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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Should Animals be Kept in Zoos?
UnFair
anyone has the right to live independent life whether animals or human beings. So, in my opinion this is not fair. the animals should be free from any prison. consider if for 1 day you are put into jail or prison what you will feel. Definitely, you wish to come out as soon as possible. so as are the animals.
Please, protect the animals being make of fun
Muhammad Sajid
- Muhammad Sajid
August 7, 2008 10:11AM
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The Ritz or the Gutter
What would you prefer: 1) To be put up, free of charge in a 5 star hotel where there was free room service, no parasites, no predators or thugs to hunt you--where you had food , water and medical treatment
or 2) to be left out on the street in your natural habitat - no food, shelter or clothes.
- roguegrafix
May 30, 2009 3:51AM
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Think a minute
Consider the life long inmates in prisons . There are many now in prison that like it there, and are not comfortable in our "civilized" society . Consider the walls you put up around yourself, that keep you from the whole of the world. Is violence, starvation, and fear a part of your every day life? It is for most animals . Not for most animals in zoos though.
- Caracalover
November 14, 2009 10:02AM
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