Sunday, March 11, 2007

ZOOS - is it really helping our animals...

This week, my group have started working on our documentary. I have think of this topic when one of my groupmate have started playing a joke saying, "To know the effects of land pollution on animals, we can put the fish in the trashcan and we can see instant effect." We all laugh so hard... because logically fishes will die if we place them there, even if the environment is clean but if it was placed not on its normal habitat, it will die naturally.

I began to think of animals not that are not on their normal habitat...such as those that are in zoos. The primary reason why animals are in zoos is because they are protected there and for our protection too.. They are also kept there so that we can easily see and study them... but there are also insights that keeping them in cages are also not good for them. For instance, there is a specie of eagle that needs to fly high and reach a certain peak before it will be able for that bird to lay eggs... but if encage in zoos that specie of eagle will not be able to procreate... and it is said that animals are there to protect them but by enclosing them in cages we also alter their way of life.

Animals too have the right to live as freely as they can. Imagine that you are an endangered animal, will it be allright to be inside a cage because you're safe there? well if I am that animal, I will prefer to live the way I want to be even if the environment is not safe... and come to think of it we, humans are also the reason why these animals are not safe in their normal environment...

If the reason they are there is to prevent attacks of wild animals, I beleived that it will not be enough reason why they should be enclosed in cages. Because in fact these animals are afraid of humans (like snakes). The reason why they attack is just to defend themselves; it maybe because of our mistakes and misdeeds.

Lastly, being in cages destroys the balance of nature. There should be a balance between those that eat and are eaten which of course will not happen in zoos. That is why in other countries animals are in safaris in which they can live their normal way of life and still be protected by us humans..

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