wtf's wrong w entertainment? wtf are you doing on a bb board?
and even if animals don't have a choice in the matter, the animals in most major zoos are better off than they would be in the wild . . . probably getting poisoned, or having their horns hacked off, or starving b/c you like hamburgers.
oh, and the plural of zoo is zoos, not zoo's.
Oh yeah, taking animals away from the way nature intended them to be and putting them in cages while hundreds of people gawk at them and bang on the glass and take pictures is a good way to live. Not to mention animals such as gorillas being in a cage or a large square room.
Animals SURELY are better off in "zoos". Smart.
This all goes back to what Vet said, which is so true, about us humanizing animals. Humans are born to live in a family structure and live in houses. Wild animals from halfway across the world are not born intended to be born into the zoo. They are intended to live where they are even if it means "probably getting poisoned, or having their horns hacked off" and they are fine with this. This is life to them, posting on getbig is life to us.
They do not choose to go into the zoo, they are forced. It is diff if the animal is endangered and they are breeding it, so therefore there is a purpose behind it. But caging a fucking brown bear and charging 15 bucks to enter the zoo is not in any way necessary.
I am sure POLAR BEARS are really fucking happy about living in 100 degree weather with a pool next to them, while they lay and get seared by the sun. Are you kidding me?