Essays on Animals Page 9

As years have passed since the world’s first scientific zoo was opened to the public in 1828 in London, a lot of things have changed for the better (Gray 2008). Since then, zoos have become increasingly safer for not only their visitors, but also the animals in their care, and have shown a brighter light…

Introduction The hobby of aquarium keeping in houses has gained much popularity and is the second popular hobby among people all over the world due to their attractive coloration, aesthetic beauty. This gives pleasure and soothing effect to the eyes and helps to relieve stress. The brilliant, flamboyant color and exotic appearance of the fish…

Animals don’t have a voice and humans are their only chance at speaking up about the abuse and getting justice for what is right. But when it comes to cases of animal cruelty, the court does not protect and treat all animals the same as they do human beings. Animal cruelty, also known as animal…

Persistence hunting (PH) has been an established practice in human society since the time of the earliest civilizations. In this context, hunter-gatherer societies are defined as groups which obtain resources through foraging. Persistence hunting is a common technique that hunter gatherer societies use in order to obtain meat as a food source. While persistence hunting…

Boom! That shot just might have fed a family for the night. In today’s society, many people come from different cultural backgrounds and are raised and taught to have a certain moral view, one of those views being whether it is okay to hunt and kill animals. Now, this is a well argued topic because,…

Animal rights are a large issue at hand right now; animals are abused all over the world and have no say in it. In the Copenhagen Zoo a young giraffe that was just the age of two was slaughtered and given to the lions as their meal. During the slaughtering, whole crowds full of children…

Whenever I gaze into the eyes of a feral cat, I wonder one question: “Is the cat also gazing at me?” The pale eyes, although aimless and ignorant as they appear, somehow convince me that I am also gazed. People say that the moment you find yourself being gazed, something will change. It is true:…

Animals across the nation are being hunted and killed to be consumed, butchered, used as medicine, collected by trophy hunters, kept as pets, or traded among wildlife markets in Africa, Peruvian Amazon, China, and many other markets around the world. With this brings overhunting which is described as “any hunting activity that has an adverse…

The opioid epidemic in America has reached unspeakable heights in recent years, with drug overdose now surmounting firearm and motor vehicle deaths as the leading cause of death for Americans under 50. President Donald Trump recently classified the opioid epidemic as a “public health emergency”, and rightly so as the United States remains the world…

Hunting laws have changed over the years drastically and due to the changes in the laws the ethics of hunting have been shifting a lot. The main focus is not as much for providing meat for a family. The change of new technology and research into how deer are being hunted have made the sport…