[Dodo]

Completely against them. I've been since the first time I ever went, and I saw a polar bear (in a tropical country for crying out loud) being zapped by handlers for moving out of a little box while they cleaned its cage.

As for educating children, how is showing kids they can be as rude to an animal as they want without it fighting back going to help us "wake up" and see that we're not the only intelligent life form on the planet? I haven't been to a zoo since, I care plenty.

I'd rather have the animals die out in the wild than bred and confined for generations to save their species. But that's not my choice to make.