
#redirect Zoo
:''Zoo is also an adult magazine in the United Kingdom aimed at the male 18-35 age group.'' A zoological garden, or zoo for short, is a place where wild animals are encaged in an artificial environment and exhibited to the public. The first zoos were private menageries, usually belonging to kings. King Charles I started a zoo with a large python snake as the main attraction. The first public zoological garden was created in Vienna in 1752, when the Habsburg Emperors decided to grant public access to the former privately-owned Schönbrunn Palace menagerie, now called Tiergarten Schönbrunn Zoo Vienna. After the French Revolution, the Paris zoo was opened to the public. Over time, the mission of zoos has shifted from simply displaying exotic animals, to scientific study, and, later, to breeding them, and in particular maintaining populations of animals that are endangered species or even extinct in the wild. The first scientific zoological garden in the modern world was founded in London in 1828. It was opened to the public in the same year, as a way of funding its scientific work. Londoners soon shortened "zoological gardens" to "zoo." Most modern zoos keep animals in enclosures that attempt to replicate their natural habitats. Many zoos now have special buildings for nocturnal animals, with dim red lighting during the day, so the animals will be active when visitors are there, and bright lights at night to ensure that they sleep. A petting zoo features a combination of domestic animals and some wild species that are docile enough to touch and feed. Petting zoos are extremely popular with small children. In order to ensure the animals' health, the food is supplied by the zoo, either from vending machines or a kiosk nearby. In addition to independent petting zoos (also called children's farms), many general zoos contain one. Sometimes monkeys are not separated from the public, e.g. in the Apenheul Zoo in Apeldoorn. Peafowl are also frequently allowed to roam free in zoos. Nearly all large cities of the world have zoos, though of drastically varying size and quality. Modern zoos are very dynamic, and are always breeding animals, promoting conservation, and building new exhibits. Major zoos are important tourist attractions, sufficiently so that governments may underwrite or subsidize the zoo's operating expenses. Public funding of zoos is also justified by their educational value, and they are a common destination for school field trips. Even so, many zoos have signs that provide little more information than an animal’s species, diet, and natural range. Most zoo funding primarily comes from donations and entrance fees. Lion_resting_outside_of_her_natural_habitat.">Image:Lioness face close-up, lying down.jpg|thumb|Lion resting outside of her natural habitat. Zoos vary in size and quality—from drive-through parks to small roadside menageries with concrete slabs and iron bars. Birds’ wings may be clipped so that they cannot fly, and many animals who live in large herds or family groups in nature are kept alone or in small groups. Natural hunting and mating behaviors are virtually eliminated by regulated feeding and breeding regimens. More than 135 million people visit zoos in the United States and Canada every year, but most zoos operate at a loss and must find ways to cut costs or add gimmicks that will attract visitors. The ''Wall Street Journal'' reported that “nearly half of the country’s zoos are facing cutbacks this year … [a]ttendance, meanwhile, is down about 3% nationwide.” == Famous zoos == Two of the most famous zoos in the United States are the Bronx and San Diego Zoos. The Bronx Zoo (operated by the New York Zoological Society) is 265 acres (1.1 km²) and has more than 6,000 animals. It ranks as the largest zoo in size and animals. The San Diego Zoo is home to more than 4,000 animals and is a world-famous zoo. However, the largest zoo in the United States is the North Carolina Zoo at 535 acres. ==See also== * List of zoos * Wildlife park * Aquarium * Marine park * Bird park ==External links== * [http://www.zoo-talk.com Zoo-talk] features zoo and animal news from all over the world Gardens Landmarks Zoology Zoos simple:Zoo
==Photo of "a zoo"== I find it terribly amusing that the photo at the head of this article focuses on humans rather than animals or the zoo itself. --User:Feitclub 01:31, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC) * It is suprisingly difficult to take a picture of a 'zoo' in general and not have it be a picture of just animals, or people, or a cage. I chose this picture because it showed several features of a zoo, people (especially children), walkways, an animal enclosure, even an elephant. It did the best job of giving the overall 'feel' of the zoo. In the small version (on the zoo page) I agree, the people do stand out. Maybe someone else can add another picture that captures what a zoo is like. User:Lorax 02:48, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC) == Chunk of Zoo Text == I removed the following chunk of text from the main zoo article because it was not formatted at all, and had repeated text, and the content overlapped stuff already in the article. It looks like someone did a cut and paste job. Some of this information should be merged into the main article, which is why I moved it to the talk page. User:Lorax 03:10, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC) Controversies over Zoos A zoo is a park or an institution in which living animals are kept and usually exhibited to the public (dictionary.com). Zoos have existed back in to the beginning of civilization. The first zoo ever recorded was Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut whom established a zoo in Thebes around 1490 B.C.(Hatshepsut's zoo contained exotic animals collected from what is today Somalia, and it included leopards, monkeys and a giraffe. The ancient Assyrians, Chinese, Greeks and Mexicans also collected and displayed animals in their cities (Croke). Zoos have traditionally been a symbol of man’s dominance over nature. In the 19th century this changed into nationalism when Queen Victoria founded the London Zoological Gardens in 1828. This zoo was meant to show the vastness of the British Empire through all of the different animals it collected in its colonies throughout the world. These Zoos were the private collection of powerful wealthy people. In 1846 the Royal family lost interest for their Zoo (Croke). Instead of selling the animals they decided to let the general public in for an admission fee so that the Zoo could support itself. It was here in 1846 where the modern zoo was created whose new purpose was to entertain and inform the public. Should animals be held in Zoos? Do the pros of the animals needs being fulfilled, preserving endangered species, and improved habitats outweigh the cons that animals are abused in zoos, actually decrease the wild endangered population animals, and force animals to lead pointless lives? Animals are very territorial which is the key to their mind since familiar territory will allow them to avoid enemies and obtain food and water ( Martel 17). Animals spray there territory with urine in order to mark it as there’s. Zoo critics say that this territory does not compare to those of the wild because it is not nearly as large. What these critics fail to see is what we have done for ourselves we are now doing for animals. In nature humans would have to walk a mile or so to get water from the river, a distance in another direction to get berries, and then hunt all day for prey where one day failure could cost you your life (Martel 17). In between gathering all these necessities one would need to constantly worry about lions, snakes, leeches, ants, and other disagreeable factors of life (Martel). Humans have made houses where the water and food supply are constant and we are protected from the elements, parasites, and enemies. In our society we also have healthcare to make sure that everyone is enjoying life with a healthy body. This is all the same with an animal in a zoo. Their needs are meet through the zoo staff (Martel). It is more convenient for the animals to have the luxuries humans have in a smaller area. The animals in this sense are better taken care of in the zoo than in the wild. It is a known fact that many animals facing the option of escaping their enclosure often decide not to. In the Chicago zoo for example a Chimpanzee’s cage was left open (Martel 18). The chimp repeatedly slammed the door shut and screamed until a zoo keeper remedied the situation (Martel 18). Zoos also help dwindling species keep from going extinct. Many zoos participate in breeding rare animals and some even reintroduce their animals into the wild (Kraemer). Human population keeps increasing 1,100% each year driving robbing animals of their habitats (Kraemer). Therefore it is a necessity that organizations such as zoos exist. An example of the huge success Zoos have had in the reintroduction of endangered species is the reintroduction of the American Bison by the Bronx Zoo. In the early 1900’s there was an estimated population of only 300 wild American Bison (Kramer). In 1907 the Bronx zoo placed 15 Bison which it had carefully bred in the Wichita Forest Reserve in Oklahoma. The herd survived and in 1998 there was an estimated 100,000 Bison living on American reserves largely thanks to the Bronx zoo (Kramer). Zoos today that are accredited give animals better and more stable lives then they could live in the wild. Zoos in the United States can get accreditation through the American Zoo Association (AZA) (Drummond). Zoos that are accredited must abide by the Code of Professional Ethics “provides direction on ethical issues involving...animal health and welfare.”. These zoos place the comfort and safety of the animals before the entertainment value of the zoos. These zoos require that social animals such as monkeys be grouped together so that their social needs be fulfilled. These zoos also require full time veterinarians on the staff to ensure that animals live healthy lives (Drummond). In 2000 the AZA had accredited 184 zoos through out America. Defendants of zoos feel that these zoos offer better living conditions than that of the wild where animals face a much greater risk of starving, becoming sick or being killed by hunters or predators than do zoo animals (Drummond). Many critics of zoos feel that zoos are responsible for many “unnatural deaths”. A good example can be found in the Walt Disney Animal kingdom which is a 500 acre expanse of in Orlando, Florida (Sloan). When the zoo opened in 1998 several dozen protesters picketed the opening entrance “Disney should stick to Mickey Mouse.”, and “Life, liberty and justice for all beings”. The cause of the protests was the 31 animal fatalities within the zoo walls resulting from the preceding six months of animal stocking (Sloan). These deaths range from cranes being run over by trucks to otters eating poisonous berries(Sloan). Even large mammals died such as rhinoceros, cheetahs, and a hippopotamus (Sloan). This case was so controversial that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conducted a three-day investigation of Animal Kingdom. The investigation decided that the deaths were accidental and said that Disney should not be held accountable for them. This report further incited protestors who faulted the government who they felt was shielding the large corporation at the cost of animal lives (Sloan). Animal rights activist contend that zoos slaughter wild populations or rare animals rather than protect them. They point to brutal capturing methods in which live capture traps would be set but not checked for weeks (Croke). This became a major problem in the highlands of Africa when the highly sought after and endangered Silver-back Gorillas were starved to death in cages where the trappers had forgotten where they put them (Croke). They also point to the fact that in the wild mothers are often aggressively protective and trappers for zoos would kill the mothers in order to collect the offspring which were of more value since they would live longer in the zoos. This technique was used to capture baby apes, lions, and rhinoceroses. Killing proven reproducing animals in a trade off where the offspring is taken out of the wild gene-pool whose offspring will not be returned to the wild is clearly destructive to wild populations of animals (Croke). Zoos render animals lives pointless contends by imprisoning animals that other wise would be roaming free and by giving the animals food. For example the average caribou walks about 800 miles a year (Crawford). Caribous in zoos can’t come close in their smalls pens to walking 800 miles a year thus disrupting what their purpose in life is. An active advocate of this point of view is Virginia McKenna, co-author of Beyond the Bars. Mckenna calls for a total elimination of zoos because of the detrimental harm zoos cause to animals “For the four hours we spend in a zoo, the animals spend four years, or fourteen, perhaps even longer...day and night, summer and winter.” She points to the fact that animals in exhibit make the sacrifice of their lives in a small cage for the entertainment of people whom the majority only spend a few moments looking at. Another purpose of an animal life is to search for food which is what many animals do all day. In zoos animals are given food routinely which Mckena says “animals are robbed of the sense of purpose that pursuing food would otherwise provide. That sense of purposelessness leads to boredom and stereotypy”. Zoos date all the way back to the beginning of human civilization and have traditionally been a symbol of mans dominance over nature. Zoos were privately owned by powerful and wealthy individuals. In 1846 the royal family of London lost interest in their zoo and made it available to the public for an admission fee. Since the beginning of zoos circumstances have changed and new issues have arisen. Should animals be held in Zoos? Do the pros of the animals needs being fulfilled, preserving endangered species, and improved habitats outweigh the cons that animals are abused in zoos, actually decrease the wild endangered population animals, and force animals to lead pointless lives? --User:152.163.100.68 01:00, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)John Ganz == King Charles the first? == Assuming Charles I of England and his zoo is meant here, in which case it should be spell-corrected and wiki-linked to the right king (there are many Charles I's throughout history). As I can't find any reference verify this info about king Charles I and his zoo, left this untouched for time being.
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#redirect Zoo
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:''Zoo is also an adult magazine in the United Kingdom aimed at the male 18-35 age group.'' A zoological garden, or zoo for short, is a place where wild animals are encaged in an artificial environment and exhibited to the public. The first zoos were private menageries, usually belonging to kings. King Charles I started a zoo with a large python snake as the main attraction. The first public zoological garden was created in Vienna in 1752, when the Habsburg Emperors decided to grant public access to the former privately-owned Schönbrunn Palace menagerie, now called Tiergarten Schönbrunn Zoo Vienna. After the French Revolution, the Paris zoo was opened to the public. Over time, the mission of zoos has shifted from simply displaying exotic animals, to scientific study, and, later, to breeding them, and in particular maintaining populations of animals that are endangered species or even extinct in the wild. The first scientific zoological garden in the modern world was founded in London in 1828. It was opened to the public in the same year, as a way of funding its scientific work. Londoners soon shortened "zoological gardens" to "zoo." Most modern zoos keep animals in enclosures that attempt to replicate their natural habitats. Many zoos now have special buildings for nocturnal animals, with dim red lighting during the day, so the animals will be active when visitors are there, and bright lights at night to ensure that they sleep. A petting zoo features a combination of domestic animals and some wild species that are docile enough to touch and feed. Petting zoos are extremely popular with small children. In order to ensure the animals' health, the food is supplied by the zoo, either from vending machines or a kiosk nearby. In addition to independent petting zoos (also called children's farms), many general zoos contain one. Sometimes monkeys are not separated from the public, e.g. in the Apenheul Zoo in Apeldoorn. Peafowl are also frequently allowed to roam free in zoos. Nearly all large cities of the world have zoos, though of drastically varying size and quality. Modern zoos are very dynamic, and are always breeding animals, promoting conservation, and building new exhibits. Major zoos are important tourist attractions, sufficiently so that governments may underwrite or subsidize the zoo's operating expenses. Public funding of zoos is also justified by their educational value, and they are a common destination for school field trips. Even so, many zoos have signs that provide little more information than an animal’s species, diet, and natural range. Most zoo funding primarily comes from donations and entrance fees. Lion_resting_outside_of_her_natural_habitat.">Image:Lioness face close-up, lying down.jpg|thumb|Lion resting outside of her natural habitat. Zoos vary in size and quality—from drive-through parks to small roadside menageries with concrete slabs and iron bars. Birds’ wings may be clipped so that they cannot fly, and many animals who live in large herds or family groups in nature are kept alone or in small groups. Natural hunting and mating behaviors are virtually eliminated by regulated feeding and breeding regimens. More than 135 million people visit zoos in the United States and Canada every year, but most zoos operate at a loss and must find ways to cut costs or add gimmicks that will attract visitors. The ''Wall Street Journal'' reported that “nearly half of the country’s zoos are facing cutbacks this year … [a]ttendance, meanwhile, is down about 3% nationwide.” == Famous zoos == Two of the most famous zoos in the United States are the Bronx and San Diego Zoos. The Bronx Zoo (operated by the New York Zoological Society) is 265 acres (1.1 km²) and has more than 6,000 animals. It ranks as the largest zoo in size and animals. The San Diego Zoo is home to more than 4,000 animals and is a world-famous zoo. However, the largest zoo in the United States is the North Carolina Zoo at 535 acres. ==See also== * List of zoos * Wildlife park * Aquarium * Marine park * Bird park ==External links== * [http://www.zoo-talk.com Zoo-talk] features zoo and animal news from all over the world Gardens Landmarks Zoology Zoos simple:Zoo
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==Photo of "a zoo"== I find it terribly amusing that the photo at the head of this article focuses on humans rather than animals or the zoo itself. --User:Feitclub 01:31, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC) * It is suprisingly difficult to take a picture of a 'zoo' in general and not have it be a picture of just animals, or people, or a cage. I chose this picture because it showed several features of a zoo, people (especially children), walkways, an animal enclosure, even an elephant. It did the best job of giving the overall 'feel' of the zoo. In the small version (on the zoo page) I agree, the people do stand out. Maybe someone else can add another picture that captures what a zoo is like. User:Lorax 02:48, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC) == Chunk of Zoo Text == I removed the following chunk of text from the main zoo article because it was not formatted at all, and had repeated text, and the content overlapped stuff already in the article. It looks like someone did a cut and paste job. Some of this information should be merged into the main article, which is why I moved it to the talk page. User:Lorax 03:10, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC) Controversies over Zoos A zoo is a park or an institution in which living animals are kept and usually exhibited to the public (dictionary.com). Zoos have existed back in to the beginning of civilization. The first zoo ever recorded was Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut whom established a zoo in Thebes around 1490 B.C.(Hatshepsut's zoo contained exotic animals collected from what is today Somalia, and it included leopards, monkeys and a giraffe. The ancient Assyrians, Chinese, Greeks and Mexicans also collected and displayed animals in their cities (Croke). Zoos have traditionally been a symbol of man’s dominance over nature. In the 19th century this changed into nationalism when Queen Victoria founded the London Zoological Gardens in 1828. This zoo was meant to show the vastness of the British Empire through all of the different animals it collected in its colonies throughout the world. These Zoos were the private collection of powerful wealthy people. In 1846 the Royal family lost interest for their Zoo (Croke). Instead of selling the animals they decided to let the general public in for an admission fee so that the Zoo could support itself. It was here in 1846 where the modern zoo was created whose new purpose was to entertain and inform the public. Should animals be held in Zoos? Do the pros of the animals needs being fulfilled, preserving endangered species, and improved habitats outweigh the cons that animals are abused in zoos, actually decrease the wild endangered population animals, and force animals to lead pointless lives? Animals are very territorial which is the key to their mind since familiar territory will allow them to avoid enemies and obtain food and water ( Martel 17). Animals spray there territory with urine in order to mark it as there’s. Zoo critics say that this territory does not compare to those of the wild because it is not nearly as large. What these critics fail to see is what we have done for ourselves we are now doing for animals. In nature humans would have to walk a mile or so to get water from the river, a distance in another direction to get berries, and then hunt all day for prey where one day failure could cost you your life (Martel 17). In between gathering all these necessities one would need to constantly worry about lions, snakes, leeches, ants, and other disagreeable factors of life (Martel). Humans have made houses where the water and food supply are constant and we are protected from the elements, parasites, and enemies. In our society we also have healthcare to make sure that everyone is enjoying life with a healthy body. This is all the same with an animal in a zoo. Their needs are meet through the zoo staff (Martel). It is more convenient for the animals to have the luxuries humans have in a smaller area. The animals in this sense are better taken care of in the zoo than in the wild. It is a known fact that many animals facing the option of escaping their enclosure often decide not to. In the Chicago zoo for example a Chimpanzee’s cage was left open (Martel 18). The chimp repeatedly slammed the door shut and screamed until a zoo keeper remedied the situation (Martel 18). Zoos also help dwindling species keep from going extinct. Many zoos participate in breeding rare animals and some even reintroduce their animals into the wild (Kraemer). Human population keeps increasing 1,100% each year driving robbing animals of their habitats (Kraemer). Therefore it is a necessity that organizations such as zoos exist. An example of the huge success Zoos have had in the reintroduction of endangered species is the reintroduction of the American Bison by the Bronx Zoo. In the early 1900’s there was an estimated population of only 300 wild American Bison (Kramer). In 1907 the Bronx zoo placed 15 Bison which it had carefully bred in the Wichita Forest Reserve in Oklahoma. The herd survived and in 1998 there was an estimated 100,000 Bison living on American reserves largely thanks to the Bronx zoo (Kramer). Zoos today that are accredited give animals better and more stable lives then they could live in the wild. Zoos in the United States can get accreditation through the American Zoo Association (AZA) (Drummond). Zoos that are accredited must abide by the Code of Professional Ethics “provides direction on ethical issues involving...animal health and welfare.”. These zoos place the comfort and safety of the animals before the entertainment value of the zoos. These zoos require that social animals such as monkeys be grouped together so that their social needs be fulfilled. These zoos also require full time veterinarians on the staff to ensure that animals live healthy lives (Drummond). In 2000 the AZA had accredited 184 zoos through out America. Defendants of zoos feel that these zoos offer better living conditions than that of the wild where animals face a much greater risk of starving, becoming sick or being killed by hunters or predators than do zoo animals (Drummond). Many critics of zoos feel that zoos are responsible for many “unnatural deaths”. A good example can be found in the Walt Disney Animal kingdom which is a 500 acre expanse of in Orlando, Florida (Sloan). When the zoo opened in 1998 several dozen protesters picketed the opening entrance “Disney should stick to Mickey Mouse.”, and “Life, liberty and justice for all beings”. The cause of the protests was the 31 animal fatalities within the zoo walls resulting from the preceding six months of animal stocking (Sloan). These deaths range from cranes being run over by trucks to otters eating poisonous berries(Sloan). Even large mammals died such as rhinoceros, cheetahs, and a hippopotamus (Sloan). This case was so controversial that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conducted a three-day investigation of Animal Kingdom. The investigation decided that the deaths were accidental and said that Disney should not be held accountable for them. This report further incited protestors who faulted the government who they felt was shielding the large corporation at the cost of animal lives (Sloan). Animal rights activist contend that zoos slaughter wild populations or rare animals rather than protect them. They point to brutal capturing methods in which live capture traps would be set but not checked for weeks (Croke). This became a major problem in the highlands of Africa when the highly sought after and endangered Silver-back Gorillas were starved to death in cages where the trappers had forgotten where they put them (Croke). They also point to the fact that in the wild mothers are often aggressively protective and trappers for zoos would kill the mothers in order to collect the offspring which were of more value since they would live longer in the zoos. This technique was used to capture baby apes, lions, and rhinoceroses. Killing proven reproducing animals in a trade off where the offspring is taken out of the wild gene-pool whose offspring will not be returned to the wild is clearly destructive to wild populations of animals (Croke). Zoos render animals lives pointless contends by imprisoning animals that other wise would be roaming free and by giving the animals food. For example the average caribou walks about 800 miles a year (Crawford). Caribous in zoos can’t come close in their smalls pens to walking 800 miles a year thus disrupting what their purpose in life is. An active advocate of this point of view is Virginia McKenna, co-author of Beyond the Bars. Mckenna calls for a total elimination of zoos because of the detrimental harm zoos cause to animals “For the four hours we spend in a zoo, the animals spend four years, or fourteen, perhaps even longer...day and night, summer and winter.” She points to the fact that animals in exhibit make the sacrifice of their lives in a small cage for the entertainment of people whom the majority only spend a few moments looking at. Another purpose of an animal life is to search for food which is what many animals do all day. In zoos animals are given food routinely which Mckena says “animals are robbed of the sense of purpose that pursuing food would otherwise provide. That sense of purposelessness leads to boredom and stereotypy”. Zoos date all the way back to the beginning of human civilization and have traditionally been a symbol of mans dominance over nature. Zoos were privately owned by powerful and wealthy individuals. In 1846 the royal family of London lost interest in their zoo and made it available to the public for an admission fee. Since the beginning of zoos circumstances have changed and new issues have arisen. Should animals be held in Zoos? Do the pros of the animals needs being fulfilled, preserving endangered species, and improved habitats outweigh the cons that animals are abused in zoos, actually decrease the wild endangered population animals, and force animals to lead pointless lives? --User:152.163.100.68 01:00, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)John Ganz == King Charles the first? == Assuming Charles I of England and his zoo is meant here, in which case it should be spell-corrected and wiki-linked to the right king (there are many Charles I's throughout history). As I can't find any reference verify this info about king Charles I and his zoo, left this untouched for time being.
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