Write in 50 words.'should animals be kept in a cage?What would be your reaction of you saw birds kept in a cage?
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Should animals be kept in cages?
I see questions like this a lot on various websites and always do my best to answer them. I am a big animal lover and spent some years working at a zoo when I got out of Banking.
In a perfect world there would be no need for zoos but unfortunately we do not live in a perfect world. Many zoos have raised huge sums for conservation efforts around the world and most importantly now are trying to bring that conservation message to the next generation of children. Without zoos many of us would not have the chance to see the many beautiful animals that exist in the world. Many zoos take part in responsible breeding programs using stud books to ensure proper genetic flow to help perpetuate the species.
There are however many zoos which are not up to the mark. I went to one quite recently in WA state where my heart absolutely sank. The animals were in poor health. They had let their personal hygiene go (first sign you have problems), and looked so so bored. I would have shut the place down if I could.
If you are going to keep animals in captivity you have to do it right. The main talking point is always enclosure size but size is not everything. The usual comparison I give is confining a human to an empty aircraft hangar. Lots of space to run around but absolutely nothing to do. The person would go mad. Alternatively, they could have their house and garden with all the creature comforts of TV, video games, books etc. Again, not perfect as nothing ever is, but much better than the empty hangar. Though a rather extreme example it is much the same with animals. You have to stimulate their brains, make them work for a living to find their food and keep them alert. I for one am proud of what I tried to achieve in the zoo I worked for.
It should also be noted it is now illegal to take animals out of the wild for zoos.
Zoos have come a long way from the grim times of the 1960’s and do much good work now.
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Is it cruel to keep pet birds in cages?
People who think it is inhumane to keep a bird in a cage know nothing at all about birds, and lots about romantic claptrap, although it does depend on the bird to some extent.
Consider, if you will, the case of the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus).
I'm not suggesting you keep it in a cage, but I am suggesting you consider its lifestyle, particularly the life of the male. It is not like other birds. But it is.
This is what a cuckoo eats. It's disgusting.
Now let us think about that other great waste of time and energy: raising a family. As everyone knows, cuckoos do not even bother. They dump their kids on the folks next-door and leave them to it.
For the majority of birds, a lot of time and energy (I'm getting tired typing that so henceforth we'll just call it TAE) is spent finding, choosing, competing for and defending a mate. The amount of TAE spent on everything that goes into mating is pretty much directly related to how difficult it is to raise a chick. For big birds - pelicans, albatross, eagles, penguins, swans - raising a chick to maturity takes a lot of TAE and requires two parents working as a team. These birds spend a lot of time just checking that each other are healthy and happy. This is where the "mate for life" nonsense originates. The cuckoo, as we know, is not going to raise any chicks itself so it has no interest in establishing and maintaining expensive pair-bonds. Indeed, more or less the whole cuckoo mating ritual consists of the male sitting in a tree or in a ditch waiting for a female to fly by. When she does, he pretty much rapes her. Obviously, she is consenting to some extent, but basically the male swoops after the female and with the minimum possible fuss, "gives 'er one" then returns to his hideout, or finds a new hideout. Job done. The female has to do a bit more, but not much.
Having wasted your TAE getting together with a partner, most birds will now spend a lot more TAE finding a nest site and building a nest. Obviously cuckoos don't do this so they have even more leisure time.
One the nest is feathered and full of chicks, most birds spend almost all day, almost every day, searching for food, chasing off predators, maintaining the nest, teaching their kids the ways of the wild. Cuckoos are twiddling their thumbs or whatever.
So basically, compared to other birds, the lifestyle of a cuckoo has a lot of free time in it.