Topic > The Pros and Cons of Keeping Animals in Zoos - 1318

With the spread of different types of people coming in and out of zoos, children are the ones who love the zoo the most. Children enjoy zoos more because in a zoo a child can get close to an animal. Other zoos allow families to interact with an animal while allowing children to learn more about that species. At the zoo, children can use almost all five senses by listening, smelling, seeing and possibly touching, which a child cannot achieve while watching television (zoo). Involving families in zoos means a lot. Especially today's families because they have a very high vision in teaching their children about nature and respect for living beings in the world (Especially). At the Saint Louis Zoo, approximately 400,000 children and adults have participated in their learning programs. Visitors to the Saint Louis Zoo give it a score of 9.1 on a scale of one to ten. Also, the entrance fees to enter the zoo go towards further research, so the zoo is even better for the animals that live there (entrance). “Some animals are much more difficult to breed… but our goal is to ensure a secure future for species and their habitats. Sometimes captivity is the only alternative to the total loss of a species.” (West, Chair of Zoology at the University of Adelaide). In a journal called Visitor Studies in 2008, it is stated that “zoo experiences…promote greater implicit connection