Cynthia Buchan (Edison) Maybe Zoos Are Bad, Maybe They Aren’t?

I understand your point Bradley George, about how these animals may never be able to live their lives out in the wild like they want to, but really if they are bred in the zoo and kept there year after year; do you honestly think they have any idea what life is like outside of their habitat which is naturally for some in the zoo? If they haven’t a clue what life is like on the outside how can they have such emotions and depression that you mention that we can do nothing about? I’m just asking, so please don’t think I like the fact that zoos do what they do because I too hate it just as much as you do. I would love to see animals born and raised in their natural enviornment just like you and I have, but what about the studies among so many different species that are done with the inhabitants within the zoos? Without such zoos and environmentalist studies wouldn’t there be a great number of animals that “are” on display, never be able to be put on display other than being a taxedermy statue!?! Without these numerous studies of their habitual behaviors, diets, animal to human contact behavioral observances, and breeding patterns wouldn’t alot of these species that are in zoos be extinct? I mean without our intermittance in helping to keep alot of these animals from becoming extinct, in a way are zoos doing the wrong thing? Should we as humans and a species of our own not interfere per say with nature’s course of action to extinct certain species whenever she may so desire? The world changes every day whether it’s for the benefit of the human species or another or maybe even for it’s own self preservation (existance) should we really be trying to alter any of that?

There are certain species that wouldn’t still be on this earth or in existance if it wasn’t for our interferance with nature’s efforts of destroying them; hince the preservationists in the zoos that are trying to breed the less populated. Is that such a great thing to save all the species we can considering that there are plenty or at least a great number of species still popping up that we’ve never known about? Scientists are discovering many different new species especially in the great world of the ocean and yet we are also preserving the ones that are on their way out. Creating and preserving such an excess of different animals to inhabit this earth while at the same time the human population from what I understand is booming! All this kind of creates a smaller and smaller comfortable living space between humans and animals that mind you have been on this earth way longer than we have as humans.

Just take a look around, southwest Florida is a great example. I’m only 21 and have lived in Naples, FL my entire life. I remember when county road 951 in Naples had a dozen “Panther Crossing” signs posted along each side of the “two lane” road that it used to be, that as most know no longer exists on almost all the roads in Naples now. I watched this road and many others explode into highways and some so much bigger. Those “Panther Crossing” signs have slowly been taken down in most areas of this road because of the development surrounding this now highway has grown so much, the panthers have been forced to relocate. Now, from what I understand they were sure as shit here in southwest Florida before we were, right? So, how would you like to be relocated just because there isn’t any safe place to raise your children (baby panthers) anymore. Oh wait, that’s already happening for alot of people; moving to smaller cities and urban areas just to get away from all the “conjestion” and crime!

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