Why Do Zoos Should Not Be Legal

Ryan Yeung

Mrs. Zaidi

American Literature Period 4

12 October 2015

Zoos Should or Should not be legal All around the world, there are thousands of animals in the wild, they are enjoying their natural environment where animals do not need to be kept in a cage and let people interfere their habitat. According to the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, there are over 10,000 zoos worldwide. Which millions of animals are stuck in the cage where they cannot run in the wild like all animals suppose to be. This is why I strongly oppose keeping animals in the zoo and make zoos illegal. In regards to this reason, I will be stating different conditions of different zoos, and how animals are treated in there, moreover, I will be discussing

This example demonstrates that animals are kept in a captivity that does not have enough space for them run around like they can in the wild and the space the zoo gave them is simply not enough. This can lead back to my argument explaining why animals should not be kept in zoo as they cannot provide the nature that that wild can provide for

At the Dallas Zoo, after getting taunted by people throwing rocks at him, a gorilla named Jabari tried to escape by jumping over the walls and moats of his enclosure, it was shot by the police afterward. Sometime, zoos even offer drugs to animals as to calm their attitude. I know many people might not believe it, but animals have emotion just like us human, if we are trapped in a cage, we will be as upset as the animals, because our freedom are limited in just the captivity, that is why we cannot always keep an animal in a cage as they die And, in some cases, many zoos train animals to perform tricks as if they were in a circus. There are different trained sea animals, such as dolphins, sea lions. Some training even involve the use of electric goads. This makes me question why animals are forced to live in the zoo just as a tool to entertain people and make money out of it, and how can we selfishly hurt an animal just to make them stay in manner and perform what we want them to, this makes the animals no difference to a