Essay On Animals In Captivity

📌Category: Animal rights, Animals, Environment, Social Issues
📌Words: 774
📌Pages: 3
📌Published: 14 January 2022

Introduction:

This report will look at different species of animal’s life in captivity. Animals that are living in captivity lives are very different from the wild. Unfortunately, there are 600,000 different animals living in zoo’s all around the world and 1.1 million UK homes have exotic pets, etc. Birds, reptiles, and rodents. Many zoos and aquariums, roughly 75% are known to abuse the animals. This sadly will continue unless something happens.

Zoos and Aquariums:

Many captured animals are forced to do many activities involving human contact. Which causes animals to get anxiety and even suffer as 30% od aquariums and zoos make animals perform in front of people and 23% let humans hand feed the animals. Elephants are one of the biggest animals in captivity. Given the large frame of the elephant, they are forced into tiny areas with short chains, many calves (baby elephants) are taken away from their mother at a young age. 

In a zoo – South Lake Safari – over 500 animals died due to neglect and human error, this happens a lot at recognizable incident is the death of Harambe the Gorilla as a young boy fell into his enclosure, which resulted in the gorilla being shot to death, there are many cases of humans entering an animals enclosure by their own will and getting the animals shot when trying to save the person from death. Zoos can fix this issue by putting up safety measures and constantly checking that the safety measures and they are updated and fix them when needed. 

Primates as pets:

Humans can still have primates – such as lemurs, monkeys, and tarsiers - as pets, which is not banned. Primates, just like most animals need mental stimulation and they also need loads of space to roam around, also primates need other primates to socialize with – due to bring highly social animals. Humans also can catch measles and herpes from primates, also not to mention that primates mark their territory with their urine, which has a strong smell. Primates also need a specialist vet, which are hard to find and also very expensive. There are an estimated 5,000 primates living with humans. 

Circus animals:

Animals that perform in circus live in terrible conditions, they are often moving around, while staying in tight temporary housing during this they are overworked to make them act in front of large crowds, just like zoos and aquariums. During this, animals cannot socialize or have enough space to move around or show their instincts, which means they could manifest behavior or health issues. Thankfully, England and Wales have banned circuses under the Animals in Circuses Act 2019 (England) and Wales Bill for this came into action in December in 2020.

Circuses use captive bred animals, these animals like all animals they have their natural instincts meaning they are not tamed/ domesticated. This means their needs are not met, as big cats, such as lions and tigers are stuck in ‘beast wagons’ or chained and forced into cramped trucks, where they can’t see the sun, while animals such as camels and horses are either in animals’ tents or stuck behind fences to graze, or even they are tied up to graze. During this 1% of the day, they are forced to perform in front of many people then forced back into their horrible conditions. 

Animals’ sanctuary:

Animal sanctuaries are different from zoos, this is due to animal sanctuaries not breeding the animals that they save or sell these animals, these sanctuaries do not capture the animals from the wild, but thankfully instead they try to help and heal the animals while keeping them safe from hunters or their old owners. 

These animals are kept a lot different than zoos, as sanctuaries try to recreate the animals’ specific habitats, animals would also be in groups to socialize and protect each other. If the habitat has a pacing path worn into the ground is a sign that they aren’t a real animal sanctuary that takes care of their animals.  Habitats also sound have enrichments for the animals’ particular needs such as climbing poles for chimpanzees or large pools of water for bears to dive into, this helps the animals’ natural instincts come out- meaning they aren’t putting the enrichments in for human entertainment.

Animals in sanctuaries are thankfully safe from humans as humans cannot get near the animals to touch due to the animals being wild and dangerous. Humans also are advised to not take photos of the animals as it can scare them and endanger both human and animal. Some sanctuaries do take care of farm animals and also domesticated animals that do let humans get close willingly. Sanctuaries get the animals from people who can not take care of them -circuses and roadside zoos-, animals that live in the sanctuaries have most likely had a terrible start to their life and some sanctuaries will even tell you the animal’s story if asked. This also gets humans to learn about the dangerous animals have to face in places like laboratories, zoos, and circuses.

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