History of Zoos Worldwide Speech A zoo (short for zoological park or zoological garden‚ and is also similar to a menagerie) is an establishment that maintains a collection of wild animals‚ typically in a park or gardens‚ for study‚ conservation‚ or display to the public. The predecessor of the zoological garden is the menagerie‚ which has a long history from the ancient world to modern times. In ancient times having a collection of animals meant you were wealthy and very powerful because it
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THE AUDUBON ZOO‚ 1993 The Audubon Zoo is located in New Orleans‚ Louisiana and is a 501(3)(c) non-profit organization. In 1914 the Audubon Commission was created to maintain and develop Audubon Park. In 1919 the Audubon Institute was established as the parent agency. Over the next several decades many changes would occur including the addition of a monkey cage‚ mammal cage and a deer paddock. Louisiana school children purchased the first elephant in 1924 and shortly thereafter an aquarium and
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Zoo or Prison People always say that animals are our friends; that is why we’d like to go to zoos to see those animals. But are the animals happy about being locked in cages and being seen by people everyday? Or do they want to live in the environments that they are supposed to live? Of course we are never able to know what an animal thinks‚ but I know one thing for sure‚ I don’t want to live in a cage and to be showed to people everyday. Keeping animals in the zoos stops them from being who
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By now everyone has heard of the 3 year old boy that managed to climb his way into the gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati zoo. Fearing for the boy’s life‚ zoo officials made the decision to shoot and kill the 400-pound silverback gorilla named Harambe. I’m not here to discuss whose fault it was or even if it was necessary‚ everyone else is doing that. What I am more interested in is people’s reaction to it. Several questions occurred to me. Why is it that people’s first reaction was not exaltation
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Clay Chastain Dr. Hamilton‚ ANTH 2310-1 The Zoo Project: Nonhuman Primate Research 7 November 2006 Background Information In the world‚ a variety of primate species exist. Each species a unique function in the wild and differs‚ sometimes greatly‚ from another primate species. Two species that will be analyzed here are the Wolf’s Guenon (Cercopithecus wolfi)‚ an Old World monkey‚ and the Black-handed Spider Monkey (Ateles geoffroyi)‚ a
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Castellanos THE2000 Ms Janet Roney 12/1/12 The Zoo Story Edward Albee’s “The Zoo Story” is a one act play that shows what alienation and loneliness can drive a man to do. It is a unique story in the sense that you almost feel as though you are reading in on a social experiment. I consider it is an experiment because of how the reactions between the two characters Peter and Jerry lead up to an intense and life affecting climax between the two. The idea of The Zoo Story is about a middle class man with a
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Cheetahs in Zoos Cheetahs in captivity should be left there‚ not released into the wild‚ and on the same note cheetahs in the wild should be left there‚ not brought into captivity. A cheetah in a zoo that is released into the wild may not know what to do‚ having been cared for by people in an enclosed environment for a number of years and then suddenly thrust out into the wild and on its own may have adverse effects on the cat ’s psyche‚ making it manic or exhibit unpredictable behaviors and
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complete lie. For instance the zoo. Every young child likes going to the zoo to see the animals. But what if those animals were being mistreated or weren’t happy animals because of the way their locked up. Would you still wanna go see them? All the animals you thought were safe in their “natural habit” were really in nothing but a prison. I Personally believe that Zoo’s are nothing more than interment camps for animals and should be shut down. I use to love going to the zoo as a child. I adore lions
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Today there are only about 790 mountain gorillas left in the world. They are the second most severely endangered subspecies of gorilla and can only survive in the wild. Unlike other gorillas that can live in captivity. My goal is to raise awareness of the decline of these magnificent animals. Although dedicated conservation initiatives have taken place since their scientific discovery in 1902‚ the mountain gorillas are still at great risk from malicious human acts and other biological reasons. Factors
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The Eastern Gorilla faces many challenges due to the destruction of its habitat and poaching. The Eastern Gorilla is the largest living primate and has now joined three other great ape species as critically endangered on The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s red list of endangered species. This is extremely worrying to many government and environmental leaders because there are only about five thousand Eastern Gorillas left in the wild. Furthermore‚ of all of the great ape
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