WHY SHOULD ANIMALS LIVE LIKE PRISONERS FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES, JUST TO SUIT CURIOUS HUMANS?
The saddest thing about zoos is the way they drive animals mad. Much of the behaviour we take for granted in zoo animals repetitive padding up and down, head banging, obsessive paw swinging, or just plain moping is actually psychotic, the sort of thing humans get driven to when they are kept in solitary confinement. Bill Travers Star of Born Free and co-founder of Zoo Check click here for this story… A wild animal confined in a restrictive, artificial zoo environment is a sensitive being condemned for the rest of its life to a deprived existence. Where it sleeps, what it eats and with which other animals, if any, it interacts are all decided for it. Its inherent value is denied and the respectful treatment to which it is entitled, dismissed. Those who support zoos say they fulfill an important function for the conservation of endangered species, that important research is conducted there, that the public learns about wildlife and the need for environmental conservation, and last, but
