While it seems that most people do not gain any concrete knowledge about animals or conservation from zoos, it is without a doubt that people do draw a closer connection to animals after visiting the zoo, whether or not that connection lasts for a long time. Since this is such a serious controversial issue with the main pro-captivity argument being the fact that visitors become educated from zoos, I believe more research especially data must be put into this subject in order to come up with a clearer answer.
In Clearing. Beckoff, M. In Live Science. In The Huffington Post. Montgomery, M. In One Green Planet. Zoos Those may become educated and fascinated by animals and go on to do great things for the animal kingdom. This question of educational impact has loomed over zoos and aquariums for decades. Our findings indicate that zoos and aquariums are right to tout their potential as sites for engagement with wildlife, although some of these attractions are clearly more effective than others.
In demonstrating the positive educational impacts that a zoo or aquarium visit can facilitate, this study goes a long way in answering those critics. The significant improvement in visitor biodiversity knowledge shows that zoos and aquariums can be important public providers of education that is also meaningful to global conservation initiatives, such as the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity. Nora the baby polar bear was recently born at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio.
The stressful and frustrating conditions they are kept in even result in mothers harming their young. Two examples of this include a mother polar bear eating her two young cubs in and an elephant trampling her newborn calf in Recently, a four-year-old boy fell into a gorilla enclose at the Cincinnati Zoo.
A week earlier, a reportedly mentally ill man entered a lion enclosure in a zoo in Chile. In these two cases, the animals paid the price. Two lions were shot dead to protect the man and Harambe the gorilla was also shot and killed by zoo employees. This was the third human fatality at the park recently, with a young boy and a park employee also killed by a tiger and an elephant respectively in recent years. Clearly, keeping dangerous wild animals confined and frustrated so that humans can see them up close is not only cruel to the animals, it can also cause injuries and death to visitors.
Seeing caged animals teaches us nothing about their natural behaviors and threats they face in the wild, nor does it help conserve species in any way. We must keep speaking out against the cruelty of zoos. Please never visit a zoo or any facility that keeps animals captive for profit. Check out these resources to find other ways to learn about wild animals and help protect their best interests:.
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Learn how your comment data is processed. What nonsense; so many mistakes in this article! Zoo animals are born in captivity, like dogs and cats. How come it is acceptable to keep cats indoors their whole life. How about dogs and cats living in blocks of flats?
The only time the dog goes outside is on a leash.
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