6. Zoos are connected to animal circuses
Links between zoos and circuses have long been utilised by entrepreneurs operating in a mutual back scratching environment. Animals that don’t fit the bill in terms of looking the part are often sent to circuses where they face a life of even more misery. Forced to perform through torture and starvation, these animals live even shorter lives that the animals left in the zoos. The link between zoos and circuses is something that zoos will always try to deny, but look a little closer and it is still there, alive and kicking in the twenty first century. If you oppose circuses, you should oppose zoos. Zoos Should Be Banned
7. Animals are trained to perform tricks
When animals don’t entertain the public simply because of the way they behave or the way they look, zoo owners have to think of another way to pull in the crowds and to attract the punter’s pennies. Training animals like sea lions and dolphins is the most obvious example of how animals are trained to perform tricks in captivity, and this goes against an agreement that many western zoos have drawn up where it is suggested that animals should be enjoyed for their intrinsic value, and not for the tricks they are forced to learn and perform. Just another name for a circus.
8. Animals are still taken from the wild
Whilst a lot of zoos claim to have healthy breeding programmes in operation, the fact is that animals don’t breed as readily and as successfully in captivity as they do in the wild. This means that many animals are still being captured from already vulnerable wild populations to be sent to zoos around the world. As many as 70% of elephants in zoos in the year 2012 had been captured in the wild. Many fauna rich African nations have reached agreements with Korea for the capture and supply of wild animals, proving that a supply and demand system is very much in operation.
9. Zoos don’t serve conservation
Despite boasting that they have breeding programmes in place designed to repopulate the wild, these claims are largely unsubstantiated. The majority of breeding that occurs in zoos is solely to ensure the re population of a captive population of animals. With the lower life expectancy that animals in zoos have, it is hardly a surprise that zoo owners concern themselves with looking after the longevity of their money maker. The fact is that release programmes are often unsuccessful, costly and difficult to oversee. This is added to by the fact that aside from publicity, there isn’t too much to be gained by the zoo.
10. Zoos fail education
If all else fails, which is clearly the case, zoos should at the very least be places where people can learn all about the animals of the world. You would expect information and signage to be abundant in every zoo in every part of the world. This is not the case at all. It is much easier to throw a few animals in the same cage than to research their origin and their nature thoroughly. Many zoos don’t even have the correct name of some of their captive species, never mind any further information about the animals. There really is no point. Zoos Should Be Banned.
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