Are Zoos Prisons for Animals?
Everyone loves a good trip to the zoo. It’s fun for everyone in the family, but you don’t realize how miserable the animals are within these habitat structures. An article from PETA, states that keeping an animal within zoo walls is keeping a human within a prison and people pay to see them. To make it even worse some people who visit these zoos antagonize the animals. Taking animals out of their home just so people are allowed to look at them for a couple of seconds and then have some kids abuse an animal causing it to freak out is just unethical.
http://www.peta.org.uk/
Within a zoo there are hundreds of different species that people can pay to see. Most of these creatures are behind bars or are in habitats not suitable living quarters for them. What we don’t see is how miserable these animals are. Some of the world is attempting to create world peace, but how can we at peace with each other when we aren’t at peace with the world around us. We abuse the animals we keep enclosed, “ a gorilla named Jabari tried to escape by jumping over the walls and moats of his enclosure, only to be fatally shot by police at the Dallas Zoo,” sources later learned that a group of kids were throwing rocks at the gorilla trying to antagonize it.
What we don’t see is how miserably these animals are. Making, “the animals imprisoned in zoos are sad and don’t want to be kept in artificial environments.” Having the animals inside enclosures that don’t simulate the freedom of the wild is bad for the animals health. At Sea World the Orcas they keep within those tiny pens which are like bathtubs to them when they swim in the wild they travel on average 100 miles a day, but when held at Sea World they can only swim up to the length of their pen on a daily exercise.
