Zoochosis In The Zoo

This leads to many concerns from the public on the physical and mental impacts of captivity on the wild animals. This essay examines the advantages and disadvantages of zoos to lead us to a possible conclusion whether it is ethical to place animals in captivity. We will also examine if zoos have the best possible facilities to keep animals in captivity. Body One of the advantages of having zoos, is to provide protection to some animals that are endangered.

Zoos may be very necessary for endangered species. But, there are different ways how to save and continue endangered species, and every zoo have had choice how they do it. Some zoos are breeding endangered species trying to continue the species, but that is not right, because it leads to very complicated health issues. For example white tiger who are very rare animal, breeding requirements are that all white tigers parents must be white tigers too, to get only white tiger, and so are zoos breeding white tigers fathers with their daughters and mothers with their sons. But some zoos again are preserving and studying endangered species in captivity to save endangered species in the wild.

Their reason was that the animal’s food was too expensive, so they couldn’t afford it (Carr,2012). In addition, the animals also suffer from medical conditions and usually the zoos won’t bring them to vets or treat them, instead they would let them die (Wild Animals Do Not Make Good Pets, 2016). In an article in 2010, an undercover investigator filmed what he saw at the Tweddle Farm Zoo in England. In the zoo he found dead untreated animals left in their cages and when he took their rabbits to the vet he found that most of them had infections because they weren’t cared for (“10 facts about zoos”, 2010). Finally, wild animals that are in zoos get beaten and aren’t taken care of.

Lastly, animals are getting a disease called Zoochosis. After reading this essay You can be the judge if zoos are helpful or harmful to animals. First, zoos are harmful to animals because zoos are not giving animals a healthy diet. In the article Zoos The Historical Debate it states, “Red Pandas died after ingesting rat poison. I can 't imagine how they found the rat poison.

One example is that some animals can get a disease called zoochosis and it is shocking what zoos will do when trying to hide it. For instance, “As Dr Keith Lindsay, a biologist with more than 30 years of experience in elephant research and conservation, has said, these are symptoms of “pathological, stereotypical behaviour that is common with disturbed animals in captivity, but which is never seen in the wild”. There are also cases of animals being given antidepressants to hide their unhappiness from visitors. In 2015 Auckland Zoo euthanised a gibbon, Iwani, because he was “severely depressed” and the zoo admitted they could not meet his welfare needs. ”(An unnatural environment)This is significant because it shows that when zoos commit wrongs and take problems into their own hands it most often ends up worse.

Animals our taken from their natural habitats and locked up in small spaces, the small spaces, the concrete floors and the unnatural social groupings are slowly driving the elephants insane while their feet and bodies deteriorate before our eyes.” such as an “ Asian elephant in the wild may roam freely over a range of 150,000 acres the show consists of just two acres of walkable ground subdivided into five smaller yards – not nearly enough room for the three resident elephants, Billy, Tina,

Through time, zoos have been a great place to go see some of your favorite animals. But let me ask you, would you like to be stuck in a cage all day with nothing to do and no space to walk around? I’m guessing your answer is no, then why should animals have to be cooped up in an enclosed cage all day everyday? Animals need room to climb, run, and roam. When an animal is enclosed it tends to have a change in behavior for example, Polar Bears have been observed swimming in circles.

Introduction Do you like zoos? Zoos are breeding many kinds of animals. We can enjoy seeing zoo animals, however, it may not be original appearances. These animals feel stressed by the unaccustomed environment in the zoo.

It 's clear that the living conditions that these animals are forced to live in are just plain unethical, but something even worse is the relationship between animals in captivity and a spike in their stress levels. “It 's irrefutable that many zoos drive animals insane -- and if that isn 't cruel, I don 't know what is” (Masci) For starters, SeaWorld is one of the most notorious places in the world accused of stressing out their animals. Since the tanks are so small the whales tend to get very stressed out, and some former workers even say that the whales seem to go psychotic. “ If you were on a bathtub for 25 years, don 't you think you get a little irritated, aggravated, maybe a little psychotic ” (“Blackfish”)? A clear example is when one of the

This usually causes extinction within that species, and researchers have decided to do something about it. Although endangered animals are born in the wild, they should be sheltered and protected in nature parks because it helps decrease the amount of extinctions, allows a better and healthier environment, and the animals are protected from predators and human hunters. Endangered animals are to be kept in zoos because it decreases the amount of extinctions. Human activities have affected animals living in the wild dramatically throughout history. Roads being built and

Every year, approximately three million pets in the United States are euthanized because no one wants to give them a home, or because they are homeless and shelters have run out of space for them (Weisbaum par. 3). Spaying and neutering is the simple solution to all of this. If all pet owners spayed and neutered their animals, there would be a very significant decrease in the population of stray animals running around and therefore fewer animals in shelters. In addition, the number of animals being euthanized each year would also decrease in numbers. Spaying and neutering is recommended by many surgical center owners such as Dr. Cathrine Darr, because it is much more humane than seeing unwanted dogs and cats die of starvation, get euthanized

Transport of monkeys is harsh, They are shoved into tiny crates and shipped without food or water many times. After being bought the animal will be moved in to cells and await the testing. They are out in isolation in tiny cages with no contact with other animals. Some of these animals self harm themselves and chew on their limbs. They don’t allow vets to treat them because it could get in the way of the animal testing.

Grevy’s zebras are know to have very large heads and a rounder ear. The difference between Grevy’s zebras and other zebras is that their appearance look a little more closer to how a mule would look like. Also they are a lot taller than the other zebras. On their belly it is completely the color of white.

Thousands of animals are killed every day, and hardly anybody's doing anything about it. In Seaworld they are making all their animals depressed and the enclosures are way too small. The same thing is happening in zoos. Dog fighting and animal abuse is also a huge problem that we need to fix as soon a possible. The things that people are doing to animals are just cruel and unfair we need to stop this right now.

The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast two article. The articles are “Zoos: Myth and Reality” by Rob Laidlaw and “ Zoos Connect Us to the Natural world” by Michael Hutchins. In Mr Laidlaw's article he believes that animals in zoos are mistreated and do not live up to the propaganda. In Mr Hutchins he believes that zoos are a good place for kids to learn and see exotic animals that you would not be able to see in your everyday lives. Laidlaw believes that the owner of the zoo do not live up to their own word.