The Evil's of the ZOO.

Did you know that Zoos Breed and Kill Animals for "Enrichment"?

"At a bear park in Bern, Switzerland, two European brown bear cubs may be killed if no other zoo will take them in. They're being evicted in 18 months because, at the age of two, their mom will reject them. That's normally when they'd wander off to find their own territory, but being captive-bred, new territory just means another enclosure or cage where people will buy tickets to gawk at them. But if none of those are available, they'll be put down." 

let's put this into prospective for you:  Humans playing with life and death isn't being "responsible." We're not talking about animals who are suffering and need to be euthanized, these are healthy animals who are being brought into the unnatural world of zoos as a form of "enrichment" for other captive animals, and then discarded when no longer needed. Can you imagine if humans did this? Imagine high school Home Economics, if teens were given real babies instead of eggs or sacks of flour to take care of, and then the babies were just dumped or "put down" when the lesson was over. It's absurd.

and this is just one example....

At the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, you can see three for the price of one in their elephant exhibit. Bamboo, Chai and Watoto suffer from chronic foot and joint injuries, and display neurotic behavior like swaying, bobbing their heads, and pacing.All three elephants were born in the wild, but now they're confined to prison cells. I'm not saying that to be dramatic — now that we've hit the cold weather months, the elephants will spend 16 to 17 hours a day locked up in their indoor stalls, which are the equivalent of less space than the prisoners of Alcatraz had.

This raises the question of what's the point of zoos? With ongoing behavioral problems among zoo animals and breeding programs that just lead to death, the arguments for education and conservation have followed logic out the window.

I have never been a fan of Zoo's. The animals always look unhappy and hot but this just adds to my frustration. It absolutely drives me crazy that people treat animal this way, and think its okay. Its OUR JOB to use OUR voices to protect them. People need to not be ignorant to these subjects and education themselves before making their own decisions. I can only hope you take this issue seriously and think twice before heading to the zoo.

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MORE INFORMATION: 

http://news.change.org/stories/zoos-breed-and-kill-animals-for-enrichment

http://news.change.org/stories/zoo-celebrates-birth-of-endangered-piglets-then-kills-them

http://news.change.org/stories/spaceless-in-seattle-making-the-case-for-woodland-park-zoos-elephants

http://news.change.org/stories/in-defense-of-animals-ranks-10-worst-zoos-for-elephants