Do you think keeping animals in zoos and circuses to entertain human-beings is selfish and inhumane? Why and why not?
Do animals have the right to live freely?
Do you think keeping animals in zoos and circuses to entertain human-beings is selfish and inhumane? Why and why not?
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Watsana R.
9/27/2010 02:47:47 pm
I believed, it’s depend of the situation is. However I do agree that animals have the right to leave freely. There is big difference between a zoo and a circus regarding the use and welfare of the animals, many zoos play an important role in saving endangered animal species. However, I do agree that circuses offer animals for entertainment in a selfish and inhumane way.
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veniamin susin
9/29/2010 09:09:39 am
are right to live freely?
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veniamin susin
9/29/2010 10:52:17 am
the rest Often here in America home pets get treated better then humans. Lot of people don't wont to take care of children, they hire babysitter but they can spend hours tacking care of pets. I have seen plenty of times where kids get yelled at for ruining something or getting something dirty, and often animals don't get in trouble for creating bigger problems.
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Fatmir.K
9/30/2010 02:59:59 am
Animals have the right to live freely, but this depends to different cases. Sure that using animals to entertain human-beings is not a good thing. I have seen different zoos and I have noticed that animals live in good conditions of life. In some zoos they have enough space, like in the nature and may be they feel free also in that context. This because in zoos may be they are not free to move from a place to another, but they have the life guaranted . There is always someone who take care of them and who give them food. If they live freely in the nature, they will be often in risk of life and nobody is going to protect them.
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Tatyana K.
9/30/2010 06:43:26 am
Some species of animals are almost extinct from the planet. For example, there are only a few pandas left in the world. Zoos are doing a great job to keep the entire number of pandas alive. The San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park take care of the animals and allow them to live freely. The Park has a large variety of wild animals including species from all the continents in the world. The park also has the world's largest veterinary hospital that keeps animals in good health. I support natural environment zoos where animals do not suffer like in typical zoos where they are exhibit in cages. People who work with animals usually love them and take good care of them. There was a story during World War II where the workers of the zoo showed heroic act: the people suffered from hunger, but continued to feed animal in order to keep them alive. On other hand, when people torture animals, like when they use them for income and don’t take good care of living things, it is selfish and inhumane. For instance, same photographers use animals in their business. There was a story about one photographer who pulled out all the teeth of a monkey so it wouldn’t bite customers. Because of that, the monkey became very sick and weak. Animals cannot defend themselves from human’s cruel treatment. There are organizations that protect animals. They protect, control and check up on the living conditions of animals.
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Lyubov H
10/1/2010 03:08:24 am
I think wild animals should not be allowed in circuses because they belong to the wild and it's cruel to make them perform. There are plenty humans who are willing to entertain people. Circuses themselves are fine as long as they don't have any animals. The human performing always have choices, but animals don't.They can't say what they want, and how they are feeling.They often depend of people,of their activities. It is wrong to keep wild animals in small cages. Wild animals in circuses should be banned because they are harmed and hurt. I want wild animals to live in their natural habitat and not to be used to entertain people. There is only one place for wild animals and that is the wild,where they are free,and are living in their natural habitat.
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Bénédicte C.
10/1/2010 09:02:26 am
I think animals have the right to live freely. They have to live freely if they are born free.
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Jenny M
10/1/2010 04:11:06 pm
In my opinion, animals have the right to live freely. Although, they are not human beings, we should treat them fairly.
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Valentyna Ryshkova
10/1/2010 05:35:47 pm
There are two kinds of animals. The first kind of animals live in the forest and mountains. These animals are born in nature. They live a free life. Every animal wants to live a free life. God said that animals are meant for people. Sometimes people kill animals so they can be eaten. Also, people kill animals for fun, such as hunting and fishing. In a zoo, animals can live safely. Many people go to zoos so that they can see animals. Zoos are a good idea because little children can look at the animals. Children learn about animals in school, and then go see them at the zoo. Children love animals and may want to work with animals later. People do not see animals in nature so much. I will never go to India or Africa, so I will not see an elephant in nature. The only way I can see an elephant is at the zoo. Circus animals are very interesting. Almost everyone likes to go to the circus. It is a very good show. Animals do not enjoy the circus. Animals only yet sugar to be in circus. People enjoy the circus more than animals,and the circus is very good business. It is better for animals to live in the wild than live with a circus. Some people keep animals at home as pets. My friend has a large black dog at his home. Some people have caws and sheep. These animals are very important for everyone. For example, I think that chickens and turkeys are very important. I think, these animals are very delicious.
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Changmin Han
10/2/2010 05:14:36 am
Of course, animals have the right to live freely. But if human exist constantly, animals can’t live freely. These discussions should also talk, because human beings. I think we have to do that selfish, inhumane, because of the food. Do I just eat vegetables? I don’t want to do that. For example, do you know PETA? I think this is ‘People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’. This is nonsense, because they eat meat, wear a fur coat, and drink milk. If they want to treat animals for the ethical, they need to stop that. Of course, they can’t because people can’t live without animals. Think about it, clothes, comforter, soda, milk, food, and anything. Made in animals products are everywhere. And PETA people an exhibitionist. They always expose their body. They shouldn’t expose your body in public like that. That is disgusting, and they are very selfish people. Definitely, although human exist on the earth, animals what cannot be helped. In addition, zoos or circuses are made in human’s selfish mind. If you want to delete that, you have to delete yourself. We can’t live without animals. So we have to save animals. Also don’t think about animals are entertainer.
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Alena P
10/2/2010 05:51:11 am
I think animals have the right to live freely, and keeping animals in zoos and circuses to entertain human-beings is selfish and inhumane. I do not like walking in a zoo or circus, for me a lot more interesting to watch the transfer on the Discovery channel about the wild and its inhabitants. What is the reason to keep animals in captivity? That a person can walk and are risen them as they are poor suffer in small cages? It's selfish! Yes, kids love it, but it's because they do not know all sides of it. But for the sake of children can have a pet such as cat or dog, not necessarily torturing wild animals that have bits in their place, because nature decreed it. Everything has be in their places.
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toan n
10/2/2010 08:56:05 am
Of course have the right to live freely. For example, the animals like human, but different between human and animal that human know to speak, think. Animal can’t do that, but they have feeling. They know love, sex and have family like human. They protect their family firmly like human do. Why they don’t the right to live freely. I disagree keeping animals in circuses. For example, when they live in the circus, their life aren’t belong to them anymore, their life is belong to their owner. They are slave. They’re beaten by the trainer. When the trainer trains them but they don’t follow, they got beaten from their owner such as monkey, elephant… but absolutely they is born for freedom, not for entertainment. They have their own life in their nature, not in the circuses. They aren’t a tool for human earn money from them, even the animals have talents. I agree keeping animals in the zoos because some animals are becoming rarely on the planet. They need protection of human. Those animals have endanger to extinct such as black rhino, south china tiger, panda… they have to live in the zoo because human will help to keep their race, but they still live in good environment like their own nature land.
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Normita D
10/2/2010 09:25:17 am
I do believe that have the right to live freely. We need to protect their environment
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Veronica C
10/2/2010 09:44:32 am
This question might have positive feelings or negative. I’ve never thought about this, because I never have been to circus and I‘ve been to zoo twice in my life. I don’t know what to say.
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fatima Hernandez
10/2/2010 05:30:41 pm
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Rostislav Kh.
10/3/2010 05:04:27 am
I think that animals have a right to live freely. They are perfectly adapted for free life. Many years ago people influenced on life of animals less than now. Now there is no one untouched place on earth. People strongly restricted animals. I think that life of animals in zoos and circuses is not very bad. People feed them and take care of them. Also animals are in safety there. In the wild nature they can be killed by a predator or a hunter. They can get sick or can starve there. In zoos, there are everyting for life except a freedom. I don't think that it is cruelly and brutally to hold animals in captivity. Animals do not have higher intelligence like people. They can not feel and think like a person. They can not think about their freedom. Also, they know nothing about their rights. And they have no duties except those which their instincts demand from them. Only people have a right to be free. Therefore, people often fight for their freedom. The animal world lives under the law instincts.
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Lyudmyla G
10/3/2010 07:52:10 am
I think everyone like animals.Some people like animals more than birds,some people like birds more than animals.But all of them want to live and to be happy.Animals like as people want to be free.They make their own houses,they have places where they live and they have babies.All kind of animals have a different place for living.But very often people forgot that animals want to be free.People catch them and put into the cages and hold them for long time.Sometimes humans catch big animals and forgot that animals may leave their babies.Maybe those babies will die without their parents.It is sad but that happened very often.Animals love their babies like a people and want to be together.When we look at free animals they are so happy but when we see same kind of animals at zoo,they are unhappy.Why?They have here good food,house and someone take care of them ,but animals want to be free.God made their free and they can be free.I think if all animals will be free our planet will be more interesting .We would see many kind of animals in worldwide,right now we can see them only in zoo.Many kind of animals dead because people killed them.Animals like as people sometimes they feel same feeling like human.When people in prison they are unhappy same with animals.People want to be free,animals want to be free too.
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Serhiy D
10/3/2010 08:25:25 am
My opinion,animals wild have to live freely.I think animals that live in zoos feel not freely because they like live in nature.In fact,one time when I leved in Ukraine I catched hare and put in cage.Its feels very bad.Its five days does eat tneh I its let go.I think animals like nature they feel freely.People love fredom too.For example,people in joil same animals in cage.But some poeople have good business witn animals.They make good condition for animals.This good idea, many people go to soo with their children they have fun ,if no zoos many people don't see animals near.But some people endanger animals inhumane relation I think it's very bad.I think animals have the right live freely.
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Tetyana Sh
10/3/2010 08:35:44 am
All organism have the right to live freely.Plant <eat> sunshines and mineral matterial containgin in ground and air.Animals which eat plants to form one group.This group eat vegetation includ the most various organisms and small insect,and rabbit.Also animals eat other animals we colled their predator.Such a relationship between animal and plants called food chain.The animals eat different foodthat food chain intertwine and formcomplex system relationship.The organisms of one system interact between itself and depending friend from friend.Animals which eat remainder kill other animals bring profit delete dead vegetable animals remainder.Thereby they clean our embience.A lot of animals jeopardized to disappeaances of the accustomed wild area on earth give way their own place for house,road,the less places remains for wild animals.That animals can live they have to eat sufficient amount of the food which now they do not have enough and as a result animals can disappear completly.I think that animals have the right to live freely becouse if the animals do not live we do not live with a good helth eathir.I know sometimes they very dangerous,but people are dangerous for them too.
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Inderdeep G
10/3/2010 12:06:34 pm
I think animal have right to live freely. Animals are a part of nature. They have right to live and eat freely. But human beings have habit to control every thing. We don’t control ourselves and we destroy nature. We cut forests, build roads, and houses for ourselves. Because of us animals have less space to live and eat freely; god made a food chain for all animals. For example, some animals eat small animals and some are vegetarian. Some varieties of animals are disappearing, and some are endangered. That’s why we need zoos to preserve them in natural environment, not in cages. Because of zoos kids can learn about animals, the endangered species, and they will learn not to use animals as entertainment. Some selfish people use animals to make money (ex. Animals used in circuses).
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Vasylysa M.
10/3/2010 12:53:59 pm
I think it’s not a good idea to keep animals in zoos, because animals have taken away almost all ability to move, and they have all their lives suffer from what cannot satisfy the natural need to move. Cells hardly equipped. Animals lacking virtually everything they need in natural conditions, such as the ability to climb for the monkeys that live in trees, or being able to take baths for polar bears and begemots. Elephants kept on short chains, mud and water pools required for skin care is almost always absent. These mobile animals can make the most of one step forward and one step back. Therefore, they are kept up until the end of his chain back and forth. In this animal steadily move her head up and down or shake its trunk. These mobile animals can make the most of one step forward and one step back. Therefore, they are kept up until the end of his chain back and forth. In this animal steadily move her head up and down or shake its trunk. This content eventually leads to mental disorder, which manifests itself inter alia in the forced swaying movements - the so-called "weaving." These intelligent animals are suffering from absolute idleness. In most cases, the elephants cannot even lie, because for several series of “chained" animals are not enough space.
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Paraskoviya M.
10/3/2010 01:32:11 pm
Personally I am against zoos and circuses, because I think animal suffer, they set conditions. I think Animals deserve the same respect we give to other human beings. Their feelings can be hurt just as bad and don't like to be whipped either. I do not think it’s right to use animals in the circus.
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Trong H
10/3/2010 01:49:43 pm
Animals definitely have the right to live freely and I think keeping animals in zoos and circuses to entertain human beings is selfish and inhumane because every animal have the right to live as much as possible according to our natures and to express our individual characters. The right to be valued for who they are, not for how they can be used. The right to physical,
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Snezhana Shloma
10/3/2010 02:58:23 pm
I think animals don't have a right to be freely in some cases. One way i think
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Ivan R.
10/3/2010 03:08:27 pm
i think is it not right keeping animals in zoo and circuses ,because animals as a people want to live freely.It is very cruel to keep animals in the cage,same as a people in jail.People don't think what feels animals in the cage,they think about their business and money.Even if animals get accustomed live in the cage,anyway they miss and want to live in wild nature.Even now people in all over have great opportunity develop artificial nature where they keeping animals ,but in fact animals don't feel themselves as in original nature.They want to be there where is original nature,but not there where people keeping them.If we will compare those animals in wild nature with animals which is live in the zoo,we can see big difference. Animals in zoo look unhappy,bored,lonely etc.animals which is live in original nature look more happy and they even rarely get sick.animals which is live in zoo cannot have completely what they want,that is why they look unhappy and live shortly than animals which is live freely in original nature.Wild animals have to live freely in original nature it is their life,and people don't have to exchange anything.They can see it from the side but it doesn't mean that people can meddle in that great wild life.
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MARTHA DLR
10/3/2010 03:50:24 pm
Humans life and animals
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Svitlana K
10/3/2010 04:04:58 pm
Many people love animals. Pets should live in houses, they are called pets. Children love animals. Therefore, parents want to show the children different animals. To do this, there is a zoo. The zoo brought in animals from all over the world, from different continents of the world. I think that animals can live in a zoo because if they lived freely in the city, they can bite people. But God created the world and put a lot of animals, birds and fish in different continents of the earth. Wild animals live far away from people and rightly so. People are afraid to live with predators. Animals living in the woods, take care of themselves as better when they live in a zoo. In the zoo for them to create good conditions for life. They are treated and fed. They vaccinations against any illness. In zooprake each animal has its own "home". There are specialists, trained people and doctors. There will be animals in food and medical care. The zoo animals feel safe. Adults and children love to visit zoos. On weekends, people love to go to the zoo to observe animals and feed them. I think that animals should live in a zoo or away from the people.
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Tina Sh.
10/3/2010 04:15:22 pm
I think keeping animals in zoos and circuses to entertain human-beings is selfish and inhumane. I love animals and I hate when people abuse them. I almost cry when I begin to think about animal-handlers that don’t feed their fosterlings enough in order to make them obedient. They give their animals a lot of work. They beat them and force them to do different and often unnatural tricks. I think that is awful! Often in zoos animals don’t get good food supply and don’t have enough space for healthy living. They suffer in captivity. I think animals were created to be wild and free. God told Adam and Eve: “…have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth." (Bible, Genesis 1:29). I don’t think that God meant that people can abuse them. Therefore we can keep animals in our homes and take care of them. But we should not be cruel to animals. Some animals, such as cows, goats, horses, chickens, etc. we can have in our homes, and even eat them, but other animals, such as tigers, lions, elephants, giraffes, penguins, monkeys must live in freedom. In our modern world when many kinds of animals are hunted out for exotics reasons, it’s a good idea to make reservations for endangered kinds of animals. People have to make those places approximated to real conditions. It is difficult to ban zoos and circuses because influential people make a lot of money, and “love of money is root of all evil”!
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Reyna M.
10/3/2010 04:36:23 pm
I believe animals have rights to live freely as humans do. Like us, they have likes and feelings to live in this world. Remember, during Noah's time, before the floods happened, God made sure that all species of animals, two of a kind, would be saved so that they would not totally become extinct in this world.
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Kevin H
10/3/2010 06:15:54 pm
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Iana N
10/3/2010 06:21:10 pm
Of course animals have rights to live freely. They should live in the nature not in cages. This is very unfair when people take the animals from there own places and place them to zoos. Some times people take little babes from mothers. Animals who live in the zoos ,are not real wild animals anymore. Because they don’t know how to survive in real world, how to find food. Anyways I don’t thing that zoos are bad for animals. Some times zoos help animals. I do not like to go to the zoo, but when I will have a children I will go to the zoo to show them the real wild animals. All children love to go to the zoo to watch real animals , the animals they learn about at school or from TV programmers. However circuses are very an unnecessary and inhumane. People just use the animals to make more money. They abused animals to do what ever people make them do the harsh treatment of animals in circuses. People trained animals by pain. God create animal not for entertain people (dance, jump thru the fire, riding bicycles and other crazy tricks). Also circuses are always traveling from one place to another, and animals have to travel too. They travel by the train in small cages. It is very uncomfortable and stressful for the animals. It is very unsafe to trained wild animals. Many handlers was killed by animals when they trained them. We have to protect animals not to abuse them.
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Kim Nguyen
10/4/2010 02:22:59 am
Do animals have the right to live freely?
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Tatyana San
10/10/2010 02:24:06 pm
Animals destined to brightened up our Earth. Without animals I can imagine our life, haw it will be boring. In my opinion, everything alive can have freedom. But, why we like to go to the zoo? Many people and children to do that and it brings a lot of joy in their life. In the zoo we can learn how reach our world with many species of animals. In the zoo we can see animals that we can’t see anywhere else. How we can know these animals exist? I personality think, some categories of animals have to running free, some have to be take care. For example, cats, dogs, cheeps, cows, goats any other needed in people’s help. I think, if people keep animals in the zoo, they have to do as much as they can to provide animals same atmosphere as in the wild life. If the atmosphere perfect and they take care of the animals, I agree with the zoos, but I don’t agree when animals bed looking, with bed condition to live. I think , that keeping animals in the circuses is inhuman and selfish. I always feel sorry for the animals, when I am in the circuses. People make animals do things they don’t have to. They hit animals and keep them in small cages. I don’t like to go circuses, if I go to circuses I only enjoy to watch people. Any way, animals have to have freedom, but some animals have to sacrifice. When I see new, interesting unusual animals, it takes my breath away.
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Mah
10/10/2010 04:13:05 pm
Animals have the right to be free.Unfortunately because of human's fears,selfishness and greed some animals have to say goodbye to their freedom!
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yu.brown
10/13/2010 02:04:33 pm
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alex h
10/14/2010 04:20:47 pm
I'm totally against cruelty to animals, but as long as they are treated well and humanely there is no harm in having them perform in the circus. But I think it's better for animals to live freely.It is important that we respect all life on this planet as part of the total package of nature.Keeping animals in small cages in the zoos and circuses should be prohibited.it's really horrible,trapped in metal cages, surrounded by unfamiliar faces, hungry,tired, and bored. One reason for this statement is because I truly believe that wild animals should live freely in their natural habitats,not owned by humans. Scientists claim that in order for living things to live and function properly, they should live in a healthy envirounment. But looking at zoo animals today-living in crowded cages, showing no activity each day creates a bad image towards their lives. Animals should be able to live in their native surroundings, where they would be able to roam around freely. Many people visit the zoo every day ,but don't even realise how the animals' lives are being dominated by human authority. In a typical zoo, you'd see monkeys,giraffes,lions,elephants,birds, and more.Many of the animal groups huddle together with their animal family,trying to adjust to the unreal scenery that is fixed to look like their natural habitat. But of course, nothing could replace that. Just like nothing could replace their families , but that is exactly what zoos do many times.
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Aurelia B.
10/17/2010 01:34:05 pm
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Aurelia B Journal 6
10/17/2010 01:56:03 pm
In the beginning God created the animals. After that He created man and woman. He told them to take care of the animals and of the nature. They were responsible to Him on how well they will take care of the earth. Unfortunately they failed to take care of the earth. Unfortunately we are not better today. When we look at the animals we can see that many of them are useful for the people but some are used by people to make money. People sell other people to make money and some of them don’t care about animals if this is source of profit. Animals have the right to live freely. Yes, there are many people who use animals to entertain others, but at least they should remember to treat animals better. We know so many stories when people would treat animals like criminals. Animals have the breath of life in them like we do, but there is a difference that we have reason. Having this we must take care of domestic animals. We also have to permit wild animals to live freely. Year by year people cut the forests and they kill, sell animals. It is selfish to keep animals in cages and pay money to see how well they can behave like humans. Animals will always be animals. That’s why so many times animals in circus kill people. They are trying to bring us a message. They are trying to tell us that this is not freedom. Unfortunately people many times are blind and they don’t want to understand that killing animals, taking them from the forests to keep them in cages for circus means killing our selves. Animals are decoration for our life. It is selfish to prohibit them from the right to be free.
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10/17/2010 02:01:50 pm
I think that animals have the right to live freely. They want to live as we waant to live freely. I think its not right to hold animals in a zoo and circus. From the very beginning of creation animals lived in freedom. They also have the right to have their family and children in an environment where they lived from the very beginning of itsexistence. People have themselves doing business on the animals , open zoo and all sorts of other attractions such as the circus. Although also are animals such as pets and they need assistance and care of people.
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5/15/2012 04:15:07 pm
ya'i think they are hauing rights to live freely as they are also lyk humans
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