Tigers shouldn’t be kept in captivity. People aren’t aware of the amount of space tigers need and
how far they can travel. According to the Professor of Wildlife Conservation Robert John Young,
Tigers can roam for hundreds of miles and the comparison of space between living in captivity and
living in the wild is not even close. Imagine being kept in a small captivity with nothing to do, no
freedom, change in lifestyle, behavior, and spending most of their lives in captivity. In captivity tigers can develop abnormal behaviors. Tigers develop abnormal behaviors because
of the limited space enclosed and confined to a small area that they wouldn’t be able to do in the
wild like: run, swim, climb trees, …show more content…
Tigers shouldn’t spend their lives behind bars. They are confined to tiny spaces with nothing to do,
Life is intensely boring, freedom is absent as well as choice and control. According to the author
Susan McCarthy, Tigers don’t have freedom which makes life even harder. This demonstrates the
life of a tiger in captivity because they have no freedom and are locked up twenty four hours a
day.
Tigers are wild and capable of aggressive and fatal attacks. According to the Former professor of
ecology and evolutionary biology Mark Bekoff, (“ These animals are bored. They’re smart they’re
agile , they’re emotional and they’re working 24/7 to get out their prison because that’s what
They’re in: a prison cell.”- paragraph 3) Tigers really don’t like being locked up and prefer to be
free like the wild animals they are. At the San Francisco zoo there have been attacks on people and
that left to to wonder if the tiger was provoked and how it escaped its habitat. People should leave
The animals alone because they have been through enough and are very aggressive and will