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if you are not enjoying your temporary confinement think of these poor animals who have to endure it for the rest of their lives.

• Karuma 7y ago
  Sad to see this comment being downvoted. I can't believe people still do this to animals in most countries...
  • jimmaswell 7y ago
    It's anthropomorphising. Animals in a properly sized and well-made habitat aren't in distress.
    • neonate 7y ago
      How do you know that? Descartes believed that animals couldn't feel pain. We're all shocked by that now, but he could have (in fact probably did) use an argument similar to "that's anthropomorphising". There's a long history of humans making claims about what animals don't experience, in order to justify how we treat them, only to later discover evidence that overturns the claims. It seems to me that this has to be the default explanation for zoos as well.
      • viklove 7y ago
        How do you know plants don't feel pain?
        • DoreenMichele 7y ago
          Not sure why you are asking this, but there's evidence that plants do feel pain. At least some can emit chemicals to signal to others of their species that they are infested with harmful insects so other plants can begin producing toxins to protect themselves from infestation. Some also emit a pulse when damaged, which one might think if as kind of like a scream, though it's not anything humans can perceive with our innate senses. (At least, not most of us. There may be exceptions. Some humans are abnormally good at sensing magnetic north, etc.)
          • jimmaswell 7y ago
            A stimulus reaction isn't the same thing as "feeling pain", which requires a certain level of consciousness. It's debatable if even lobsters for example have the necessary development.
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            • pacamara619 7y ago
              Haha serotonin printer go brrr
• clairity 7y ago
  that's valid, but it's a tradeoff too. living in the wild can be brutal. zoos bring empathy for animals to people who are otherwise shielded from the wild. with that said, i'd be happy if zoos (and the pens within) were 10x-100x bigger.
• taborj 7y ago
  ... And what if we are enjoying it? Could that mean there are animals that do, in fact, enjoy living in a zoo? Many animals at my local zoo are rescues, so perhaps living in confinement beats dying to those animals?