Zoos are fake - you don't really learn a whole lot about the animal there and apparently people only spend a few seconds looking at each animal... see zoocheck, which also recommends "zoos" that are good, and doing real conservation and education. http://www.zoocheck.com/links.html
you don't really learn a whole lot about the animal there and apparently people only spend a few seconds looking at each animalnow that really depends on the visitor though. In all Zoo's I've been (not many, admittedly) you can read about every animal where it comes from, how it lives there etc etc. (it angers me if I hear children asking "what animal's that?" and parents answer with plainly wrong names or facts although it's written everything there, just one meter away from where they're standing :( if the children are interested let them learn something). And although people might be interested in different animals and thus not look closely at all of them, the majority definitely does not just stroll by without looking at the animals for more than a few seconds - that would be a waste of the entrance money too. many zoos also offer workshops, seminars and programs for children and adults alike to find out more about animals, wildlife and nature in general
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btw, before you kill me for it... I'm not saying at all that there aren't zoos where animals are kept in way too small cages being bored out of their minds and slowly driving into madness or behavioural problems or that zoos are the place to be for animals, I'm just saying it's not all black and white and that things are changing towards better conditions
you just backed me up though... parents giving false information to the children. Even the zoo educational signage has been found to contain false information
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