All Zoos should be closed - Oral

This is an oral about Zoos and they they are not helping the animals. The only zoos that are doing saving the animals are the one's that have breeding programs for all animals!
“We cannot glimpse real life in a caged animal; only the shadow of its former beauty.” Julia Allen made this remark. It is the central point of this argument. Animals are being kept in a cages the size of a small Telephone box! This is so much less than their original expansive native wild habitat. Many Australian zoos are keeping the cages in good condition but, in other countries, zoos have been known to chain some of their animals to ensure they don’t escape!
In Indonesia, many zoos have small cages which are not being cleaned properly. Caged animals are not taken our for a nice walk to stretch their legs. Many, are starving because they do not have enough food and water. Some animals are forced to entertain visitors, while others, - sick animals - are being eaten alive by maggots.
“An individual animal doesn't care if its species is facing extinction – it cares if it is feeling pain.” Ronnie Lee explains. Several endangered animals have died after eating lollies and ice-cream thrown by the public into their cages. Some humans have even fed them worse, i.e. cigarettes – just for fun! Are humans actually causing extinction patterns by heedlessly destroying habitats, e.g. Mountain Gorilla’s in Rwanda (Ru-anda)? They may provide cages for the animals but is it good enough?
Some zoos are just cruel. In a Chinese zoo, a tiger has had its canine teeth pulled out! This animal suffers for life. Now, it cannot tear at red meat - its usual diet - the poor Bengal Tiger is close to death! At the same zoo, they put a metal ring through the nose of a Black Bear. This is very sad. When the bear turns around, the metal ring makes the nose tissue swell. The bear cannot breathe properly and may die from a lack of air.
Don Waters states “Animals should be set free and humans enclosed.” This quote expounds the theory that animals have their own right to be free! Animals become stressed by captivity. We take for granted that we humans have a right to be free but, we do not seem capable of allowing animals have their freedom.
Bill Travers stated: “The saddest thing about zoos is the way they drive animals mad. Much of the behavior we take for granted in zoo animals – repetitive pacing up and down, head banging, obsessive paw swinging, or just plain moping – is actually psychotic (sigh-cot-ic), the sort of thing humans get driven to when they are kept in solitary confinement.” This is enormous worry has to be heard! Animals should not be stressed. They should be set free.
Many animals live in family groups. They have a right to come home every night. If we remove them from the wild, the animal’s family will mourn. A similar mourning to that we humans feel, especially when those close to us leave or die? Have you ever thought about that? Animals suffer because they are stressed by captivity. They love to live in the wild!
All zoos should be closed. Many animals are being kept in poor conditions, harshly looked-after and stressed by their captivity. Animals should be able to run free in their natural environment. Living their lives to the fullest! Making their own choices as they travel through their own habitat.