TAILIEUCHUNG - Zoos and Animal Welfare Phần 2

Tham khảo tài liệu 'zoos and animal welfare phần 2', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Animals Suffer in Captivity The Captive Animals Protection Society Animals in zoos are forced to live in artificial stressful and boring conditions according to the Captive Animals Protection Society CAPS an organization that campaigns against keeping wild animals in captivity. Zoo enclosures rarely match each animal s natural environment forcing species that would travel hundreds of miles a day in the wild into small enclosures. Many zoo animals are so bored and unhappy that they exhibit stereotypical behaviors including needless pacing swaying rocking and self-mutilation. In addition important social relationships between animals are destroyed as zoos trade or sell animals. According to the CAPS wild animals need to live where they can exhibit natural behaviors in the wild. Worldwide there are probably more than 10 000 zoos with hundreds of thousands of animals held captive. Zoos are a relic of a bygone age a Victorian concept which as our knowledge of the animal kingdom grows becomes even less palatable. An increasing number of people are concerned about keeping wild animals captive. So zoos claim they are on a greater mission The Captive Animals Protection Society Sad Eyes and Empty Lives The Reality of Zoos 2006. Reproduced by permission. 12 than simple entertainment for conservation education and research. Zoos now favour terms like wildlife park or even sanctuary . The Captive Animals Protection Society CAPS is totally opposed to the incarceration of animals and believes that zoos misinform rather than educate and further divert funds from positive conservation. Animals remain threatened or are even driven to extinction whilst precious resources are drained away on expensive high-profile breeding projects with no serious hope of success. Sad Eyes and Empty Lives In the wild animals react to their surroundings avoiding predators seeking food and interacting with others of their species doing what they have evolved for. Consequently even

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