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Opinions?

Madagascar. The animals are probably arguing among themselves about that topic.

Animal 1: "We must free ourselves from the oppression of those hairless apes!"
Animal 2: "But where would we live?"
Animal 1: "Nature will provide us with every thing we need!"
Animal 2: "I don't know...I like having 6 meals a day..."
Animal 1: "Shut up! Liberty! Freedom!"

Sorry my mind's a bit muddy and this comes up.
To answer the question, I honestly don't know. Some zoos are worse than others.

Zoos help preserve many endangered species. Though we may be disturbed at seeing animals penned up in cages or compounds, there's not going to be any zoos shut down on the basis of this. Good, valuable, science is done in zoos.

I myself despise SeaWorld because that franchise actively covered up the harm and pain they cause their specimens. The same evidence of schism and subterfuge is not found in other programs.

I think a zoo should be where there is a lot bigger cage and HUMANS go into it so the animals won't hurt us and let all the animals walk around us 'cause this is the best way to see wild animals, not trapped in a cage.

Well I do support their breeding and genetic programs, they actually do a lot of help for endangered species. And I think it can be good to educate people on the animals. I would rather zoos than extinction.

I dunno. I always loved zoos as a kid but then I think about how these animals are taken out of their environments and put in "cages" for us to see them.

Zoos are not needed to save and preserve animals. Nature preserves/sanctuaries where people can't oogle at the animals are better and they can live in peace in places MADE to be just like the ones they were saved/removed from.

Think about it- would you want to be taken from your home and put in a cage "similar" to your home, where another species decides when you eat, teaches you to do tricks and comes in by the the thousands to come stick their ugly faces in your face? Would you want to have someone watching you eat, play, mate, pee and poop all day everyday? I think the answer is NO!

I have mixed feelings about zoos.

I do think that with all of the de-forestation, poaching and other human encroachment, there does become a greater need for zoos, wildlife sanctuaries and preserves. I think that most zoos do a great job education people about the impact humans have on the environment and what a species endangered status is.

For the most part, I don't think that zoos obtain animals from the wild any more; I think they use breeding systems to increase zoo population.

I would rather see animals in a zoo / sanctuary / preserve than to have a species be extinct.

Depends on the country! That is basically what it comes down to or the individual zoo. I have been to thee zoo's in Australia and they were all incredible and the animals adored their keepers. Some animals have to be in captivity because they are going extinct. That is another reason what zoo's are good for and some people forget it when they hear something about one zoo's. Just because one or three or five are bad doesn't mean their all bad because a lot do so much good work in looking after and protecting the animals.

I agree ^^

Depends on the zoo, its purpose, and the country, as others have stated.

I think all US zoos are probably ok. I agree that keeping rare animals in a zoo is better than letting them get wiped out. There are frogs from central America that would be extinct if scientists had not captured some and put them in a zoo.