yes
Zoos play a vital role in animal conservation. Zoos are not only a place to educate people about animals and what they needs, zoos also typically have breeding programs. They do their best to breed new generations of rare and endangered animals.
yes
to stop hunters killing them and to breed them.
because they help breed animals
Some zoos have animals just for show and they breed them there. Other zoos just have endangered animals: animals that are injured and cannot survive in the wild, babies that have been abandoned or separated from their parents or endangered species. But some zoos have a mixture of both... :)
the majority of zoos are bad for animals
Platypuses do not need to be in a zoo. They thrive in their native habitat, and they are not endangered. Zoos are not good places for platypuses as it is still rare for platypuses to breed in captivity.
In a certain way it is good because they protect animals that are endangered, and they also breed endangered animals so that there are more of those animals in the world. And its fun to look at animals that you would have to go far away to see in their natural habitat.
yes because in zoos they protect animals
Some people say "As our world is changing animals are becoming engendered, so in order to stop them from being extinct people breed and care for animals in zoos." But really it is because people are ignorant and can't let them live the life they want. Everything happens for a reason so if there ment to go they will if not they will continue living. Not in zoos.
That's kind of a biased way of phrasing the question. Some animals in some zoos do begin to exhibit behavioral disorders. Good zoos work hard to provide the animals with a comfortable, engaging environment to minimize the chances of this happening, but not all zoos are good zoos and some animals are more sensitive than others.
Zoos are helpful to animals and humans because the animals get good care. Humans are entertained and it allows us to do research on animals.