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For many people, the zoo is a source of childhood amazement and fond memories: swinging monkeys, laughing hyenas and growling tigers. Conservationists say zoos advance their educational and preservationist efforts, but others see zoos as prisons where innocent creatures are unjustly held captive. The next time your child asks you to take them to the zoo, what will your answer be?
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The Wild is No Animal's Paradise
Uh?
I appreciate the educational value of zoos, but at the same time, I cannot ever agree that instead of a beautiful tapestry stretching across a wall, we should be happy with individually sorted threads in a drawer.
By all means, keep some animals in zoos--but there's no way to introduce a carnivore from captivity to the wild without extensive reeducation that can take years, and our last hope for a species should not live in captivity. It's far better to devote energy to conservation in the first place than to look in an enclosure and say "he's happier in there."
- sharky
September 24, 2008 5:09PM
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