Hook - What do you think of when you hear the word “zoo?” Do you picture a nice habitat or a spacious enclosure? Perhaps you think a zoo is a vacation for animals before they are returned to the wild?, Thesis Statement - These ideas couldn’t be further from the truth. Many animals who live in zoos have never lived in the wild nor do they return to the wild. Zoos are ultimately harmful to animals because of inhumane breeding, ineffective rehabilitation efforts, and small unnatural enclosures., Claim/Point 1 - Zoos harm animals because they breed them inhumanely., Evidence 1 - When zoos have too many animals, they kill the “extra” animals. An example of an unnecessary killing happened at the Copenhagen Zoo. A sterile but otherwise healthy 18-month old male giraffe was killed with a slaughterhouse bolt gun at the zoo.” ‘When breeding success increases it is sometimes necessary to euthanize,’ the zoo’s director said in a statement on the giraffe’s death., Reasoning/Explantion 1 - The zoo’s staff shot this giraffe because they didn’t find him useful for breeding. They had other male giraffes they could use for breeding instead. The giraffe’s worth was measured by his ability to produce, but animals are so much more than that., Claim/Point 2 - Zoos harm animals by not returning them to the wild after being rehabilitated., Evidence 2 - A report by National Geographic found that most zoos don’t have reintroduction to the wild programs. Out of the 145 known worldwide efforts to reintroduce animals to the wild, only 16 have proven to be successful. However, many of the animals released from captivity through these programs have not survived when they were released back into the wild., Reasoning/Explantion 2 - If zoos are going to claim they heal animals and then return them to the wild but really keep most of them in the zoo afterwards, that’s wrong! People claim zoos help endangered animals, but according to data only 11% of efforts have been successful–that doesn’t seem like success to me., Claim/Point 3 - Zoos don’t have enough resources to properly house the creatures they own. Natural, wild habitats cannot be recreated in spaces where animals are held captive, so this harms the animals., Evidence 3 - According to research, this harm is well documented. Polar bears have 18,000 times less space than they do in the wild. Seventy-five percent of elephants kept in zoos are overweight. Forty percent of lions in zoos pass away before their full life span in the wild., Reasoning/Explanation 3 - The data supports the argument that captive animals are not being helped. They aren’t living as long, aren’t healthy, and don’t have the freedom to roam!, Conclusion - Hopefully by now, when you think of a zoo, you don’t see spacious enclosures or vacations. Instead you see zoos as places of harm for animals.,

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