Estimulos Zoos The Pitiful Prisons
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Past Originated to
Present Continues to
Place Built to
Price Attract masses - to
Purpose(of visitors)
70% of time spent solely to
ENTERTAIN
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No natural selection in breeding
Bred for captivity
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Capture Transport Confinement
Physical Psychological
Traumatic Experience
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• Life span halved
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• Tinker-bell elephant suffered ‘176 gashes and cuts’
• Zoo babies - Crowd-pleasers – Killed later
• Over 60% has scars
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Stated• Education• Conservation
Reality• Entertainment• Breeding for Self Sustenance• Trauma
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References• “Critics Question China’s Worldwide Panda Profit,” The Age, 5 Apr. 2003.
• “Animal Activists Get Wish as Abused Elephant Is Moving to New Home in Tennessee,” Associated Press, 25 Jan. 2000.
• Michael Satchell, “Cruel and Usual: How Some of America’s Best Zoos Get Rid of Their Old, Infirm, and Unwanted Animals,” U.S. News and World Report, 5 Aug. 2002
• William Booth, “ Naked Ape New Zoo Attraction; Surprise Results From People-Watching Study,” The Washington Post, 14 Mar. 1991.
• Brooks Barnes, “Outings: A Bear Market for Zoos,” The Wall Street Journal, 30 May 2003.
• Amboseli Elephant Research Project, letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 24 Jun. 2003.
• History and purpose of zoos: http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:LM133q7p1k4J:www.agtv.vic.edu.au/docs2008/Zoo/History%2520and%2520purpose%2520of%2520zoos.doc+Are+zoos+serving+a+purpose&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk
• Zoos: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/zoos.htm
• Truth about zoos By Rama Kumaraswamy Thoopal: http://www.pitara.com/discover/earth/online.asp?story=101
• Zoos and animal rights: the ethics of keeping animals By Stephen St. C. Bostock : http://books.google.com/books?id=H3jOMqEjo3UC&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=Are+zoos+serving+a+purpose&source=bl&ots=Z-YhoC7cL-&sig=-80oU7jRx8k0JwlSNKAZ-4eDPT8&hl=en&ei=tenhStDsOYH46QOlusDlAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Are%20zoos%20serving%20a%20purpose&f=false
• Sanctuary Standards: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/sanctuarystandards.htm
• Purpose of Zoos by Bill Baker: http://www.reporternews.com/news/2008/mar/26/purpose-zoos/?printer=1/
• African Conservation Foundation: http://www.africanconservation.org/dcforum/DCForumID33/975.html
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