Someone goes into your house, kidnaps you, tears you from your family, and jails you for life. How would you feel if that were you? Zoos should be illegal because humans do not have the right to capture animals, tear them from their families, and jail them, even if the animal is endangered.

Animals are abused, not given enough space and exercise, and they suffer from stress, boredom, and depression. Many animals die prematurely because of a bad diet, not enough exercise, and bad living conditions. Some polar bears get only ten meters of space when in their natural habitat they walk hundreds of kilometers. In Woburn Safari park in Bedfordshire, England admitted to killing excess monkeys.
Animals will no longer be able to survive in the wild. Animals born into to zoos will no longer know how to hunt and do other things that are necessary to survive in the wild. Two lynxes released into the wild were found dead from starvation even though the area was full of hares, the lynx’s natural prey. People for zoos say they are preventing extinction, but what is the point if they will be captive forever. They would be better off if we just kept them in their natural environment. If we keep on building zoos and keep taking animals captive, they will be dependent on the human race when the human race is having enough of its own problems.

Zoos are morally wrong. For animal rights we do not have the right to capture, confine, and breed other animals. Humans are animals too. What if other humans started putting other humans in zoos? There would be an outrage. What if other animals got smart and started keeping us in zoos? We would probably euthanize them for being dangerous. Supporters of zoos say that they are preventing extinction. Then we should protect their natural habitats instead of creating animal prisons. The real reason people have zoos is because they make them tons of money. Zoos spend most of their money on concession stands, gift shops, and other improvements, not for the good of the animals. The zookeepers don’t care the animals like they say they do, they care about all the money their animals make them. True sanctuaries rehabilitate animals until they ready to go back to the wild. They do not breed animals, jail them, and trade them to other zoos and circuses. Living things do not have the right to put other living things in zoos.

Imagine yourself as an animal. Your stuck in the same room for maybe the rest of your life. You have been torn from your family. People stare at you the entire day like you're not even a living thing with feelings. You think about why you were the one that had to be thrown into a cage away from your family and natural environment. What did you do wrong anyway to get such a punishment? Why isn’t this animal cruelty? Zoos should be illegal because humans do not have the right to capture animals, tear them from their families, and jail them, even if the animal is endangered.