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If it is for breeding purposes and to save animals from extinction, it would be ok.
But, not so that people can oggle at them in their cages.
It is better to see animals in their natural environment. If you cant get to the Amozzan or Africa or Alaska well it would be a good idea to see some of Attenboroughs productions

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I think it is ok to keep animals in zoos as long as they're treated right.

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it is not fair to keep animals in zoo's they should be aloud run free in the wild!!! it is also not right to keep them in the circus!! IT IS ANIMAL CRUELTY!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yeah it is if the enclosures are large enough! Think of the fantastic breeding schemes and the educational side!

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I think its fine to keep animals in zoos as long as they are treated correctly but they shouldn't be kept there just to be glared at 24 7.

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I have a mixed view on this topic. I think that it is horrible to keep animals in cages/closed habitats. But i also think that it is improving the population of the animal and it is for their own statability.

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It depends whether they have enough space. I agree with endangered animals being bred and kept in suitable and safe enclosures, but being cooped up in a cage is unfair. How would you like it if someone put you in a stuffy cage and people came and stared at you?

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Definately NOT. Every living thing on this planet should be living free in its natural habbitat.

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definetly not

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yes
we need 2 see dem

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ya i think it is

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yeah cause they will eat us if they are left out

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i think safari parks are better as they're more open and the animals are all together, rather than in cages. it's good for animals that are becoming extinct.
i think it's alright if the animals have been bred in captivity and they don't know any different. capturing animals from the wild is definitely wrong. if they are bred in captivity, they should have a large enclosure so they can run around and get good excercise.

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i don,t nthink it is all they are doing is siting in a pen for the rest of there life it is sad

 no it is crul and in humane

i thinc it is crule and has no mening but sume entertanment

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On very limited circumstances if any. If that animal is injured and cannot survive on its own or if it’s almost extinct with the aim of letting the animals back into the wild (if possible) but when we keep them for our own amusements or for profit then its damage to our souls including those who ignore the wrong. Animals deserve freedom just like us so IMO Zoo's should be closed and pet doctor farms should be an alternative. There is enough documentaries and information to educate kids so I don't think Zoo's are required. I visited a Zoo recently with my 2 Kids and won't be going back every again. Certain animals are more suited to Zoo’s than others but the Lions, Gorillas looked miserable and the animals looked crammed. For those who think they are just animals all I got to say is that what places you above those and if something does place you above those I think our responsibility is to be nice! We all need to mind the planet (now more than ever) and all the small things add up to the BIG things, everyone’s help counts so lets try set examples for others to follow! Aid the wild and not increase the Zoo’s, help the animals and poor people who live with them, recycle and then we can attempt to turn back the clock!

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For certain species of animal, thre must be keep safely in the zoo so that they would not extinct.

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i think it is a good idea trust me...!!!!

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yes because you get to see loads of different animals from all over the world in one palce. animals are safe in the zoo.I saw lots of animals in Dublin zoo, it was a lovely day out.

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sometimz but they do need sum freedom the could use a free pLace where they can run around like an hour a day or something so dont keep them in their cages for 2 long it could drive them mad MAD I TELL U MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!

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we should not keep animals in zoos for OUR profit and entertainment.

They do not wreck the world; we do

JUST BECUASE THEY CANNOT SPEAK IT DOES NOT MEAN THEY DONT SUFFER

WE ARE HURTING THE INNECENT;IT IS A TERRIBLE CRIME

SOME people are too cruel and small mined to see that


I will NEVER go to a zoo agen


We have NO RIGHT WHATSOEVER to put ouerselves above them

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i think if the animals are in the wild they might get hurt and in the worst scenario they might even be killed and thats only for living in their own habbitat. So i think that it is write for them to live in a zoo as long as they have enough space. If the animals are extinced that would be even better just to stop them from becomeing extinced.

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if it keeps animals like polar bears and white tigers out of extinction , i am happy to see them in school!!

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ya becuase they might become extinct

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what do you think?
if you think about this problem by regarding in terms of the animals?
their freedom?
taken out of their natural environment and climate?

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to opose mil s answer. i will do anything to keep indangered animals alive and well and if that means taking them out of there natural habatait then so be it .

p.s just because we are keeping them alive does not mean we are putting ourselves above them. we are trying to keep them safe

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yes animals should be kept in zoos. Only the endangered spiecese though

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dont tink they should?

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I really think is too cruel

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it think it is alright to keep animals in zoo's but they have to have to have large enclosures and have to be treated right but it would be nice to see them in the natural environment but it is also good because they might die in their natural environment because of poachers.

WE SHOULD KILL POACHERS TO GIVE THEM A TASTE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!DOWN WITH POACHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!DOWN WITH POACHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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i think it is cruel because animals need to be free in the wild and if they are hurt they should be treated well. treating them well doesn't mean locking them in cages.

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ya you think you see the animals and go home right? but the animals at the zoos have to stay there forever!!! and thats just sad=(

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yes i think that keeping animals in zoos is not right because they sould be free to live anywhere they wont,so the zoo people have no right to take the animals from the wild

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I think it is good and bad as if you keep them in the zoo they won't become extinct.
If you don't keep them in the zoo they can run wild in the wild and live the natural life.

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well,i have two sides to the story.Firstly,i feel that keeping animals in zoos are like animal cruelty.Similiar things have been done to animals,like testing make-up on animals.Animals should be able to inhabit where they want.They should be put back into the wild where they would want to live in.Some zoos treat the animals unfairly and that's another reason why the animals are going extinct.But,there is another side to the story where in the mojority of zoos,the animals are treatedwell and carefully,this is where i think that keeping animals in zoos are a good idea.Most animals get fair treatment and some animal even had babies in zoos!But there are disadvantages to living in the wild.Some poachers try to kill the animals and thats why some are going extinct.Some animals do feel safer in the zoo but some don't get fair treatment.I think that the animals should be able tho pick where they want to live.The wild would be more free but in most zoos they offer big and spacious spaces so that the animals can live comfortably.As long as some anials feel safe in the zoo,they can stay there.But I think that if some animals miss the wild,the could be put back into a resource park and stay there safely so no poachers get them.That way,the animals in thw zoo and the wild would be able to live in peace.The animals really get to pick which place they live in but as long as they feel comfortable in a particular space,no matter if it was the zoo or not,then they should have the right to live there.If anyone agrees with me thank you!!!!!!!!I love animals and I don't want to see them getting hurt but they should really be the ones who get to pick where they live.

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i think that it is good for the righr reasons.no we dont need to see them but it would be nice to help them survive longer. the conditions should be right but just as animal circuses have gdied out, so too will the animals who are in captivity for the enjoyment of so called civilised human beings

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it is a good idea to keep some animals in the zoo it depens on what animal it is like keep a lion in the zoo not a parot because you can have it for a pet

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I believe it is wrong to keep animals in a zoo. Who does it benefit. If we want to preserve these animals we must preserve their habitat. Zoos are a Victorian anachronism. As for breeding programmes, the limited gene pool from zoo animals all around the world mean that these captive bred animals will only ever be for show. Did you see how depressed the elephants were before being moved to Germany listing from one from side to another for hours on end like drugged patients in a psychiatric ward. The silver back Grilla that is currently there looks suicidal.

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In my oppinion i find that keeping an animal in a cage is WRONG! Also for example a tiger- the tiger is used to living in a HOT climate not somewhere in England or Ireland where it is cold and rainy. Animals have feeling just because they cannot speak, IT DOES NOT MEAN THEY DONT HAVE FEELINGS. how scared would you feel if a stranger took you away from your home and brought you to a strange new environment?? Yeah, i would say you would feel scared,helpless,worried...... well thats what animals in zoos feel like...




I agree with a santuary for breeding extint animals... but LET THEM BACK FREE IN THE WILD.


POCHERS ARE TO BLAME!!!!

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ok heres my rant...
im a keeper at a large zoo in scotland and have been reading some of the comments that people have put about this topic.

I have to say that a lot of the opinions, although everyone has a right to their own, are uneducated and shows a great deal of pure ignorance. Most people rant about how animals have the right to be in the wild....OFCOURSE THEY DO!!!!!!! The reason that they are kept in captivity is because humans have detroyed their habitat, therefore the numbers within species are drastically droppping and theres lots of wonderful species that have gone extinct.
I pose this question to all those that say zoos are animal cruelty.....Do you have any idea how these animals are kept???? All collections have hundreds of standards, regulations and laws of requirements that they ahve to meet to get a zoo licence. PLUS, all the keepers love the animals they work with and put 100% of their effort into looking after and caring for them...its a passion not just a job. trust me!
Dont sit there and take a moral high ground...humans are slowly killing the natural environment...i bid you...Would you give up your aerosol,gas central heating, your car, your fancy trip abroad?????? i severally doubt it!
Here is a horrible but hard cold fact....we are so close to losing many of the wonderful species of animal that inhabit the world...if it wasnt for zoos species such as the barbary lion would be completly extinct and would stand no chance of being introduced back into the wild. Zoos these days are there not for entertainment but necessity and also for education.
My final question to you all....What are you doing to save the worlds animals?????

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in some cases i do think it is ok to keep animals in zoos but for those animals that should be really out in the wild or in their orginal habitat then i think that is where they should be! animals that are not endangered should be put back to their old life because it is cruel! how would humans like if animals kept us in cases jst to make money off us? we wouldnt like it or tolerate it so why should they?!

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if its for breeding purposes than thats ok but if theyre keeping the animal in there as an attraction its cruelty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I think, animals deffinatly should NOT be kept in zoo's, if people would stop hunting them everything would be alright.

ANIMALS DO NOTHING TO THE WORLD, WE DO THE DAMAGE.

saving some animals are okay for a zoo, but some should be let wild and get check ups once in a while.

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it is't really if the animal is leaving it's mother. how would you like it if you are being stared at every day! but it's 0k for some animals if they are with their chrildren!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Well,as long as they treat them right.I mean,it's animal cruelty to keep them there for all their lives,but the female animals can breed so maybe when the babies are old enough they will go back to the wild and then they get some more animals and keep doing the same thing.

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they will live lol they have done so far

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i think it fine i go to a zoo a lot and the seem very happy and the get feed right but if they go back to wild they will DIE

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I think animals should be free, not mocked by people on how they look or what they do to survive animals need to learn to fend for themselves not to rely on the human society

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i agree with every single person here that says keeping animals in zoos is cruel. sure the endangered animals get bred but that can happen in other places. not zoos!! they get very little space to stay everyday and no freedom. some of them aren't even with their families. its just like being kidnapped - poachers take animals from their habitats and take them to zoos. they get separated with their families. everyone has been to a zoo before and it doesn't take a genious to work out that the animals are suffering. they get stared at 24/7!!!! they get mocked and teased and sometimes visitors even hurt them! thanks =)

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i have a mixed view on this. they can be kept fairly in a large enclosure and should be fed well and treated in the same way people get treated.They shouldn't be kept in a small cage or be treated unfairly or treated as a form of amusement to people glaring at them.

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i think it is good to keep only endangered animals in zoos but not normal animals which should be living in the free wild........

if you agree with me write a comment..

animals should be happy and free...

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no...... it is an abominable use of money and time. how would you feel if some random people caged you and let fat tourists carted around in buses with their big glugs in hand, staring at you like they havent seen someone like that before? if we used the money put into zoos, we could make a better wildlife protecton agency and stop poachers.
thats my view.....

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i think its wrong to keep animals in zoos, in some curcumstances it is right to keep animals in zoos for example, if its for breeding porposes to stop them from being extinct.
if its not for breeding perposes it is an absolute monstrosity !!!! !!
!!! :(

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i think they should not be kept in zoos have you seen how unhappy they look

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yes it is a good idea because if animals are sick and have no home they can get better in the zoo from the zoo keepers. if they have no home in the wild they might find it hard to get food and water but in the zoo the get it for free!!!

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personally, i am on both sides. . . i don't think that it is fair to keep animals in zoo's just for show . . . however, i think it is very fair if it is just to educate them and help make their lives easier. it is also nice to provide a supply of food and water for the animals to help them survive . . . but i think that eventually they to be able to have a wildlif and they should eventually be able to be on their own and have their own family!!!

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It is NOT okay for animals to be kept in zoos!!!! Breeding dosen't always work and it is proven that many spesis go extinct anyway!How would you like to be locked up in a cage for no reason!!!! You can just as easily put them on reseves!!! their behavier is different than their natural behavier!!!!

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no, i thinkit is outrageous to keep them in cages forever and ever and ever and ever