Pros And Cons Of Keeping Animals In Captivity

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Imagine a child in small cage, getting shown off as an object. “The child gets fed only 3 times a day”because research shows that all they need to survive, when they act up they are refused food a punishment. How would the child feel, how would they act. Putting animals in zoos is wrong. Zoos destroy animals way of life , not giving them the proper care that they need, and animals have been proven to be dangerous in captivity. One of the reasons why zoos should not keep animals in captivity is because they can become dangerous. While a trainer was walking by a killer whale, her foot slipped into the water and a killer whale grabbed her ponytail and pulled her into the tank, and drown her,In the movie blackfish it says “What’s so outrageous …show more content…
Keeping animals in captivity is dangerous. The second reason why zoos should not keep animals in captivity is because it destroys their way of life. When zoos breed an animal in captivity animals can never return into the wild because they have gotten used to not hunting for food and not building their own shelter. According to occupy theory List of pros and cons of Zoo it state that“animals that are born in zoos and confined to their boundaries their whole life never get to see their natural habitat, and never get to live life like they should be living it.” When zoo’s take an animal out of the wild what kind of an effect do it have on animals? “animals that are confined to the zoo suffer from negative psychological effects due to the confinement.” When zoos take an animal out of there habitat its taking away their space. It doesn’t really matter how good the facilities of the zoo are, or how much space the animal has for itself, it will still won’t be comparable in any way to the freedom they would have in the wild.¨ Keeping animal in captivity is wrong because it is destroying the life of the