Should zoos have endangered animals?

Question

yes or no with explanation thanks

Answer 1

Yes. So that people will know their existance on planet earth n how they look like. Coz there are some people nowdays don't know how to differenciate between goat and sheep.

Answer 2

No, It's too stressful. Better a wild animal park, let the public watch on TV.

Answer 3

No, endangered animals should be in their own habitat in the wild not in the zoos. Its hard for these endangered species to adapt themselves in man made habitat. In most cases, they seldom procreate when there are not in their natural environment. Procreation is the only way to ensure that they will not become extinct.

Answer 4

i think yes

but i believe they shud have very nice and nature habitats

i hate when i go ot a zoo and i see an animal pacing.

were i live in basel, they have an amazing amazing zoo. its completely natural, and lives the animal a lot of space.

i think they shud have endangered species becuase zoos help these animals have a chance of survival. without the presence of predators, hopefully these animals, overtime, can reproduce, and more of that speices can come!

Answer 5

zoos can be very good for endangered animals look at the condor. Without the zoos help we would have lost this bird. there are many animals that are in threat of becoming extinct. Without the zoos help it would happen much faster.

Answer 6

no beacause they can get killed either way remeber you cant change destiny they shouldnt be in cages they deserve freedom

Answer 7

Yes of course they should, along with other animals so that people can experience and observe them. Keeping them humanely is required in the US and giving them a habitat similar to their native land is smart and the only kind of zoo to support. Some countries have a dismal record and their zoos are not good for the animals. In the case of an endangered species, it's usually endangered because something happened to it's natural habitat so they can only survive with our help and that's easiest to provide in a zoo.

As for Kaiyah's claim that the rain forest will be gone by 2030 and the oceans dead by 2050 - you may want to get your crystal ball checked. You're wrong. Vast areas of Brazil's rain forest is now protected and used for renewable resources such as bamboo, nuts etc. The total is about 430 million acres under conservation today with overall deforestation reduced by 60% since 2002. And the oceans have never died and won't die now due to us. Don't listen to the fear-mongers who tell those tales, they're the same sort of idiots as the ones who claimed half the world's population would starve by 1980.

Answer 8

when they are all dead, where will you get more? The only safe place for many of these animals is the zoo. Otherwise people better start paying pochers not to shoot, or kill these animals

Answer 9

It depends on the effect it will have. I personally think that it would raise the awareness of visitors who might not have known about a particular endangered species before they visited the zoo. They may then, in the future, be careful with their actions on behalf of the endangered animal. Also, if there is a trend in keeping endangered species in zoos, more and more zoos will reproduce and conserve that species for display and promoting awareness. Keeping endangered species in zoos will therefore be beneficial for those species.

Answer 10

Absolutely not.  Endangered animals such as sea cows, eagles, brown bears, pandas, etc  should be kept and protected in their habitats or sanctuaries. Why? Because those places are where they were born, grew; and where they get food, etc. In other words, these are the places where they live freely and naturally.

Answer 11

Yes. The AZA has a species survival plan (SSP) for each species  that outlines how to keep various species going in a captive setting.  There have been animals that have been saved in zoos, such as oryxes and Mongolian ponies that were saved from extinction and are being introduced back into the wild. Other animals only exist in zoos, such as the Barbary lion. They thought the Barbary lion was extinct, and then they did some DNA studies and found there was a viable population distributed among European zoos. (One such zoo is in Dublin.) Many times, animals are at risk due to political instability. Zoos can preserve the animals until such time as the politics changes and the animals and people are safe. Zoos are a lot better than they used to be. Many zoos are enlarging the spaces for their animals and giving them changes in their day's routine (enrichment) to encourage more natural behavior and keep them from being bored. Really large animals like elephants are being moved out of zoos, where it is impractical to keep them on anything less than 5 acres, and sending them to sanctuaries.

Answer 12

If they are involved in an endangered species breeding program...yes.  If not for zoos the California Condor would now be extinct.

Answer 13

Yes, if the animal would be killed out in the wild from human doing and than forced  extinct.

However, I am not fond on animals being trapped in zoos. The natural habbitats for these aniamls are being torn down, polluted, and destroyed. I ask myself a larger question, how many animals will be extinct in 2030 with every tree in the rainforest destroyed?? With all the ocean life dying out around 2050??

Answer 14

I'm not a fan of keeping animals in cages.