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Personally I detest zoos only because I love nature and love to see animals in their natural habitat. It saddens me to see monkeys, seals, bears, etc., caged in or dolphins in what look like fair-sized pools of water, but, when you consider the vast ocean that they belong in the pool is but a puddle. If governments of this world are environmentally conscious (and the U.S. and Canada are not) then we wouldn't have to go to zoos to see these animals. It's a far greater thrill to see the real thing in their own habitat.

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By zoo I think you mean animal prison. Besides robbing them of freedom: disease, illness, mistreatment by handlers visitors and other animals, injury, psychological distress, injury to visitors, and the worst of all death of the animals.

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Good zoos are Ok but there're some out there which most people don't even know exist which are illegal and bad.

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