Those Animals

In today's age, we do not have to travel to the wilderness to see the exotic an animals that we admire as a child. We have the option to visit the zoo and see those rare animals that do not live in the land where humans inhabit.  Of course, when something exists, there are always arguments on its existence.  Will locking the animals up benefit or hurt them? 

One of the benefits of keeping the animals in a guarded area is that they will remain safe and protected. If it wasn't for zoo keepers, some animals would be extinct now.  Tigers and pandas, for instance, would be endangered if they did not come under the rescue of zoo keepers. These great organisms helped humans understand the ecosystem and the world and without t hem, humans would have little knowledge of what it's out there in the wild.  

Secondly, civilians have the opportunity to enjoy the animals and study them.  Today, if we go to the wild, it is rare and almost never to see the black bears and the koala. When we go to the zoos, we can see how these animals live and carry out their days.  The view gives us perspective about life from the angle of the animals. Though humans are different physically than animals, both organisms have the same goal: to survive.  Animals are driven by the survival of the fittest mindset just like humans and having the understanding will give humans an understanding on how to improve their survival mode.

A negative aspect of keeping the animals in the zoo is that the animals may feel  lonely due to the separation from their clan in the wild. They may not cooperate with the zoo keepers and may even rebel and hurt other animals and even their trainers.  For instance, the documentary Blackfish, the killer whale Tilikum attacked and killed the trainers. Now, there are many hypothesis on why the killer whales attack the trainers.  We do not know what is in the mind of these organisms and probably have no way ever but the idea that they miss their habitat and clans is  legitimate logic on why they attack and rebel in the human made ecosystem.  

All in all, I am for keeping animals in the zoo. They provide countless of opportunities for humans to improve themselves and appreciate life. We cannot disregard the cons but there are more pros in keeping them and sometimes it's better to just zoom in the positives.