Is Breeding Pandas In Captivity Worth It?

Throughout time, Zoos have become a more popular thing. Whether for entertainment, or amusement, many people often visit zoos.What they fail to realize is that zoos are far more harmful than they appear to be. Although zoos do a great job at slightly imitating the animals habitat, it is very different in many aspects. The breeding programs zoos offer are less successful than what is expected. A zoos main priority is not the animals.

Zoos do a very great job at placing animals in environments similar to their homes. Yet, it is nothing like their natural habitats. Animals such as but not limited to; lions, tigers, cheetahs, giraffes, and polar bears, are all given approximately one millionth the size of their original so called space. The fact

In zoos it is common to breed endangered animals. How generous of them. Although, the intentions are good the outcome is not always good. They do make endangered animals breed to the point of helping these endangered animals no longer be endangered. Then, they are released back into the wild. One of the world's famous panda-breeding program in San Diego, has been very costly and unsuccessful(Is Breeding Pandas in Captivity Worth It?). The goal for San Diego zoo keepers is to make pandas breed so they could send back those pandas to their natural habitat in the chinese forests, which hasn't happened. Instead, the zookeeper's just keep them in the zoo. Another thing is that zoo life does not prepare animals for the wild. For example, two lynxes were released into the wild in Colorado and they died of starvation, because even though the area was full of hares,they did not know because the lynx weren’t taught to catch their own pray. (Russell Smith) animals in the zoo get so used to zoo keepers feeding them, animals forget who they really are and the traits they often forget they are a predator(or) a prey. Even if they are sent back into to the wild and are no longer endangered, this still does not help, they become isolated and do not know how to interact in the wild. Birds mainly, have a specific song they use to communicate with each other in a certain area.(psmag.com) So, taking a bird

Well, that is wrong. If that was truly the case ZOOS WOULD NOT EXIST! Many of the animals at the zoo on display are placed on anti depressants. Oftentimes, animals who are “no longer of use” will be fed to other animals. In the Gaza zoo, white donkeys were drawn on to appear to look like zebras. This was done with the intention to attract more people(peta.org). The Gaza zoo might be one of the most infamous zoos. It was opened in 2010 and was basically a location where unwanted, or useless animals and things were sent to. Most of the animals in there were smuggled into the zoo since they were mainly stolen. In 2003 11 orphan elephants were sent to the San Diego Zoo and the Lowry Park Zoo because they believed the zoo would be a better home for them rather than their original homes in Africa. Moreover, within 2006 through 2009 Missouri’s Dickerson park zoo, handed over what was considered “surplus animals” to entities which seem very unsafe and questionable.(peta.org) One which included Buddy Jordan which is very well known for selling animals to hunting ranches, non accredited zoos, and excotic animal breeders. Seems very shady. New Jersey May Cape Zoo once sold two giraffes to was supposedly an animal broker who eventually sold them off to a traveling circus. Now, selling these defenseless animals is not the only thing zoos do. Once, the Toledo Zoo locked up