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Originally Posted by Shaun
They act more as a go-between for the general public and animal awareness at large, and given the charity work centred in zoos (not to mention adoption) they're pretty harmless, and if anything helpful. Sure, captivity must suck, but the alternative is inevitable extinction in the wild anyway. A large number of species now only exist because of being bred in captivity.
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If a species isn't capable of surviving in the wild, then is it fair to keep it alive in a zoo? I don't think there's a definitive answer to that question because we could be talking about an animal whose habitat is being destroyed by humans or we could be talking about an animal like a panda which is too lazy to sustain itself... but it's an interesting question nonetheless. Should we be saving something that cannot save itself?
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