The majority of us undoubtedly have happy recollections of visiting the zoo as children. It was an amazing experience to be able to look forward to witnessing wild monsters that we had only read about in books. It seemed like a fantasy to see the large,
Magnificent elephants waiting for the guests to give them a peanut or two, or the orangutans mimicking our movements and waving back.
As we grew older, however, we came to understand that this enjoyable time for us humans is really suffering for all the animals whose natural habitats
Have been destroyed and their inhabitants imprisoned in order to profit. Some contend that humans contribute to the preservation of animals by housing them in zoos.
We argue that we need to discover methods to safeguard them in the wild if we really want them to survive into the future.
