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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We’re Not Doing Animals Any Favors By Keeping Them in Zoos
- From PETA
By PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals
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Animals in zoos were mostly born in zoos so if we let them go into the wild they'd probably die. So either let them stay in zoos or die.
- vampsquest
February 13, 2009 12:50PM
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