The only argument I might add is that being able to view creatures up close and personal may spark an interest in wildlife, which may be absent if people don't have such an experience. If zoos didn't exist, the distance between man and animals would be even greater. Being allowed to look at and appreciate such creatures is what sparks people to defend wildlife when people try to do away with them through hunting and poaching, etc.
This is just an idea. I might be way off. What do you think?
I went to those, I don't what you call it, but they are not in cages. They are free to roam and you drive by and watch from a distance. It's like a Safari. It was in San Diego.
The worse is those circus acts where they take these majestic cats, both lions and tigers, and have them do stupid tricks. Jumping through hoops and shit. I always hated that. Even as a kid I knew that something was so wrong with this picture. I remember one display where they had this chimp dressed up in short pants and suspenders with a goofy hat making him dance and shit. I was like WTF? I always hated the circus. As a little kid it just seem like some weird, perverse, bizzare and freak show. I use to get nightmares. Midgets running around forced to act funny, women with beards, clowns prancing around looking at you and making faces -- just freaks every where. But the worse, the absolute worse, the part that I hated the most and the part I would see in my nightmares, was the people. The people in the crowd. All laughing and pointing and yukking it up. Creepiest thing in the world.
I don't think they have those kinds of circuses in this country anymore.
