A History of Riverbanks Zoo & Garden Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is one of the most successful mid-sized zoos in the United States. Since opening in April 1974‚ Riverbanks has won a number of awards for exhibit design‚ breeding programs and marketing efforts. Riverbanks attracts more than 850‚000 visitors each year and has a non-profit support society of more than 30‚000 memberships – amazing statistics for a zoo located in a city with a metropolitan population of less than 700‚000.
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touching movie‚ which Matt Damon starred in‚ We Bought a Zoo‚ directed by Cameron Crowe‚ Kelly Foster‚ the zookeeper‚ keeps her life busy in work so she doesn’t have to deal with her problems in life. First of all‚ Kelly is a divorced workaholic who would rather work than go out and have fun. Kelly “never goes out”(Crowe‚ xx) and stays at the zoo “every day”(Crowe‚ xx). While her friends go out on dates‚ Kelly devotes her life to the zoo and likes to being there and spending time with the animals
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enclosure size and total distance paced. This means that the tigers that lived in smaller spaces paced more than the tigers living in larger spaces. Tigers held in zoos are unable to move around as if they were in their natural living environment. This creates frustration for the tigers and leads to aggression. The small-enclosed living spaces in zoos lead tigers to suffer psychological disorders similar to those of humans. Tigers suffer from anxiety and depression due to the small living spaces. These effects
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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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In 2008 at the Singapore Zoo‚ three white Bengal tigers attacked and mauled a zoo cleaner‚ Nordin bin Mondongto‚ to death after the man walked through a moat surrounding their enclosure. Researchers asked themselves what would be the cause of these vicious behaviors being reported from many zoos across the globe‚ the answer being the harsh environment zoo animals are surrounded by. Many people are not aware of the harsh treatment the animals endure. Zoos‚ circuses‚ and famous attractions like SeaWorld
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After I read the articles: The Stripes Will Survive by: Jacqueline Adams‚ and The Zoos Go Wild by Nicholas Nirgiotis and Theodore Nirgiotis I realized how important zoos are to animals. Firstly in the article “The Stripes Will Survive” by Jacqueline Adams it says “Make sure that threatened and endangered animal species don’t disappear.” (Paragraph 4) There used to be one hundred thousand tigers roaming in the wild. Now about 5‚000 tigers live in the wild. The zoo’s breed these animals to make sure
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Park cannot be downgraded as a Sanctuary. Biosphere reserve People are allowed to live‚ own private land and carry on their traditional activities. (In the outer-zone) Ex-Situ biodiversity conservation (artificial home) • examples: seed banks‚ zoo‚ botanical gardens‚ aquariums Seed Banks • They store seeds at extremely low temperature and humidity. • Advantage: can save large variety of plant species in a very small space. Seed Banks : Problems • every seed has an expiry date‚ you cannot
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taking them to zoos and animal parks‚ animals do not deserve to be encaged and taken from their homes in this nature. The major problem with zoos is that the animals which live there are kept in enclosures that do not allow them to live their life in a natural way. No matter how big the animal enclosure is‚ or how much flora they place in the cages‚ no matter how beautiful they make the paintings on the wall‚ they do not compare to the natural habitat the animals were supposed to be. Zoo animals have
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