All over the world‚ people visit zoos and circuses. People pay to see creatures of the wild up close and personal. They provide a great learning and bonding experience to families‚ couples‚ and friends. When you picture a zoo or circus‚ you imagine a sunny day filled with beautiful exotic animals and greasy‚ delicious food‚ but what are those animals really feeling and thinking behind their facade of fancy performances? Zoos and circuses are beneficial to humans because they create a money making
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The animals in the zoos are suffering‚ because the AWA requires only minimum standards of treatment for animals. The Animal Welfare Act is a law in the United States that regulates the treatment of animals in research‚ exhibition‚ transport‚ and by dealers. It was signed in as a law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966. (¨Legislative History¨)The AWA excludes animals like fish‚ reptiles‚ and other cold blooded animals. Also‚ it says that the animals have to be fed‚ watered‚ and provided shelter
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cause stress and severe emotional damage. A prime example of the effects captivity has on animals‚ is the shocking facts regarding elephants. Quite surprisingly‚ it has been proven that elephants in zoos fare much more poorly than those that live in the wild. It is the common belief that life in zoos is much safer due to the fact that food is provided and there are no predators‚ whereas animals in the wild have to fend for themselves. However for elephants this couldn’t be further from the truth
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Zoos have been around for a very long time‚ does that make them an old tradition or something wrong that is past its time and is no longer welcome in our more modern civilized society? There are many advocators that want to keep zoos around and others that say zoos are inhumane and wish to abolish them. Personally I agree with both sides in some perspectives. For one I think that zoos are an important part of culture and that should stay to educate future people about the importance of preserving
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they need. Many people think that zoos are preserving endangered species or subspecies‚ but in fact they are wrong. 95% of animals that are kept in zoos aren’t endangered. 97% of these animals aren’t part of the European Captive Breeding Programs‚ and less than 1% of endangered animals have been introduced back into the wild. It is no surprise that elephants don’t do well in zoos at all. The average lifespan of zoo elephants is about 16-18 years‚ while wild elephants
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5 What is crowdsourcing? How does the site Galaxy Zoo manage crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is the process of obtaining needed services‚ ideas‚ or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people‚ and especially from an online community‚ rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. While this definition from Merriam Webster is valid‚ a more specific definition is heavily debated. The process of crowdsourcing is often used to subdivide tedious work and has occurred successfully
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The plight of Manila Zoo’s elephant‚ Mali Mali‚ the 38-year-old female elephant‚ has been living in an enclosure in a small enclosure of Manila Zoo for thirty-four years. In 1979 Mali was given by the government of Sri Lanka to the Republic of the Philippines as a form of a gift between two nations. After three decades of captivity in a concrete enclosure‚ a new opportunity has opened for the lonely elephant to spend her remaining days in the wild. PETA Asia‚ along with other animal activists
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Over centuries‚ dating back to ancient Egypt‚ there have been hundreds of thousands of different variations of zoos (Fravel). Zoos “have entertained millions with exotic animals behind bars” and continue to do the same in the modern day and age of zoos (Fravel). However‚ wild animals are not meant to be domesticated. For decades there have been thousands of serious zoo related incidents resulting in threatening situations‚ critical injuries‚ and even death because the animal enclosures were not secured
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animals in such places as zoo and aquarium be clarified as preserving biodiversity? There are two sides to this issue. Main points that support the idea of keeping the animals in cages that often come up are zoos are able to provide protection and they can increase the population of those species who are endangered (Hurley‚ J). Some important points that are against the idea of encaging the animals include the animals develop abnormal behaviours and they believe that the zoos use the animals as an entertaining
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