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I've been asked this question a few times over the course of my life and I never really had much of an opinion either way until really recently... I think it is wrong to keep animals in captivity. You can see them, particularly apex predators, going mad as they pace around the small confines of the area they are kept in and I think it's really upsetting to watch. I've been to zoos before and I've got to say, I don't even feel like I benefitted from it. I think if I lived in a time where we didn't have Google or YouTube, I would marvel at these exotic animals that I'd never seen before - but the fact of the matter is that I don't really care if a zoo has a new panda cub or a new polar bear because I can just google what such things look like, or pick up a book, or if I really wanted, go on some kind of safari to see animals in their natural habitat.

I think zoos belonged to a time when people wanted to explore the world and there was still a lot of mystery out there. That is no longer the case today and I think zoos should become a thing of the past. People don't learn anything from watching animals becoming demented in cages. What, then, is the point of a modern zoo?