Essays Tagged: "zoos"
America's Zoos
America's Zoos: Entertainment to Conservation The children run ahead, squealing with delight. Their par ... ts is important as well. As concern for the world's animals becomes more prominent in the news, our zoos rise up to meet the challenge. Animal's rights and their treatment, regardless of species, have ... een brought to attention and positive movements made. While the number of endangered species grows, zoos attempt to do their part in conservation. Both in and out of the park, zoos and their scientist ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
Are zoo's good or bad? This essay explores the good and bad things about zoos. Very good essay for anyone in middle school or lower level high school.
hance to see the animals rather than in pictures. My next reason is that some of the animals in the zoos are orphans and would not have been able to survive in the wild. Zoos give those animals a chan ... rotection, and water that they may not have been able to find out in the wild. My final reason that zoos are good is that animals are protected from poachers and other dangerous animals. Some animals ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Animal Rights Opinion Paper: Bio-ethics
ged for their experiments that are furthering American medical technology everyday.Some people call zoos circuses and rodeos animal torture. The animals involved in these types of entertainment are ce ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
Zoos are animals' prisons.
son for nothing? Anyone would say, "Of course!" Then why do people think that animals feel happy in zoos, which are the same as prisons? I remember once I visited Los Angeles Zoo, and I compared this ... er around. However, this is still a "prison"..."Even under the best of circumstances at the best of zoos, captivity itself is hell for animals meant to roam free" (Kaufman, 1997, p. 611K7091). People ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
The Bottlenose Dolphin.
ntoceti, order Cetacea. These animals are well known for its intelligence and are commonly found in zoos or marine parks. In marine parks they can be seen perfroming clever tricks such as jumping thro ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
An Informal Setting Experience: A Visit to the Zoological Gardens
goals of taking our students to informal settings, such as museums, aquariums, nature centers, and zoos, should not only be to entice and expand their natural curiosity about the exhibits that they s ... nghouse (ENC) Focus, Jack Hanna noted that about 125 million people annually visit our nation's 160 zoos (1999, p. 2). In today's high-tech and computerized schools, a teacher can take "virtual field ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Jaguars
unted almost to extinction for their fur. Biologists now find it difficult to study wild jaguars in zoos, where the animals have been bred successfully.Males and females meet in the wild only to mate. ... r than 200 wild jaguars left in all of Argentina. Soon, the only remaining populations will live in zoos. Although jaguars have a reputation as man-eaters, there are numerous stories about men being f ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
The White Tiger
White TigerThe white tiger is an endangered specie. They are very rare and can only be seen in zoos. As of June 1998, there were 30 white tigers in U.S. zoos that participated in SSP(Species Surv ... ly located on the mainland of southeastern Asia and in central and southern India. Most now live in zoos or special wildlife parks. A white tigers diet is varied from deer and cattle, to frogs and fis ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
The Scopes Trial
ith a new interpretation." Moran contends that the only real winners in the trial were the monkeys. Zoos reported a huge boom in visitors and pet monkey owners flocked to Dayton, Tennessee looking for ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Zoos: The Reality Of It All
There are too many zoos where animals pace metal cages and cramped outdoor enclosures. If there is a wild animal in a z ... It is better to see animals in the wild, not in captivity. Despite professed concerns for animals, zoos remain more "collections" of interesting "items" than actual havens. Zoos teach people that is ... s acceptable to keep animals in captivity, bored, cramped, lonely and far from their natural homes. Zoos do not fulfill an animal's basic needs. Also, people don't go to the zoos to get educated. In a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
Animals in Captivity.
ed this controversial essay topic and fell into much contemplation.It's undeniable that most animal zoos or such organizations really have relevant knowledge, offer suitable environments and rescue an ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Civilization and the wilderness
y invade the habitats of animals, and often tame various animals for their own amusement such as in zoos and aquariums. In many cases, try to control them as well. Just as in Banff National Park, huma ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Penguin Genetics
ef, captive breeding is a means to species conservation that are unable to survive in the wild. The zoos' contribution to the preservation of species has been significant and outstanding examples of s ... ng a consensus for the protection and respect of species and wild life are being formed to organise zoos and aquarium and provide the guidelines for manners of conduct. The World Association of Zoos a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
Biodiversity
an indication by the numbers of different species of plants and animals. The preservations and the zoos have lots of comparison and contraction within those two areas. While the human populations are ... ossible consequence to the food web on the Serengeti, if any particular species, will disappear.The zoos and the preservations can be different or the same. The zoos take cares of animals when they ne ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
American Zoos
troyed. Stare, and a thousand threatened species stare back"� (Beyond Zoo, 2001, p.1).Modern zoos are no longer for pure entertainment. In recent years, zoos have begun to work together with un ... s and each other to prevent the loss of animals and their habitats. There are countless stereotypes zoos have carried with them since the first was created. Those misconceptions have led people to bel ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Life Of Pi Questions
he admirable three-toed sloth". In subsequent chapters, he explains the ways in which religions and zoos are both steeped in illusion. Having the reader know he has researched these areas allows us to ... he admirable three-toed sloth". In subsequent chapters, he explains the ways in which religions and zoos are both steeped in illusion. Having the reader know he has researched these areas allows us to ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
San Francisco Zoo Public Relation Final Paper
unezUniversity of PhoenixExecutive SummaryThe San Francisco Zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and represents a uniquely successful partnership between the City of San Francisc ... ed to the zoo safety and regulations. It is important to educate the public that the Association of Zoos and Aquariums AZA has a set of tough safety and regulation protocols. The San Francisco Zoo has ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management