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Past Originated to

Present Continues to

Place Built to

Price Attract masses - to

Purpose(of visitors)

70% of time spent solely to

ENTERTAIN

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No natural selection in breeding

Bred for captivity

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Capture Transport Confinement

Physical Psychological

Traumatic Experience

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• Life span halved

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• Tinker-bell elephant suffered ‘176 gashes and cuts’

• Zoo babies - Crowd-pleasers – Killed later

• Over 60% has scars

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Stated• Education• Conservation

Reality• Entertainment• Breeding for Self Sustenance• Trauma

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References• “Critics Question China’s Worldwide Panda Profit,” The Age, 5 Apr. 2003.

• “Animal Activists Get Wish as Abused Elephant Is Moving to New Home in Tennessee,” Associated Press, 25 Jan. 2000.

• Michael Satchell, “Cruel and Usual: How Some of America’s Best Zoos Get Rid of Their Old, Infirm, and Unwanted Animals,” U.S. News and World Report, 5 Aug. 2002

• William Booth, “ Naked Ape New Zoo Attraction; Surprise Results From People-Watching Study,” The Washington Post, 14 Mar. 1991.

• Brooks Barnes, “Outings: A Bear Market for Zoos,” The Wall Street Journal, 30 May 2003.

• Amboseli Elephant Research Project, letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 24 Jun. 2003.

• History and purpose of zoos: http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:LM133q7p1k4J:www.agtv.vic.edu.au/docs2008/Zoo/History%2520and%2520purpose%2520of%2520zoos.doc+Are+zoos+serving+a+purpose&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk

• Zoos: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/zoos.htm

• Truth about zoos By Rama Kumaraswamy Thoopal: http://www.pitara.com/discover/earth/online.asp?story=101

• Zoos and animal rights: the ethics of keeping animals By Stephen St. C. Bostock : http://books.google.com/books?id=H3jOMqEjo3UC&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=Are+zoos+serving+a+purpose&source=bl&ots=Z-YhoC7cL-&sig=-80oU7jRx8k0JwlSNKAZ-4eDPT8&hl=en&ei=tenhStDsOYH46QOlusDlAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Are%20zoos%20serving%20a%20purpose&f=false

• Sanctuary Standards: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/sanctuarystandards.htm

• Purpose of Zoos by Bill Baker: http://www.reporternews.com/news/2008/mar/26/purpose-zoos/?printer=1/

• African Conservation Foundation: http://www.africanconservation.org/dcforum/DCForumID33/975.html

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