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Some people think that it is cruel and
wrong to confine animals in zoos. They probably feel that zoos which are very different
from natural environment bring about the high level of stress to animals.
However, in my opinion, zoos serve useful function so I agree with operating
zoos. There are two reasons to support my idea as follows.
First of all, zoos provide children with
the opportunity to get an education about animals in person. Todays, with the
development of science and civilization, it is hard for children to watch
animals in person. Children just see and learn about them through books or
television which is not enough to explain them. However, in the zoos, children
can see the same animals and even touch and feed them. Spending with animals
might be a great experience and helpful to children educationally. For example,
when I was 13-year-old, my father took me to the zoos in my city. By the time,
I did not know well animals’ name and their appearance. However, after the
pressure time, I got to know how they look like and how they sound. I think the
experience was very useful and helpful time to me.
In addition, zoos have a function of
protecting endangered animals. It is obvious fact that there are many animals,
which have had a risk of extinction, in zoos. The people who work at zoos
provide a comfortable environment to animals by feeding them, caring about them
and even helping artificial incubation. Also, they try to give animals similar
surroundings with wilds as much as possible. Unless some animals were protected
by zoos, they would have been disappeared forever. For example, Siberian
Tiger has nearly died out in Korea, but many zoos take care of them in favorable
environment. As a consequence, zoos serve valuable function by providing
shelter to endangered species.
All in all, because of the reasons
mentioned above, I firmly believe that there are many advantages of zoos.
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