User:KiaraSchauer/sandbox

Animals held in captivity, date back as far as 2,000 B.C. when archaeological evidence showed that lions were kept in cages in Macedonia.

One of the first to collect wild animals were the Greeks; the Greeks collected wild animals for educational purposes. While the Roman Empire focused more on the wild nature of animals. The emperors that collected wild animals would hold public services and have animals fight to the death with one another or with gladiators. It's believed by historians that rulers that kept animals was for the purpose of showing off power and wealth. European explorers in the middle ages, would bring back exotic species from all over the world to be put in menageries, cages or small pits, for people to view animals. Eventually medieval entrepreneurs took menageries on the road which would later be known as circuses. The first zoos that are noted were those in the Aztec civilization. In the eighteenth century, zoos were established all throughout France, Spain, and Austria.

Zoos

Animals in zoos are not only caged for life but cut from their lives outside where they develop a full range of interests and needs. When animals are kept in cages, they are psychologically tortured because they lose control of their own life and their environment. Animals that come in packs are often forced in solitary confinement; while animals who travel alone are forced into close contact with others. Some animals are even forced to be confined next to there predators; where they are in constant worry. Animal Equality carried out an investigation and observed animals living with extreme anxiety. These animals cannot live as they we're born to do. They are instead pressured and demanded upon to perform. Many zoos have said that animals are kept in zoos for educational purposes. What zoos actually teach people is that humans have the right to enslave animals and that animals have no purpose but for entertainment.