Facts About Animals In Captivity

Elephants are not the only big mammals that require more space than they are given in captivity.

Facts about animals in captivity. This may include for example farms private homes and zoos. Many wild animals in captivity even self-harm due to the frustration and boredom of constant confinement. Such animals that are in captivity because of this include dolphins killer whales chimpanzees and many more.

Marmosets are commonly found in the tropical rainforests of South America. Dolphin and whales in captivity are often documented with compromised teeth often the result of frustrated chewing on their tank walls. From birds to elephants animals are lovingly attached to their closest kin and when a separation occurs their hearts are broken.

Many captive wild animals in zoos display stereotypic behaviour not seen in their wild cousins such as obsessively pacing or circling or frantic swaying on the spot. Elephants in the wild have one of the largest home ranges often walking up to 40 miles each day. Animals who live under human control or care are in captivity.

Fin Flop For captive orcas confinement in small tanks leads to the well-documented fin flop in male orcas a condition noted in 100 of captive male orcas and less than 1 in wild male orcas. During the outbreak of World War II London Zoo killed all their venomous animals in case the zoo was bombed and the animals escaped. Liz Tyson the director of the Captive Animals Protection Society supports the journal Conservation Biology stating Zoos present an entirely false view of both the animals themselves and of the real and very urgent issues facing many speciesZoos do not educate nor do they empower or inspire childrenCaptive Animals Protection Society 2015.

Maruyama Zoo in Japan unsuccessfully tried to mate a pair of hyenas between 2010 and 2014 before realizing they were both males. Otherwise the animal would likely perish in the wild because of being unable to care for or defend themselves. Animals in captivity display obsessive compulsive and stereotypic behaviours in addition to abnormal behaviours such as cannibalism and self-mutilation in more extreme cases as seen in animals farmed for food such as pigs and chickens.

Living in captivity has been found to lead some animals to neurosis and depression. Animals in captivity are considered domesticated animals such as petslivestock and animals in zoosanimals used in testing. The earliest record of animals in captivity goes far back as 2009 BC in countries such Macedonia China and Rome.