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I'm Dickson Fung, and this is for Mr. Farrell's period 3 civics class. I type, you look =P
Friday, May 28, 2010, 10:03 PM
The Zoo and it's animals


Just recently, I went to the Toronto Zoo on Tuesday for my Science field trip. It was a fun day away from school and I got to see a great variety of animals. But should zoos even exist? No, not really. I found that the way they treat the different types of species is just plain cruel. The major problem with zoos is that the animals who live there are kept in small habitats that don't allow them to live their lives in a way that they were meant to. No matter how big some zoos, (the Toronto Zoo not being one of them), try to make the living area for the species, they don't compare with the natural habitat the animals were meant to be in. Zoo animals have to spend day after day, week after week, year after year in the exact same tiny little space. This makes their lives very boring. When I visited the Zoo, I noticed that the Polar Bears were just out laying in the Sun on the rock, looking like they were half dead. It was about 30 degrees Celsius that day, shouldn't they have been in a colder environment, and not one where they could oh I don't know.. PASS OUT?! Also, when I saw one of the elephants, I noticed that it kept swaying it's trunk back and forth; one might think it was just relaxing or something. The real truth is, repeated movements show signs of stress. They should just leave the animals where they ought to be, and not bring them into some environment where they were not supposed to live in. It's stupid.