Spent the day at the zoo with my bestie Madison and her adorable 4-year-old, Audrey 🐒🦒💛

@MamaButterfly Good point, but Zoos also maintain populations that would be or are going extinct and try to get the young from the mothers once weed and back into a habitat reintroduction plan. So, it is sad yet there is a natural animal world concern outside of what we see locked in little cages.

@WillaKissing No they are not. Perhaps they are in some places, however these animals and species are put into confined areas for our viewing pleasure, they are not maintained, but regulated.
They are regulated by state and government. Who profits off of it? Honestly. Us the viewers so we can see them and pay money to view them as they are caged.
Aquariums are no different than zoos.
Many of these animals and all other species are put there for our viewing pleasure, so we can tell others how we saw some exotic animal.
I don't mean to be like a Debby downer but honestly. I went to the zoo once and it saddened me.
I also went to an Aquarium once too and watched a dolphin show when I was about 16 years old.
Then the movie "Free Willy" came out! That movie was heartbreaking. Have you ever watched Blackfish? I haven't either, for I cannot bare to watch it because of my daughter's love of dolphins.
Have you ever seen what they do to polar bears? I haven't but I saw one when I went to the zoo with my daughter and it was in a glass cage.
The zoo is nothing but profit for exotic animals.

@MamaButterfly Capitalism is out of control, zoo patrons need to boycott those venders out of business.

@NativePortlander1970 that's why I always pack a lunch when we go to our zoo

@Cigarguy That's what we did too when I was a kid, pb&j with chips.