On the contrary it is one of the most inhumane zoos in the world. The Bronx Zoo is known for its large space… and small enclosures. The Zoo is very large, boasting 265 square acres, but is known for its extremely small habitats for its animals, especially its elephants, ironically the largest animals there. The zoo has even put one of their elephants Happy, into solitary confinement for the rest of her life solely for the reason that she doesn't get along with the other two elephants at the zoo. That is no life for such an intelligent animal.
Retrieved October 30, 2011 Supporting Material: 1. Document: Individuals possessing exotic animals often attempt to change the nature of the animal rather than the nature of the care provided. Such tactics include confinement in small barren enclosures, chaining, beating “into submission,” or even painful mutilations, such as declawing and tooth removal. (Travers, W) 2. Document: In some cases there are problems for survival of a species in the wild, there have been instances where hobbyists have saved species when their habitats were destroyed.
They were accomplishing this, but through their limited knowledge of dinosaurs and their adaptive traits, the dinosaurs were able to adapt and reproduce despite being all female. InGen was then unable to control the population, which led to the park in an out of control downward spiral. Furthermore, InGen assumed that the dinosaurs would be like zoo animals and act passive and docile. The assumption that large, vicious animals like the Velociraptors and T-Rex would act like zoo animals is a ridiculous assumption. The animals we have in zoos now have been, for the most part,
Founding members of Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are groups of people that do not understand the origin of rodeo and its sensitivity to animal welfare issues. When something is not understood, it is commonly misconstrued. Rodeo is being protested against because the people of PETA and SHARK play on readers emotions. Emotions, especially “blind” ones, are strong enough to cause people to take action against organizations or activities about which they have no background information. If more people did not rely so much on emotions and relied more on intelligence, then problems like this would not arise.
They can’t mate and care for their young freely, they must eat only what man gives them, they don’t know how to defend themselves from their natural enemies, they can’t migrate. In short, animals are kept segregated in a limited and artificial space where they do not have the right to live as they could do in the wild. The space for them in a “modern zoo” or “bio-park” is not cages as such, but confined areas with vegetation, ponds and trees. This wider space could appear enough, but it is nothing compared to the vast natural territory available for a wild animal, in the presence of other wild animals, predators, prey or rivals. In most cases, this imprisonment causes irreversible damage to animals, resulting in them not being suitable to be re-introduced to their natural environment, because they don’t know how to survive there.
Supply and demand also plays a role in the overpopulation problem looming the United States. The want for that new puppy or kitten keeps the population growing. Dog and cat overpopulation is a major problem in the United States. According to the Humane Society of the United States (2009), “between six and eight million cats and dogs enter animal shelters each year.” With the many factors that contribute to the animal overpopulation, it is hard to pin point why it is so out of control (some do not believe there is an overpopulation problem), but one reason is that there are no laws that govern all the animal breeders that produce the abundance of animals in the United States. The United States still considers cats and dogs as property, not as a being, and humans continue to treat them like they can just be thrown out.
Crucial topics that are hurting our animals today is a hard topic to capture on a piece of paper. Having one thing in common two articles, can differ but still be very similar. Two different articles with different authors provide a reader with exceptional writing, final published articles, techniques, and a great detail of emotion behind their story. Leslie Kaufman’s article, Date Night at the Zoo if Rare Species Play Along gives the reader facts, and a different perspective on endangered species and how they could affect us in today’s society in comparison to Verlyn Klinkenborg’s article Last One gives the side of endangered species with what the laws were supposed to help them stop disappearing. But as time passes, the Acts that were passed started to be like a battleground for those animals.
An environmental theory that has come about because of the issues of treating animals as people has been whether or not the animals kept in captivity will face the loss of their habitat, will face the detrimental effects of global warming with no way to be rescued and also may be targeted by hunters. “Others worry about animals themselves. Steve Feldman, spokesman for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, says that keeping and breeding animals in captivity is sometimes the only way to safeguard a species. Opponents of captivity, he argues, too often ignore the reality of habitat loss, global warming, hunters, and poachers threatening species in the wild,” according to Berdik (2013). It is a very real possibility that by releasing an animal from captivity and essentially treating them as a human that the animal could face complete loss of their natural habitat and may end up extinct or near-extinct due to hunters targeting them.
Some may use this to claim that we worry too much about the welfare of animals, when in reality we should be focusing on the more important matters such as charities which help to support those suffering from injustice, war, and are in need of food and simple supplies in order to survive. The Donkey Sanctuary is an example of a charity which raises money to help injured and neglected donkeys around the world. They are equally important as any other animal on the planet, however, they are not on the verge of extinction, and apart from the work which they have been bred to do for their owners, these animals don’t contribute majorly to society. Whilst a portion of the money raised for this specific organisation goes to help these animals, there are children in countries such as Africa, dying from hunger and diseases which could be cured by simple medication, which the people there frankly cannot afford. These children could have been our future; however there are those who choose to support charities such as ‘donkey sanctuary’ rather than charities which directly deliver the aid and education needed and prevent an early end to a child’s life, a human, again as I emphasised earlier, our own species.
The 1200 largest zoos have about 1 million animals captive. There are about 3000 different species kept in them and 619 million people visit these zoos each year. I surveyed my class to see whether they were for or against animals being kept in captivity. The results of the survey were that 22 students agreed but 16 disagreed (some students said both). The History of Zoos The first zoo recorded in history was created by Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt in 1500 BC.