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There's two kinds of zoo's. In one, there is an attempt to create an environment that is as close to the natural life a species would have in the wild... in these zoo's many animals probably don't know or care that they're confined. These zoos add to our understanding of the species out there and are IMHO a great net benefit to the environment. When I moved my family out to Southern California for a year, the first weekend there we got a membership to the San Diego Zoo and went to the Wildlife Park.
Heck, we might be IN such a zoo now and not even know it [img]smile.gif[/img] . Ideally such a zoo aspires to make itself transparent to it's inhabitants.
The other kind is about making money... and the less said there the better. This sort of zoo needs to be extirminated (and thankfully this is happening).
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