Agree: "A zoo has no useful purpose." |
Movies demonstrate zoos to be something like a heaven where animals live happily together. Tigers and bears talk with delight, and snakes get in good relation with small mammals. Children have fun with those animals. However, that is totally an illusion. A zoo is actually harmful to the animals as well as children. From a zoo, children might learn bad insight about animals’ lives. A zoo leads the young to have misconception about the habitats of the animals or their practices of hunting. Kids should be taught that every creature on the Earth has its own life style. To illustrate, one day I asked my four-year-old son-in-law where bears live and how they feed. A surprising answer returned. He said bears live in the next-door zoo and they feed on the cracker thrown by observers. Watching the living toys in a zoo is not educationally beneficial if a child wants true knowledge about zoology. On top of that, maintaining a zoo takes too much out from the animals in it. The animals have to give up their natural freedom and wild instinct. Their breeding period is controlled by artificial schedule, and they lose inborn hunting skill. In fact, some baby tigers born in a zoo lacking of fighting skill have hard time to adapt to wild life. Moreover, their inclination for evolution, in the long run, is severely restricted in a zoo environment, since the natural selection does not function at all. Zoos are freezing the animals in their present state, preventing them from developing. To summarize, zoos play no positive role on both children and animals. Not only do they teach misleading illusions because children cannot see the real nature, but they also does harm to the animals by restraining the behaviors. I propose to make the whole natural environment as a big zoo. Small zoos play as jails to the living creatures, and as low quality school to the children. |