Do you like zoos? The ones with the cute baby lions and stuff? Well I don't, I find them disgusting. They're unnatural, and cruel and can cause the animals a great deal of stress. In my attempt to convince you that this is the truth, I shall bring forth my arguments on this topic. I will be specifically using lions in my examples throughout, however, my examples can be compared to most other animals in captivity.
First of all, keeping animals in captivity is unnatural. It's smoke and mirrors people, IT'S A LIE! The animals are more bored than a 6-year-old kid on a Sunday at church. Have you ever seen lions at the zoo? What were they doing? Exactly! All they do is sit around waiting for their pre-slaughtered Halal-certified piece of beef, chicken, or lamb. There's no hunting, foraging, or roaming for a lion or any animal in captivity for that matter; it's unnatural and doesn't require any skill whatsoever. They don't even get to chase their prey! They just lie around in their man-made cave/rocks and sleep.
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Second of all, it's cruel. Would you like to stay cooped up in a 50 by 50-meter box for the rest of your life? No of course not, so why should they? In the wild, lions can roam free with their pride and a wide variety of other animals. They have to fight for supremacy, but in captivity, they play a game of 'Dip, Dip' to decide who is the leader of the pride.
You're probably saying: ''But Kade they live longer in captivity!'
And to that, I say shut up. Yeah lions may live longer in captivity but some animals don't and those extra years for a lion are just prolonging the stress and fear; they probably want to die!
My final reason is stress. Animals in captivity suffer from all kinds of things, but stress is probably the most predominant. Stress is easily caused in zoos by the size of their enclosures, other animals, and unwanted human interactions. I mean could you imagine being a meerkat and hearing a lion roar only 50 meters away? The worst part is the meerkat can't even flee! The same goes for other animals. Human interaction is obviously a trigger for animals. They are probably terrified! How would you like it if some random guy or girl (or other) came up and picked you up off your feet and started stroking your neck? I know, weird. Did you know, that animals in zoos suffer from stress so often, that the condition has its own name? It's called Zoochosis. Zoochosis is where an animal shows a repeated behavior that has no function or purpose. An example of this is when you see an animal pacing around the boundaries of its enclosure for hours on end. The thing is, it's completely avoidable. You know how? Don't put animals in zoos in the first place!
Conclusion
I believe that keeping animals in captivity is an absolute outrage. No enclosure can compare to the freedom of the wild, and humans don't have the right to capture, cage, and breed wild animals. As I have mentioned, captured and zoo bread animals suffer a great deal both physically and mentally. The fact that most animals wouldn't survive in their natural environment after living in captivity for some time, just shows how much they suffer and change. Some people might argue that zoos teach kids to love animals but I don't think this is true. Kids will always love animals no matter what environment they are in. I mean no kid has ever seen a dinosaur but lots of kids still love them.
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