Zoo

Cameron Park Zoos’ history explains how the zoo started, and how it became a main attraction of Waco today. A small group of animals in the 1950s grew into the Cameron Park Zoo Central Texans know today. The small collection of animals was put together to educate visitors, as well as show real, live animals to the public of Central Texas. In 1955, wildlife volunteers displayed mammals and reptiles at the Heart O’Texas Fair. As a result, people started donating money in support of the formation…

The Lincoln Park Zoo has many conservation projects in-situ and ex-situ. One of their extensive programs is the Serengeti Health Initiative (SHI). This initiative was started in 2003 has a lot of facets that involve preservation, benefiting the local people, wildlife surveillance, design and evaluation of vaccination programs, and research on the relationships and interactions between wild animals, domestic animals, and humans. The location that they focus on is Serengeti, Tanzania. The reason…

Zoos help endangered species so they can survive in the wild.I know when I go to the zoo I see really endangered species and without zoos we would have some of the animals we see today extinct.What I am saying is that zoos should not be closed because they are responsible for keeping these animals alive.Overall, the zoos are keeping animals from facing extinction and helping animals who are having a hard time in the wild. My first reason is that zoos are…

Tullis, Paul. "When You Walk Into a Zoo, Are You Helping Animals or Hurting Them?" TakePart. N.p., 02 May 2014. Web. 16 May 2017. . Paul Tullis, an editor at TakePart and writer for the New York Times Magazine, tries to answer the question “When you walk into a zoo, are you helping animals or hurting them?” Tullis covers many different topics and stories throughout his article providing evidence that zoos are helping animals along with zoos not helping them. Tullis believes his…

Although uncommonly known today, human zoos were an abnormal phenomenon that unexpectedly got popular. They were swept under the rug by businessmen who flooded the headlines with other things to overshadow and hide the outbreak of hate against human zoos. People forgot about them and soon they were an unknown form of entertainment, especially after racial equality campaigns began to have some precedent. However, even before it became an equal rights problem, it was still controversial for its…

The article “After SeaWorld, a ‘Blackfish effect’ on circuses and zoos?” by Kelly Wallace has gotten a lot of people feeling mixed emotions. In this article it says, “the public has completely changed its opinion on exploiting and killing animals for entertainment.” In SeaWorld animals are being killed and parents are not ok with this. This is no longer fun and educational for their kids. SeaWorld has banned the use of the bullhook which is a tool that helps handle and train the elephants. This…

you ever realized how zoo animals live? Imagine seeing an elephant in the zoo just standing there doing nothing, but then in movies and pictures you see them always walking and playing just always doing something. They don't have that choice in the zoo. Animals should not be kept in zoos or in captivity because they don't have the life they would have in their natural habitat, they are not taken care of well and they are not happy. Animals don't have as much space in the zoo as they would in…

animals suffering from extreme stress and depression is increasing daily. Zoos teach people it is acceptable to interfere with animals in their natural habitat and continue to place them into captivity; depriving them of open space, herds, and control over their life. A large percentage of the animals living in zoos are captive bred, and are traded between zoos their entire life. Many people believe that the animals held in zoos are an endangered…

the world animals are deprived of the amazing life they could live in the wild. They are taken away from their families and natural environments to do tricks and be trapped in cages at the zoo and they are unhappy. Some critics may argue it is easier to keep animals alive when they are being monitored in a zoo or aquarium. These helpless animals are suffering physically and mentally due to their experiences and it must be stopped. To start, animals should not be taken away from their natural…

his Cincinnati zoo enclosure as he protected Isiah, a child that had fallen into his chamber. The panicked visitors screamed and shouted as they feared for Isiah’s life. Suddenly, a few men wielding hunting rifles appeared. Little did Harambe know, he was breathing his last breaths, and they would be in captivity. The men launched a barrage of bullets at Harambe as he fell to the ground. What did he do to deserve this? One thing’s for sure: Harambe would not have died if this zoo didn’t exist,…