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    The oldest evidence of zoos in human society can be traced back to 3500 BCE. The first ever zoos were usually designed for kings and queens’ collections‚ and symbolized their royal power and wealth. Until the time of modern zoos‚ as people know today‚ animals never really benefited. Recently‚ there have been many animal rights movements with the use of social media‚ and it has been shown that in many zoos‚ animal rights have been failed in serious cases. Many zoos and aquariums function exceptionally

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    condition that comes naturally or is one that has to be learned. There are two emotional difficulties which are linked to these types of conditioning. They are called phobias and addictions. Once these behaviors are reinforced anymore‚ it will lead to extinction. Classical conditioning is a procedure by which a previously neutral stimulus comes to elicit a response after it is paired with a stimulus that automatically elicits that response‚ the first type of learning to be systematically studied (Kowalski

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    realize what is happening to our wildlife population. For example‚ “Over the past 40 years alone‚ nearly 52 percent of the world’s wildlife have been wiped out of existence.”("10 Shocking Facts About How the Illegal Wildlife Trade Drives Species Extinction." One Green Planet. May. 22‚ 2016). Some species that are being killed by this terrible act include‚ but are not excluded to elephants‚ tigers‚ sharks‚ rhinos‚ and gorillas. We need to be the voice for these poor animals by putting an end to poaching

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    Animal Rights "What is man without the beast? If the beast were gone‚ man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beast soon happens to man" (Chief Seattle). While much has been done to protect animals‚ it is nowhere near what needs to be done to secure their inhabitance on earth and give them their rights. Animals have nerves so they can feel pain and they do suffer so is it right to put them through that by experimenting on them. Additionally if more of the world

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    institution for animal conservation. The three main reasons they present are prevention of species extinction‚ captive breeding‚ and successfully reintroducing animals into the wild. I will also provide the respective counter-arguments‚ which suggest that zoos do not contribute positively to the animal conservation movement. The first and most broad argument is that zoos contribute to preventing the extinction of a species. This claim is based on the concept that zoos keep endangered animals safe and

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    distinct to birds today” (Lee‚ Nash‚ and Dyke 2014). For example the hip socket‚ the claws‚ the wings‚ and the inherited able to fly. The Archaeopteryx lived in the Jurassic Era. That eventually ended in extinction. “The Cretaceous Tertiary or K-T extinction‚ which was a mass extinction of the animals and plant species that were on Earth that occurred over million years ago. This served as conclusion of the Cretaceous period” (Alvarez‚ Alvarez‚ Asaro‚ and Michel).

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    Rachel Newell Walter Zeller International Relations November 18‚2013 Loss of Biodiversity David Ehrenfeld says in his book Biodiversity “The value of biological diversity tells us a great deal about why biological diversity is in trouble”(212). People tend to over look the importance of biodiversity. Without it we would lose a lot of the resources that we use for important and everyday things. One example is that a lot of medicines come from plants‚ and the more plants we have on the planet

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    The Zoo and Its Benefits Zoos bring human kind closer to wild life. Though‚ sometimes that means taking the animal out of its natural habitat. Some animals have lost most of their habitat and are on the verge of extinction. In this way‚ the zoo helps the animals rather than using them as a form of human entertainment. Zoos also allow humans to study different kinds of animals more closely. Some zoos on the other hand manipulate the animals to acquire as much revenue as possible rather than

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    Endangered Species By: Jennifer Petley There are currently only 30 individual Amur leopards left in the world‚ the hawksbill turtle has been deemed “critically endangered”‚ the black-footed ferret who was once thought to be globally extinct has only a population of 1000‚ the black rhino was said to be “doomed to disappear from the face of the earth” in 1961‚ and the Saola deer has an estimated population of a few hundred at a maximum‚ or possibly only a few dozen at a minimum. There are many

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    walking around just like any other day‚ and you don’t come across a single person. Have they all died? What has the world come to? Friends and family are just disappearing? Is the quote “If I was the last person on Earth” funny anymore? This is called extinction. Thousands of animals are threatened to become extinct. So that is why today I’m persuading you all to want to help protect endangered species. a) Endangered- species that are likely to become extinct. b) Threatened- Species that are likely to

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