants are prone to…

In the Cincinnati zoo a little boy with the age of three fell into the enclosure of the 17-year-old gorilla. Some argue that the Grillo was trying to save the child, while other argue that the gorilla was actually harming him. The gorilla, named Harambe, had to grabbed the child and dragged him across the moat. Many filmed as this was happening. In the exhibit the gorilla was an endangered lowland gorilla. There are many arguments as to what happened but the hulking ape was shot down regardless…

Wickins-Drazilovás article, “Zoo Animal Welfare” published to the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics in 2006, she discusses the criteria that zoos claim justifies the welfare of the animals and how this criterion is not satisfactory. Wickins-Drazilovás states, “Zoos often claim that having healthy, long-lived animals that reproduce is sufficient proof of good care. I believe that these three criteria have to be examined more closely and also that there are other important criteria…