Taronga Zoo

Zoos lie to you about the animals. Many zoos claim that the reason why they exist and continue to breed animals is to help protect endangered species, but that not true. In fact most animals in zoos aren't endangered, and those who are likely never be released into natural habitats. I think we shouldn't have zoos. Living without the important things to them can cause “zoochosis” which is a condition animals act strangely even hurt themselves from boredom or frustration. They don't get to do…

This month at the Cincinnati Zoo, a gorilla was shot by zoo personnel due to an aggressive behavior they thought might happen. A child climbed into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati zoo in Ohio. The three-year-old boy fell into the moat after climbing through the ropes and the fence of the enclosure. Onlookers were screaming and petrified as the gorilla drug the kid through the moat. Gorilla did this multiple times before being shot by zoo personals this took about 10 minutes to…

Rhino—extinct in the wild, existing in captivity (O’Connor). Despite existing only in zoos, critics wonder if this situation is truly acceptable. Those in favor of zoos would argue that absolutely, the species lives and can work towards re-establishment and conservation. On the other hand, critics say it prolongs an inevitable death, forcing the animal to spend the rest of its life depressed and alone. This argument has loomed over zoos’ existence from the dawn of their creation. So how does…

amounts of stress for them which in turn makes them ill; and when these animals harbor an illness, it can give it to humans as well. There have multiple cases where children have caught illnesses from going to petting zoos. Not only that, but a lot of baby animals are put into these petting zoos because they are typically perceived to be cuter. These baby animals need to to be nurtured by their mothers, not left by them to go sit by a fence to get hand-fed food that is not what they normally eat…

captive measures including zoos (Louis P. Cain and Dennis A. Meritt Jr.). Therefore, the survival of the animals will rely solely on the ability of the zoos to provide the care the endangered animals need to repopulate. But these conservation efforts will not work unless the enclosure of these animals are able to meet their needs. In a study done by G. B. Hubbard, R. E. Schmidt and K. C. Fletcher, neoplastic disease was evaluated in acquirements from the San Antonio Zoo during a 10-year period.…

Zoos are a place where animals are kept all day, instead of living in their own natural habitats. Animals are kept in different exhibits, where tourists can come and gawp at them. Some people wonder why zoos even exist when they, in a sense, keep the animals encaged and prevent them from living in their natural habitats. Zoos contain important rare species in their captivity and revolve around human entertainment, rather than the animals. Although zoos can seem like this is all they do, it is…

To Be Named: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams The title, The Glass Menagerie, is the first “name” that is encountered, and a menagerie is “A collection of wild animals in cages or enclosures, esp. one kept for exhibition, as in a zoo, etc. Also: a place or building in which such a collection is kept.”(OED). By this definition, the characters are like the wild animals as they are trapped together because of financial reasons, family bonds, and because they are stuck in Tom’s memory. By…

(National Geographic, 2015). In the wild, African elephants typically travel long distances and can travel up to 19-37 miles per day (Zoocheck Canada, 2015). The amount of distance they travel usually depends on availability of food. Even though at the zoo the elephants will be well fed they still need to engage in regular exercise to maintain a healthy state and to ward off boredom. Boredom in elephants can often lead to a variety of behavioral problems with the most common being…

Ankerman talks a lot about about their life and the animals in the zoo, there is not as much about the war itself that I wished but other than that it was a great read. Ackerman is a great writer and she has a mass of great scientific knowledge about the animal kingdom, which makes her ability to relate to this story of “The Zookeeper's Wife.” Her ability to create a very poetic, emotional and a vulnerable book is very clear: “...war plays havoc with sensory memories as the sheer intensity…

being stranded in the middle of the ocean, and questioning his religious beliefs. The tale opens with the backstory of Piscine’s childhood. Piscine is a Hindu who goes to a Christian school- which is where he professes himself as Pi- and who lives at a zoo. Pi’s adolescence is filled with the fascination of more than one religion: Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam, but also the more scientific side of zoology, with the understanding of the dangerous animals that surround him and their workings.…