my grandaughter will not visit a zoo because she was told zoos are harmful to there anamals, is this true?
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MARK say: Is this really your granddaughter asking because you do not mention her in this question: https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/in...
It is not a simple answer. Some zoos are just about making money and they do not care about their animals. In those zoos animals do suffer. There are zoos where the animals are well cared for. No zoo is, or can be, perfect because they can never completely replicate the animals’ natural habitats. For example, zoos with elephants may provide them with first rate care but cannot provide them with the huge area through which they would travel in the wild.
Unfortunately, natural habitats are being destroyed and fragmented plus we are harming animals in many other ways. As a consequence animal species are going extent. Whilst zoos are not perfect, cannot be perfect, and good zoos admit this, they are a means of preventing animals from going extinct.
Perhaps your granddaughter needs to be educated. I would guess she is an adolescent and they often see things in black and white and take up fashionable causes. Can she suggest better ways of conserving animals? Do not accept a simple yes or no or a simple answer but only accept a well-researched and well-explained answer. I say this because she may say in-situ conservation, but how is this done in the face of habitat lass, poaching, pollution, etc. Get her to visit a zoo and see the work they are doing and to learn more. Instead of her simply decrying all zoos why not change her focus to campaign about bad zoos.
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oikoσ say: Depends on the zoo. Roadside zoos, maybe. The big zoos do a fantastically good job of maintaining their animals, conserving them, and educating the public. Animals live longer in captivity and breed better.
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daniel g say: I see you know nothing of what zoos are really about.
Zoos offer animals the best treatment their finances will permit, even pampered compared to wild.
The best of food, enrichment, medical care, etc. They even go further with their breeding programs.
Across the board, this myth is about as false as can be
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Lara N say: I agree. Some mirror natural habitats but some don't. Some put animals in smaller cages or exhibits than they need. But some like the show zoo on animal planet and the new it's the irwins show on animal planet make it like their natural habitat and are saving wild animals from extinction and bad homes.
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dojeje say: yes and no, some animal it is some animals it is not because some animals cant be kept in zoos because some life less then they do in the wild and some life more then they do in the wild
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Pearl say: i dont think so, rnaybe you should take her sornewhere else
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Grundoon say: "Their"
And no, zoos are very caring places
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say: Yes, it is true of many zoos and many animals. Some zoos make a great effort to mirror the animals' natural habitat. They have space to move around and their prison cells are large and somewhat like a real forest, allowing them to roam. Others are horrors for the animals, nothing but a small imprisoning cage that prevents the animal from being the animal they were born to be. Such as monkeys. I've seen several of them caged in a 10' x 10' cage. Crowded, bare branches. Imagine yourself in a place like that for the rest or your life, crowded with other monkeys, compared to a jungle of freedom where they can swing from tree to tree and get away from monkeys they don't like. Giraffes and elephants don't have the space they need. It's a cruel world. Zoos are very cruel. I stopped going to them years ago, although I would like to see the San Diego Zoo some day, which is supposed to be a good one.
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D say: Wrong... They take care of animals - feed them, protect them from predators, have vets for them when they are sick.
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Norman say: their …… "F"
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GUY say: they seem to be safer
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Ben say: their, not there. Learn basic grammar. Is everyone here illiterate?
Many people believe that zoos are harmful to the animals they have.
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pearlmar say: It's not actually harmful but life is miserable for the animals who have to spend their entire lives in cages.
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