One cannot force a living creature to live in a place where it does not belong. This does not only apply to people, but also to every little thing that exists. One cannot put tropical plants in an extremely cold place. Likewise, you cannot have a fish taken out of water.
Human beings who are used to deserts would not be able to survive in rainforests. This assumed law in nature is applied to most creatures in the animal kingdom. Wild animals should live in their natural habitats, not within a cramped space enclosed in walls and cages.
There are reasons people should know about wild animals belonging to their natural habitat. Although it may seem to a lot of people that belonging to the zoo can be good for these animals, that is not always the case. Zoos can raise the awareness of people about animals. Animals’ presence within closer contact with people can truly be inspiring and life-changing.
But we must realise that these animals simply do not belong behind closed doors. Keeping animals from their rightful habitat can repress their animal instincts after a point of time. They tend to become unpredictable. Cages can destroy the spirit of these animals. They might lose the essence of being called ‘wild animals.’ They can either turn against those who take care of them or act on instinct no matter how much was taught to them by trainers.
Animals are just like humans—they eat, sleep and drink like us. They can run, walk and swim like us. They speak a certain language and they all have male and female genders. So why is it that factory farms and circuses must keep these animals, which are just like us in nearly every single way, in cages? How would you feel being stuck in a small, cramped and uncomfortable cage with little food and water and no one to play with? I’m pretty sure you and I wouldn’t like that.
Some animals have died just from the conditions that their cages have been kept in. You would not even think of locking humans in cages yet just down the road at your local zoo or circus, helpless animals are being kept in that claustrophobic cage so we human beings can have the privilege to see those animals. If we wouldn’t do it to other humans, why is it right to do it to animals? Why?
