Importance Of Animals In Captivity

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One of my favorite quotes by Jane Goodall is "The voice of the natural world would be, Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it than when you start interfering." Animals that live under human care are in captivity. Captivity can be used as a generalizing term to describe the keeping of either domesticated animals (livestock and pets) or wild animals. Throughout the world, there are wild animals are forced to spend their lives behind bars just to entertain the public. Although most people believe that education plays a very important role in zoo's, musuems, circuses and aquariums. Some people are not aware of the stomach turning treatment …show more content…
They have an extremely difficult time adapting to a new environment that they have no former experience of it. Chimpanzees, for example, are placed among trees so that they can swing and search for food. Even with the best intentions of zoos, museums, circuses and aquariums, these facilities cannot supply the ideal environment for every animal. Recreating the natural environment for elephants is very difficult. For instance, zebras and giraffes are naturally built to run miles across a plain but it would be quite challenging to do so in a limited amount of space. Captive animals live in poor conditions. Living condition for these animals seems to be dreary. They are cramped in small, mucky, barren enclosures. Moreover, some visitors actually abuses animals by throwing harmful objects, screaming at them and so on. This is a serious negative effect on animals. such as their self-confidence and comfort in the environment itself. Aside from this, they cannot enjoy their much-needed privacy which causes Zoochosis. This term is used to describe the stereotypical behavior of animals in captivity. Stereotypic behavior is defined as a repetitive, invariant behavior pattern with no obvious goal or …show more content…
Do they get their right to privacy? Are they able to interact with other if their own species? If you answered yes to all of these questions then you are clearly not aware of the situations these animals face on a daily basis. Take Toledo Zoo in Ohio for example. A sloth bear was starved to death after zoo officials locked her up to hibernate without food or water. They didn't know that her species doesn't hibernate. At the Cleveland Zoo, there was a kangaroo who had to be euthanized after being struck by a train running through the exhibit. There was a four-year-old girl Siberian Tiger at the San Francisco Zoo critically endangered. There was a group of kids throwing rocks and roared at her, she managed to leap out and attacked one of the them. Police officers shot her to death. Also, at the Dallas Zoo, a gorilla was killed after escaping from an "award-winning"exhibit. This shows you that exhibitions have failed the animals that they suppose to protect and
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