▶ Your Answer : The lecturer argues that financially unstable zoo have negative effects on animals such as mistreat to animals , artificial environment, and limited space etc., while the reading argues that zoo has positive effects. To begin with, the lecturer says that zoos like zoo in San diego, as they are financially stable, is capable to breed animals but many zoos can not afford to breed animals. So, animals in that kind of zoo can be mistreated because of disease, lack of food and crowded environment. However, the reading says zoos can be educational and has positive effects to human as it can give human first-hand experience. Moreover, the professor says that cages that animals lives in are normally small to live, and research done by scientists might be harmful to animals, while the reading says that it isn't needed for scientists to track the wild animals in fields, long-term study can be done. Finally, the professor dismisses the reading's claim that zoos can protect and breed endangered species, as they have vetenerians, no-harmful forth and predator by suggesting that it is difficult, or unable to breed endangered animals in captivity as zoos normally not only limited space to breed many kinds of animals, but also can not keep the genetic diversity that leads to weaken the animal's traits. To sum up, the lecture argues that zoos cannot enrich the animal's lives as they don't have ability to do, while the reading argues that zoos have possitive effects on both animals and human. |