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New research by World Animal Protection and the University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit exposes top zoos around the world where animals are abused and forced to take part in ...
HSUS first took a policy position on zoos in 1975, its board of directors concluding that it would be neither for nor against zoos, but would work against roadside menageries and regular zoos that could not improve. In 1984, HSUS adopted a policy that animals should not be taken from the wild for public display in zoos. [155]
In Defense Of Animals says, "In the wild, elephants thrive into their 60s, raising calves well into their 50s and roaming up to 30 miles daily. In zoos like Los Angeles Zoo, where enclosures are ...
Research in wild animal welfare has two focuses: the welfare of wild animals kept in captivity and the welfare of animals living in the wild. The former has addressed the situation of animals kept both for human use, as in zoos or circuses, or in rehabilitation centers. [62] [63] [64] The latter has examined how the welfare of non-domesticated ...
It has been suggested the number of animals hunted, kept as companions, used in laboratories, reared for the fur industry, raced, and used in zoos and circuses, is insignificant compared to farm animals, and therefore the "animal welfare issue" is numerically reducible to the "farm animal welfare issue". [14]
According to critics, some of these places -- known as roadside zoos -- are not accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums and many have a bad track record in their treatment of animals.
Because animals in zoos are killed for many reasons, such as old age or disease, just as pet animals are often euthanized because of health problems, it is beyond the scope of this list to identify every case where an animal is killed in a zoo. The list focuses on controversial, unusual or otherwise noteworthy cases where the incident was ...
The Bronx Zoo case went to the New York Supreme Court, which held that nonhuman animals do not have habeus corpus rights. Animal cruelty laws currently exist. It would be useful to improve those ...