Animal Captivity Research Paper

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A unique relationship between animals and humans has established since the beginning of the domestication process. Societies began intermingling, in conjunction with animal life, by holding animals captive for various purposes, including, sustenance, companionship, and entertainment. Initially, there were many arguments about whether it is right to keep animals in captivity between many scientists from various fields. Currently, 1300 zoos around the world are facilitating animals and it has been observed that a small portion are providing insufficient amount of care for their inhabitants. Of these facilities, a majority of them are in business for-profit while endeavoring in research and development of knowledge needed to protect endangered …show more content…

The first ever zoos were usually designed for kings and queens’ collections, and symbolized their royal power and wealth. Until the time of modern zoo as people know today, animals never really benefited from the zoo. Recently, there have been many animal rights movements with the use of social media, and it has been shown that in many zoos, animal rights have been failed in serious cases. Many zoos and aquariums function exceptionally well and properly today. However, numbers of places are known for their poor service toward animals that they keep, animals are suffering from mental stress, various diseases, abusive treatment, and poor environmental …show more content…

Captive environments result in exceeding amounts of stress for animals, resulting in the reason why they tend to become prone to such diseases. In the wild, majority of animal species live separately, away from other species of animals and even humans. However, in the zoo setting, animals interact everyday with humans and different types of animals. Also, nutritional changes lead to various infections and diseases. In many cases, diseases and infections that affect animals are from human interaction, especially when zookeepers assist animals, they exchange their microbiomes, which can cause bacterial infections in animals. Stephen St C. Bostock said “Primates, especially apes, can catch tuberculosis and measles from humans”. Many animals are prone to such interaction, because in the wild, animals never engage with humans. By bringing animals close to humans, people risk serious issues, can lead to an unknown disease that people have no method to cure for example: In 1959 first man ever detected with HIV virus recorded, HIV virus is most likely a result of human close interaction with the chimpanzees in the West Africa (The Aid Institution. 2015) shows how dangerous human animal interaction can be. As a result of such risks, certain type of prevention should be taken. “Continuous and indiscriminant feeding, spitting, coughing

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