ZOOS ARE PRISONS, FREE THE INNOCENT!

Zoos do not keep endangered animals safe, they are inhumane, and they often do more bad than good. Zoos are often mistaken as a fun place for families to go and see wild animals that they wouldn't normally see in their daily lives. In reality, zoos are a sick place where they lock up wild animals to showcase them to the public for cash. These animals are cramped up in too small of cages, don't get the physical activity that they need, and many of them suffer from zoochosis. To learn more about the horrors of captivated animals/zoos, explore the LINKS.

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Polar bear going through zoochosis, as you watch you’ll see him pacing in front of a door moving his head from side to side.

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Zookeeper at Korean Zoo / Theme Park traumatizes young bear by putting it in an enclosure with lions. The workers claim that they were trying to help the bear “socialize” but they clearly thought the animal’s terror and distress was comedic. (And bears and lions would never “socialize” in the wild.)

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Article: Zoos neither educate nor empower children, newly published research suggests

Read it here.

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Little Cub by Daniel Parent

American Black Bear Cub

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Fight! photographed by Alexandr Sanin

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Xi Lan by smileybears

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printx by Harsha Jayawardena

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Mexican gray wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) by Jeff Wiles

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Zoo Fact

"A kangaroo at the Cleveland Zoo had to be euthanized after being struck by a train running through the exhibit. She was at least the fifth animal to be struck by the train" (PETA 2015).

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Zoo Fact

"A bear starved to death at the Toledo Zoo after zoo officials locked her up to hibernate without food or water. They didn’t know that her species doesn’t hibernate" (PETA 2015).

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Zoo Fact

“An Oxford University study based on four decades of observing animals in captivity and in the wild found that animals such as polar bears, lions, tigers, and cheetahs “show the most evidence of stress and/or psychological dysfunction in captivity” (PETA, 2015).

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Zoo Fact

“Zoos claim to provide educational opportunities, but most visitors spend only a few minutes at each display, seeking entertainment rather than enlightenment” (PETA, 2015).

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Zoo Fact

“In the summer of 2005, two polar bears died within five weeks of each other at the Saint Louis Zoo—Churchill died after ingesting an object that had been thrown into his exhibit, and Penny died from an infection as a result of having two dead fetuses in her uterus” (PETA, 2015).

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Zoo Fact

“New Jersey’s Cape May County Zoo sold two giraffes to an animal broker who then sold them to a traveling circus” (PETA 2015). 

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Zoo Fact

“Precious funds that should be used to provide more humane conditions for animals are often squandered on cosmetic improvements—such as landscaping, refreshment stands, and gift shops—in order to draw visitors” (PETA 2015).

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Zoo Fact

“From 2006 to 2009, Missouri’s Dickerson Park Zoo handed over ‘surplus’ giraffes, zebras, kangaroos, wallabies, and exotic antelopes to questionable entities.” (PETA 2015).

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Zoo Fact

“90 percent of public aquariums studied had animals who demonstrated stereotypic (neurotic) behavior” (PETA 2015).