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Stay in the cage! @Aventus I would choose the Freedom

I agree with you completely!

its called a care home when you get old

You saw what happened when they got in the cage with them and you want to care for them in the wild hahaha. Good luck.

just want to add they do care for animals in the wild too, there are also countless animals been re-released back into the wild from zoo's but some animals are so rare that you can risk a hunter getting to them, not all animals in the zoo are endagered but i know the zoo back from where i used to live took on animals that had been captured illagally as infants who didnt know how to live in the wild, some who are too injured to ever be able to return, sure they are in cages but we give them the best life we can there is a safari park near me too those animals have lots of space. as for the corperate side of things, good luck looking after these animals without money

Have fun with your tranq gun.

they rescue them from hunters, save them from captivity, they are born into the zoo's they are decendents of animals caught in the wild. very few are now taken from the wild for the sole purpose of going into the zoo, budu please go do some research

animals / humans

Maybe 20 years ago, most zoo's (in the US atleast) trade around animals because they breed them there or they get them from animal sanctuaries (michigan my home state has a very large croc/alligator sanctuary and they help heal the animals then dole them out to zoos for them to have a new home). Zoo's very rarely go into the bush to find animals, they only do that with very hard to find animals or animals that don't breed well in captivity.

Lions breed incredibly well in captivity -_-

Do you know how much that would cost?

A day pass to the detroit zoo is about $50 I think that more than pays for it in the long run.

We spend about $718 billion++++ on defense.
So, why not spend a little bit of money.. for the Wild Animals eh?

Budu i said go do some research. Hunting does not mean killing, people trade animals alive as well as dead. I'm not claiming all zoo's are the same im sure in countries that don't have strict rules they might do wrong, but in places like Europe, Canada, America ETC rules are tight. Now as for flying injured animals abroad ever thought of the idea of specialists? as a human you would fly to go see a specialist right? Now 90% of the animals would not survive in the wild compared from living in a zoo, in most cases they become too used to been near humans one of the reasons its dangerous to release a lot of these animals, imagine if they were not scared of humans and wonder into a village? they are dangerous!! (i am on about lions and such). Though some can be re-released i don't know all the details so wont talk too much on this subject.

before we go on please do research look up

Zoo's serve a purpose, like prisons, care homes, mental homes. only difference is we enjoy seeing animals so they can raise money from that. But keep in mind i am by no means claiming keeping animals needlessly in captivity is right, but we do in some cases do it for humans if the need arises so you can hardly argue superiority based on this.

So you are saying zoos take from the wild...just via proxy..OK so we agree



This doesn't take away the fact the poor animals are incarcerated against their will so not sure why this was mentioned...



Any sick animal that is worth flying to see a specialist is equally deserving of the specialist flying to see it...And I don't mind the animal flying to see some specialist as long as its flown back home and released...just like you and me would expect..



So the answer for animals being too familiar with people is to get them even more familiar with people within a zoo environment? Wow...I wonder what the guy in the video being mauled thinks about this.... And also 90% of these animals were doing just fine before we gained the notion of locking them up...



I had to facepalm this one... Likening a zoo's purpopse to a prison as if all the animals in a zoo committed some sort of crime....Likening a zoo to a care/mental home like animals asked for our intervention...



What we enjoy is exerting/imposing control...It feels good to see criminals behind bars and it feels good to see mental people not roaming our streets and old people who can't help themselves wondering about as well....and we do make money from all of it same as the animals in zoos...profit is the bottom line at the end of the day...and that's the real purpose..



So since we do it to ourselves its OK for animals? Wow... Neither the people nor the animals that are being confined wants it so I don't know how you're coming up with your line of thought

Pointless argument is pointless.

Out of curiosity, do you eat meat?

single minded fool, i'm at least trying to copulate a discussion based on this rather then single mindedly sticking to the idea that zoo's do good. I am trying to understand and address your points some of which i agree with but not all. If you cant be arsed to form a real response don't respond at all. but allow me to address everything in manner you have.

That doesn't count, steaks grow on trees.

Some of them were doing good, other ones not so good, that's why they went extinct. And I do understand where you're coming from. Yes, they deserve to live in the wild and everything, but do you really think that just banning the poaching will stop the poachers?

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I think that like 99% of the meat that every one of us eats comes from animals in captivity.

Wild animals need their wild habitats.. "their home" Being born in a zoo is like being born in prison. A zoo doesn't simulate their natural habitat and it's not a practical place for baby animals to be in. Well, how do you differentiate between what's good for one animal versus what's good for the entire species?