Monstrous facts and photos are not for the faint-hearted.
These shocking facts confirm that none, even the best, zoo can not replace animals with freedom ...
In some zoos, healthy animals are killed.
In 2014, the whole world was shocked by the brutal murder that occurred in the Copenhagen zoo. Two-year-old giraffe Marius was killed by a shot from a construction pistol, and then, in front of the visitors, his carcass was cut and fed to her lions. The director of the zoo, Ben Holsten, commented on this monstrous action as follows:
"The genes of this giraffe are well represented in our breeding program. For him there is no place in the herd that lives in our zoo. The European Giraffe breeding program has given the go-ahead to be killed "
It turned out that for some European menageries this practice is in the order of things! Healthy animals are killed in order to avoid overpopulation and make room for more attractive animals for the zoo. And yet it's terrible ...
In some zoos, demonstration animals are shown.
In October 2015, in the zoo in Odense (Denmark), an indicative opening of a lion, which was lulled 9 months earlier and frozen, was performed. Children who were present in this process demonstrated the insides of the animal. However, most of the small spectators were shocked by this lesson of anatomy, they looked away and clamped their noses. The most horrible thing is that before the sleep the animal was absolutely healthy: it was deprived of life because of the overpopulation of the zoo ...
Animals are separated from partners.
Like humans, animals tend to experience deep affection for their partners. However, zoos do not always take into account feelings ... For example, a pair of chimpanzees, Nikita and Jason from the Zoo Lucknow, were separated after twenty years of tender friendship. Since the monkeys had no offspring, the zoo staff decided to find other partners for them.
Often in captivity, the cubs are separated from their mothers, which causes the children enormous psychological stress. Thus, zoos destroy family systems, which adversely affects the quality of life of their pets.
Many zoozaschitnikov include the separation of couples and parents from the calves to cases of cruelty to animals.
Animals are deprived of the physical activity they need.
Animals enclosed in a cage are significantly limited in the manifestation of physical activity. Especially suffer because of this elephants. The average life expectancy of an African elephant in captivity is only 16.9 years, while its wild relatives live up to 35.9. One of the main reasons that captive elephants live so little is the lack of activity.
Many animals just climb onto the wall from boredom.
Idleness and boredom are the main problems that animals face in captivity. Zoo animals do not hunt, they do not save themselves from predators, they do not build dwellings for themselves, as do their relatives living on freedom. Due to lack of activity, captives develop ticks and stereotyped movements. For example, bears can bite the bars of the cage, giraffes lick the wall, and small predators scurry from corner to corner. All this is a neurosis of obsessive behavior, a serious mental disorder.
Food in the zoo often does not fit animals.
In captivity, animals are deprived of the opportunity to independently procure their food. This negatively affects the physical and mental condition of pets.
For example, tigers and cheetahs in zoos are fed frozen horsemeat, which contributes to the development of erosion of the palate. The fact is that large cats have very sharp teeth. In the wild, predators are forced to chew their prey for a long time, and their teeth are gradually dulled. Frozen horsemeat does not require a long chewing. In an animal that regularly consumes it, the teeth remain sharp, which contributes to erosion.
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To live a happy and fulfilling life, animals need sufficient space for movement. Unfortunately, many menageries do not take into account this need and put their pets in close cages where they can hardly turn around. Solid zoo, of course, try to give their pets enough space, but some species of animals painfully carry closed space and experience stress from imprisonment even in the largest cages and aviaries.
For example, a polar bear in natural conditions is free to move through a huge area of more than 50,000 square kilometers. It is clear that no zoo is not able to give your pet such a huge space. Meanwhile, restriction of movement in the most negative way affects the psychoemotional state of the animal. Deprived of freedom, bears experience enormous stress and often suffer from such behavioral disorders as stereotypes. Animals can continually walk back and forth, shake their heads, rub against the same place.
Some animals are subjected to ill-treatment.
For the sake of commercial gain, some menageries subject their pets to suffering. So, in the Indonesian circus of animal dolphins, the audience was forced to jump through flaming hoops for the fun of the audience.
In some zoos, animals are kept in monstrous conditions.
In one of the famous southeastern zoo in the city of Surabay (Indonesia), due to a lack of funding and declining attendance, the animals were in terrible conditions. Out of 3,500 animals, 50 have died in recent years. Among them, Sumatran tigers, orangutans, Komodo dragons, giraffes, which are on the verge of extinction. Some animals are simply not shown to the public because of the deplorable physical condition.
Animals are separated from people to whom they are attached.
Numerous studies have shown that animals in zoos are very strongly attached to employees who care for them. Separated from his caretaker, the animal survives roughly the same as the child abandoned by the parents. Unfortunately, painful partings in zoos are not rare: caretakers after all sometimes leave. In addition, animals can be transferred from one zoo to another, without taking into account their attachments.
When a male gorilla named Tom moved to a new zoo, he stopped eating stress and lost a third of his weight. When the former caretakers of Tom came to visit the monkey, he clung to them and wept ...
PS Do you still want to go to the zoo?