Is there a humane way to keep animals in confinement so people can appreciate and learn about nature?

By bringing people and animals together, zoos educate the public and foster an appreciation of the other species. Zoos save endangered species by bringing them into a safe environment, where they are protected from poachers, habitat loss, starvation, and predators.

But a zoo isn't always the safest place for animals. Remember harambe. A kid fell into his enclosure and he got shot. So if we don't put animals in zoo's we could prevent that from happening again.

Harambe was a once-in-a-blue-moon incident.

How does it have to prove the point of how is not protective for the animals? Do you have any proof about one thing about how the zoo have dangerous things for children?

I think both of you are right. We need zoos, but we also need to limit the animals in zoos. I say only put endangered species and endangered individual animals in zoos. So if you see a giraffe in Africa that's been injured, take it too a zoo, then release it back to the wild when it's healed, but don't pick out animals just to put them in zoos

This is a difficult question. Zoos and aquaria rescue many animals every year and protect them from being potential food every day. That said, if the animals are depressed in there, it may be best for them to be in the wild.

Aquariums rock!

Yeah they do lol

I agree with you. We need zoos, but we need to limit it too

The way I see it is the animals have traded freedom for security. And with zoos improving over the years along with wildlife parks opening up, more options become available

Trading freedom for security is my biggest fear.

That’s the issue as well

Yeah, though the other person has a point

I don’t care. It’s not like they’re being tortured and displayed in fights or anything.

yeah and being confined into a small space with people looking at you all day is so much better

Unironically yes

I do not like the idea of zoos, though admittedly, I enjoyed many hours visiting them when I was younger. But having grown up, I realize placing animals in artificial, limited-space settings is cruel. The exception I accept is for species whose numbers face extinction due to human activity. It behooves us to help these creatures recoup their numbers -but with as much space and as little exploitation for our entertainment as possible.

It's hard to say. A zoo is a kind imprisonment which is never a good thing, at the same time zoos are improving over time trying more and more to seek the balance between visitor's satisfaction and animal welfare.

The point is that zoos do play an important role in education. The only way to truly learn about animals is by meeting them, and a zoo makes that possible in a relatively safe way (if you've heard of the Bokito incident in the Netherlands, you know it's never 100% safe and that incidents can still happen, especially when you provoke animals, which was that case in the Bokito incident, but overall, yeah).
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokito_(gorilla) )

Zoos also play a more and more important role in animal care in the world and the protection of endangered species.

Zoos themselves are also faced with this question themselves. People who work there and especially the caretakers of the animals do this out of a great love for animals, and they are therefore well aware of the situation the animals are in. Zoos are improving a lot on this particular field. There is also more and more recognition that animals do have a mind and conscience and they too are vulnerable to stress and depression.In the past they thought all animals merely acted by instinct and that humans were the only really sentient species (shows how arrogant we are), and looking at the zoos of the past I guess that shows a little. Now that we know better we can see the attitude change as well in the way zoos are designed.

Ultimately the wild is always the best place for them, however zoos do something important and the nasty truth is that some species are only still in existence thanks to zoos.

Therefore this is one of those questions I cannot give a definite answer to.

the zoos where the animals are in a space that mimics their natural habitat is fine, but not the ones that are just in cages

It's still not fine.

Species on the verge of extinction should definitely be kept in zoos for a chance to safely reproduce

On one hand, in the wild the animals dont live as long. But they do get to do what they want, when they want to and be free.
Zoos very confining. They aren't free to move around as much.
there's also no way you can release a zoo animal into the wild because they dont know how to live like that. I think wildlife reserves are the way to go. They can do what they need, and people keep an eye on them. Keeping them healthy.

I agree 99 percent, the other 1 percent is that zoos can be animal hospitals, and animals need those

Agreed.
But they also cant pick all animals up and drop them into a reserve. They need to get used to that, so they dont go crazy

Yeah. We’ve come to an agreement

I f**king love zoos, but I think the answer is no. It is cruel to confine animals to cages/small areas. They did not commit any crime, so why confine them? Furthermore, they don't understand why they are being confined and it probabyl confuses the shit out of them.

No. They deserve to be in their home in the wild not be kept on display for us

True, but some endangered species need to be protected from HUMAN hunters, and zoos provide a good animal hospital. So I say zoos should be more of a safe haven than a public attraction

Or just put animals that are in risk of human hunters like elephants

Yeah, I guess that's what I meant by endangered individuals

They should not even be no were for us to display they should be in the wild. DOGS should be in the wild Cats monkeys horses and all. They weren't created for humans. What if in the future were on display and research for a different dominant species. We wouldn't like that at all. pretty sure all hell will break loose

no, let them take over the world like they used to

What?! They can't do that! Where did you know something from?

our earth should belong to the wild. everything was fine until humans came along and coused many problems

I was surprised to see a comment like this until I saw all the streams you follow.

Yeah i agree with him Even tho we love them Dogs should be in the wild hunting scavenging right now.

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What u mean why? there animals.

So?

they should be free thats so.

Dang it I didn’t underline the vegan one. That would have been a good one to underline.

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Some zoos keep endangered animals so they can repopulate safely and then release them back into the wild

Now that's good but if nature wanna remove them then let em go lol

I’m more of a bagel guy myself but yeah I like ch

Are you serious

What do you think would be going on rn if Dinosaurs didn't go extinct?

the death of dinosaurs gave rise to mammals

if a creature this day and age is dying out how do we know it isn't for a good cause?

Dude the animals are endangered because of people hunting them illegally and people destroying their homes.

O well in that case dude than save them but if there dying off naturally cause of predator hunting then don't intervene

I’m pretty sure they won’t die of to native predators but they probably will die off to foreign predators that people bring in.

something i feel like is were taking chickens and pigs for granted

What was the point of hthms conversation because I honestly forgot

What's That?

I think the grammar makes harder to understand but I’m pretty sure you’re trying to say we take them for granted because they’re not native but I don’t get what that has to do with foreign predators

Oh Foreign predators can some how adapt to find different places. It doesn't need a foreign predator to knock the ecosystem off track something as simple as a drought can.

What?

Please tell me u can understand that sentence.