Although myriads of people believe that zoo does not have any positive purposes of buidling it due to certain reasons, such as visitors giving stresses to the animals by throwing foods to them, I strongly disagree with a lot of people who thinks like that. Personally, I believe that there are quite of lot of positive functions of zoo that has great impacts on people living today's society. Zoo has the following practical functions among many: provides opportunity for students to study animals and protects the endangered species.
First, I would say that providing opportunity to students to study animals is one of the functions that zoos (zoo 는 복수를 어떻게 쓰나요?) perform. In large zoos, like the ones in Seoul, Korea or one in California, they have a lot of distinctive animals, from ones that you see all the times via TV, like elephants or giraffes, to the really special ones that you can't even imagine. Students who visit those places learn a lot of animals living there and themselves as well. For instance, I had a friend who was not interested in animals at all went to a zoo for a field trip. He learned a lot about the animals there from the tour guide from a cicerone there. He started to realize what he is really interested in and what he really wants to do for his occupations later. As a result, he became a famous zoologist and currently researching on animals behavior at different areas.
Not only that, zoo protects endangered animals with perfect conditions for living. As I mentioned earlier in the introduction, there are quite a lof of people who claims that animals captured get stressed too much, so zoo has more harmful factors for caught animals. However, they do not know the full behind story yet. Zoo provides the animals with perfect conditions to live. They even make some areas as a desert or as a North Pole for penguins. Not only that, workers at the zoo provides every single animals with different types of food. I saw it on TV once that they even provide medicines. When it comes to the reproduction period, the living condition can't be better. I would say that it is the most ideal place for animals to live during the reproduction period, because they spend a lot of time caring about them.
As a conclusion, zoo might have a negative factors like stress. However, positive functions exists more and covers up the negative ones. Because zoo provides the future dream for the students, as I said, I strongly disagree with the statement that zoo does not have any practical functions. |