Are animals safer in zoos

Answer 1

In zoos they get treatments that they need. Food and safety from predator's

The Other Side:

In the wild. Where they are from. It's incredibly unhealthy to be locked up in a cage, some animals in captivity live shorter periods of time then animals that are in their natural habitat.

The wild. I have seen too many sad animals in captivity, and it seems they are too sad to even proceed in acting as their species does in the wild. They must remain wild, for I have also seen by my own eyes they die lonely and scared, unless sadly bred in captivity. Let these animals be wild, for they are much, much happier.

Answer

Animals should be kept in zoos because their safe from other animals!

Additional Info: The species, it's safety, and overall future population needs have to be considered when deciding where maybe the safest place for many wild exotic animals. The critically endangered, and endangered species need protection, breeding programs for reintroduction to the wild, and many species need, general observation, and study, so we might learn to aid them in their native habitat in the future. Also some species live longer in the zoo setting than in the wild, for instance the Polar Bear lives longer in the zoo than in the wild. But the Elephant usually lives longer in the wild than in the zoo, so that type of information needs to be considered when making decisions about where animals need to be. It may be that instead of putting the animals in the zoo for people to interact with, that the zoo should be designed with the animals welfare in mind only. Then design educational programs around the animals for people. For more details, see the sites listed below.

Moobobo's Answer

I once read an article about an Asian elephant named Calle. She was captured only one year old and spent more than three decades being traded between circuses, carnivals and zoos. She had a foot problems and degenerative joint disease that the zoo blamed on her time spent in the many circuses and carnivals. The true reason for the problem was that the zoo did not have enough space in the exhibit for the elephants to have full movement in their daily activities. The other surviving Asian elephant now has a similar condition .Calle was given a heavy dosage of drugs and given unnecessary treatments. If the zoo had put the elephant in a safe sanctuary she might still be living. The drugs used covered the illnesses so the public wouldn't notice. "Immediately send them to sanctuaries before it's too late." the Commission of Animals Control and Welfare warned after the elephant's death, but the zoo refused.

Animals need freedom. They need space and independence, to live in the wild and live their life without the humans.

Who do we think we are?

Destroying animal's habitats and then putting them in cages for the rest of their life. When I went to Thailand, I saw some baby gibbons. My tour guide told me that people shoot the mother gibbon, take the babies away and treat them badly. At day they are forced to be on show, so that tourists will give money. By night they're stuffed into tiny cages and not fed. At zoos, I admit, they are better. But it's still the same thing though, isn't it. Captured, put in a small habitat, and then just stand there so people can look at them. It's not right.

Answer 2

It's better for an animal to be in a zoo than the wild, since the zoo provides a safer sanctuary for them, away from hunters. Similarly, if they got unwell then in the wild they would have no one to care for them, but in the zoo there will always a zoo keeper and vet. Those 2 reasons are the main examples of advantages of being in a zoo, but there are a few more of course, e.g. not having to find or fight for food, not having to look for a mating partner, etc...

There are of course some disadvantages, such as feeling like ur imprisoned, like trapped in a cage, etc

Answer 3

That depends. A wild animal, as I see it, is definitely better of in the wild. Most of us tend to think that wild animals will be happier off in a zoo, but, we are mistaken.Though animals are given food and shelter, in a zoo, they prefer to find their food and shelter themselves. A wild animal needs space and freedom. Though animals are safer and cared for in a zoo, they belong in the wild.They have been created in such a way that they can fend for themselves and need not depend on us humans. Lets take an example. A lion was born and has lived four years of his life in the wild, chasing deer and zebra , sleeping and drinking wherever he feels like. He is then captured and taken to a zoo. Do you think he can live in a cage or in an enclosure? Do you think he can adjust to living his life as a zookeeper wants him too? No,he cannot adjust to a cage or to a small patch of land in a zoo. You may think that he will gladly submit himself to a zoo keeper, but he will never fully trust a human. He was born free and wants to live life on his own terms.He needs his freedom......he needs to hunt his own food......he needs the wild, because he is from the wild and because the wild runs in his blood. Save the wild!!!

Answer 4

Actually I don't really have an opinian on that but it depends how you look. Some zoos (but not all) feed and take care of the animals really well. But in the wild, animals are really happy and healthy. How would you feel if you got locked into a cage where people came to look at you?

Answer 5

well animals are great in zoos because of the possibility to live longer and not have to hunt but in the wild they find others of they're type and have a lot more space. They also have the chance to bred more babies to increase the population.

Answer 6

zoos are like a prison for animals. some animals think that it is good to be in a zoo, because they get to meet new childrens,adults,teenagers and all kinds but most of all they feel protected, because in the wild, well the wild animals like lions, tigers, crows, and eagles eat the zebras, rabbits and all kind.In freedom the animals might get a chance of escaping away from wild animals.So in the wild,I think it is safe but not all safe of the wild animals.

Answer 7

Yes, animals are safer in zoos but they are trapped in cages which is cruel.

It must be much more exciting in the wild.

Answer 8

yes because there are poachers and killers out in this world .and they will get killed