that wild animals should not be kept in captivity?
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Wild Animals Should Not Be Kept In Captivity. ... These animals are to making them suffer unnecessarily, using them for entertainment and taking them away from their natural habitats. Whatever of the good intentions of the zoo-keepers, animals in zoos suffer. They are trapped in small spaces by cages and bars.
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Reasons why people think keeping animals in zoos is bad for their welfare: the animal is deprived of its natural habitat. the animal may not have enough room. ... although animals may live longer lives in zoos than in the wild, they may experience a lower quality of life.
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The people at the sanctuary usually keep the animal mainly because it can't go in the wild by itself, or just because because they want to study that animal, but sometimes they release it back into the wild. Another reason sanctuaries are better is because the animals often die prematurely in zoos.
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Reasons why people think keeping animals in zoos is bad for their welfare: the animal is deprived of its natural habitat. ... the animal is deprived of its natural social structure and companionship. the animal is forced into close proximity with other species and human beings which may be unnatural for it.
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The second reason animals should be kept in zoos is that they are safer in a zoo than if they were in the wild. In the wild, an animal could attack another animal and kill them. ... The third reason animals should be kept in captivity is because they entertain us.
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Zoos Are Too Small for Some Species, Biologists Report. Polar bears, lions, tigers, cheetahs and other wide-ranging carnivores do so poorly in captivity that zoos should either drastically improve their conditions or stop keeping them altogether, biologists from Oxford University report today in the journal Nature.
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Keeping wild animals as pets can be dangerous. ... Finding new homes for large, hard-to-handle animals can be difficult, if not impossible, particularly since most zoos are unable to accept them. You could get sick. Wild animals can carry diseases dangerous or fatal to humans.
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Some people think that animals should be kept in the zoo for their better living, while on the contrary, some say that animals should not be kept in cages, instead they should be kept free in natural habitat. ... On the contrary, in Zoos, animals can get a hospitable environment.
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Zoos and conservation But where a zoo is keeping animals in order to preserve a species that is under threat in the wild, and treats its animals in an appropriate way, then this is morally acceptable from the welfare point of view.
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They are a species of anteater and are critically endangered. Wild animals make very poor pets.
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Animal lovers with a penchant for exotic pets can now keep sloths, raccoons or even emus after the Government relaxed the regulations on owning wild animals. A total of 33 new species can now be owned without a licence after a review of the Dangerous Wild Animals Act deemed them not to be a risk to the public.
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Animals in the wild are endangered by human predators and shrinking habitats, and live short, dangerous lives. Circus animals receive food, shelter and veterinary care. ... Zoos stopped animal performances to distance themselves from circuses, but have reintroduced them because animals benefit from the stimulation.
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Some advocates for the keeping of exotic pets argued that the breeding of exotic pets in captivity is ideal and hence ought to be allowed because it helps to ensure future wild populations. ... Another motivating factor for exotic pet ownership is financial gains.
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DPIPWE Resource Management and Conservation general manager Colin Shepherd said most native mammal species, such as Tasmanian devils, were not permitted to be kept as pets. “Most of these species are not adapted to life as a domestic pets,” he said.
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Reasons why people think keeping animals in zoos is bad for their welfare: the animal is deprived of its natural habitat. the animal may not have enough room. ... animals bred in zoos may become imprinted on human beings rather than members of their own species - this prevents them fully experiencing their true identity.
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Zoos protect against a species going extinct. ... A good number of species only exist in captivity and still more only exist in the wild because they have been reintroduced from zoos, or the wild populations have been boosted by captive bred animals.
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Zoos and public aquariums have an important role to play in helping to reverse this trend. Although the aim of conservation must be to protect and restore habitats in the wild, thereby saving fish communities and individual species, captive conservation activities can provide important back‐up to this objective.