Respecting the freedom of wild animals

Greetings!

Going to the zoo has always been one thing I'm looking forward to and this is because I have never had such an experience before. Though, I have read and heard the zoo adventures but I have not personally and physically experienced which I see as a missed opportunity to me.

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Having spent a year on campus where there's a zoological garden, I never deemed it fit for once to go there and see to myself what the zoological garden or the wildlife looks like.

But all the same, all I have heard, seen or even read about wildlife has really got me to know more about it. But as we all know that seeing is believing, I would like to see what I have seen in the real sense of it.

Moreover, as much as I like what the zoological garden has brought to us as a means of entertainment and also in preserving the wildlife from going into extinction, I'm not in total support of keeping these animals away from their natural habitat. Though, keeping them might always help us to see them for real as some of our people wouldn't have got to see how this animal looks hadn't it been that they're being caged for people to see and also for commercial purposes.

But if we should be fair enough with ourselves, keeping these wild animals from their natural habitat is like putting them in everlasting bondage. I would even liken it to humans being kept under the water which is not their natural habitat which could affect the operation of an individual man.

Therefore, keeping them out of their natural habitat for human entertainment in my own opinion is like making them suffer and regret their existence. Though, they may be feeding well and even treated well in their cages, but this would not make them live better. Though they may be a subject of prey to their fellow wildlife animals, caging them doesn't guarantee their freedom, they may even live longer than other wildlife animals on the field, but living longer doesn't guarantee living better.

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One thing I believe in life is that, when a man or even an animal is given the freedom to live in his natural habitat, there would be a seamless operation on the part of such animal or man. But once taken out of the natural habitat, nothing is left again in that person or animal. Though the artificial habitat may be designed to look like a natural habitat, let's call a spade a spade, it is not the same as everything would be confined. A fish taking out water would not live long that's it.

For instance, how do you think a lion that was supposed to be running in its natural habitat in search of its prey for hours would be happy in a closed cage? There's no way. How also do you expect a bird of the air that was supposed to be flying in the sky would be free to do so in a caged atmosphere? That would not even happen. So, it's like depriving them of their freedom just for human enjoyment and to me, it's not that fair to them. God that created them in the forest has His own purpose for them to be in the forest and not among humans.

In conclusion, I would say, there's benefits of keeping them in the cage which are for human entertainment, commercial purposes and to even make them live long and free from being killed by their tough one among them in the forest, but notwithstanding, it's not good enough to keep them out of their bounds as this would only amount to depriving them of their freedom and joy.

This is my entry to the week 173, Edition 02 of the weekly Featured contest in the Hive Learners community.

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