Should Animals be Kept in Zoos? A Personalized Perspective Based on The ZooKeeper (our newest personalized tale!) (Updated, May 2024)
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In the past decade, there has been an increasing outcry against zoos and the conditions of animals that live in them. Many animal rights activists have reiterated time again that zoos have a detrimental effect on animals and their well-being. Even though some arguments exist that zoos are not all bad - or at least that not all zoos are bad - there still is an overwhelming consensus that animals should not be kept in zoos.
Personalized books can play a crucial role in helping kids understand these complex issues. For instance, The ZooKeeper is a personalized book that takes your kids on an Ocean’s 11-style heist to free Dandylion, who is being held captive in a zoo by the ZooKeeper.
By placing your child at the center of the story, this personalized book vividly illustrates the negative impact of captivity on animals and emphasizes the importance of freedom and natural habitats!
In this blog, we’re taking a look at the top reasons animals should not be kept in zoos, based on the arguments made in The ZooKeeper book!
Unnatural enclosures
In most zoos, animals are kept in enclosures that look and feel nothing like their natural habitat. Moreover, since people come to the zoo to actually see the animals on ‘display’, the enclosures are sometimes made smaller than they really should be. If the enclosures are too big, the animals are not always visible to the visiting public, and people are usually unhappy when they don’t get ‘their money’s worth’.
Animals are often removed from their natural habitats
In The ZooKeeper, Dandylion is just going for a morning stroll, minding his own business when the ZooKeeper shoots him with a dart gun, captures Dandy and puts him in a cage. Like Dandy, some animals are removed from their natural habitat to be taken to zoos, which is particularly cruel as animals born in the wild cannot adapt easily to enclosed environments, however big they may be. This happens less now, because of increased efforts towards conservation and enforcement of animal rights laws. However, animals are still captured for zoos and other animal trade, especially in countries where animal protection laws are not as strongly enforced.
Unhygienic conditions
Animals in zoos are sometimes neglected, and their enclosures are not cleaned out as often as they should be, which leads to extremely unhygienic conditions that end up with the animal getting sick, and sometimes even dying.
In the ZooKeeper, after Dandy gets locked in a cage, he worries about how he’s going to keep his hair and his clothes clean. There are, of course, many zoos that do a good job of keeping animal enclosures and the animals themselves clean, and provide stimulating play environments for animals to thrive. However, the fact remains that there are still zoos that do not have the resources to look after the animals as they should.
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Personalized books (or custom books as they are sometimes referred to) allow the reader to become the hero of the story - literally.
The main character in the story is the reader / receiver of the book, and is represented by an avatar that looks like them. There are usually lots of additional personalized details printed in the stories, including the receiver's name, age, family members and more.
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In some of our books like Dreamland and What Will I Be? the (the An ABC Story) your loved one's name is printed on every page.
In our Manimal Tales series, in addition to your child's name, you can select an avatar that looks like your child.
In our custom baby tales, Your Baby's Story and Your Baby's Story (Sibling version), you have to enter names and select avatars for the parents and the siblings as well.
And for our PhotoStories, you can further customize the books by uploading and adding your own photos directly into the book. The stories have been written to incorporate the photos as part of the story itself.
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