Zoos (Advantages and disadvantages)

Nowadays, it’s really common that people go to zoos in order to see some exotic animals they don’t see normally. These places, as most things in life, may have some advantages but several drowbacks too.

On the one hand, as positive things, we can mention zoos bring to us the possibility of knowing more about all the animal breeds and their habitat. We can see the lifestyle of animals which can be only found a lot far from us. That is wonderful especially for people who loves nature but have not the opportunity to travel to exotic places.

In addition, it must be mentioned that zoos help to conserve certain species because they  control endangered animals and take part in the labour of facing their extinction.

Nevertheless, on the other hand, one of the worst things of breeding animals in captivity is that they are not used to living in a zoo, it doesn’t matter if zoos count with natural enclousures which are extremely similar to their natural habitat, it’s not their ‘’house’’.

Moreover, most of the zoo animals are not domestic so we do not know how they are going to act with people all around them. Therefore, zoo animals may have behavioural problems and this fact makes that they have to be put in locked cages.

In addition, wildest animals are trained to acquire a determined behaviour which it’s unnatural for them and sometimes it results in punishing aniamls to try to teach how to act.

In conclusion, for all the previous reasons, I think zoos are not really good if they are designed just to show animals as if they were in a circus but it is clear that some zoos are doing a really important labour to save endangered species in order not to loose them.