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Some people feel that it is always wrong to keep animals in captivity, for instance in zoos. Other people say that there are benefits for the animals and for humans. Discuss both sides of this debate, and give your personal view.

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Keeping
animals
 in captivity continues to be a controversial topic, and there are many social discussions about it. Most
people
 love
animals
, and there are strong views on both sides, which I will consider now. On the one hand, some
people
 think there is no reason to keep
animals
 in captivity. They believe that
animals
 need to live in their natural landscape, and not in a human-made place, where they become an attraction for tourists, who often don’t respect them.
Moreover
, in
the
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nature
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 there is silence, whilst in zoos
animals
 are surrounded by
people
 laughing and shouting at them so they probably suffer.
Lastly
, if
animals
 are fed by humans too long, they will lose their ability
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food
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 and once they are free, they won’t be able to survive.
On the other hand
, others believe that there are benefits for the
animals
 in being captured. In fact,
animals
 in zoos are often sick and humans help them with their illness.
Then
 they leave the
animals
 free when they are healthy again.
In addition
,
keep
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 an animal in captivity is a way to protect him, especially for some endangered species.
This
 creates are
also
 advantages for
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the researcher
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researcher
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, who can study
closer
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animals
’
behavior
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 and understand how to help them when they are in the wild.
Overall
, I believe that keeping
animals
 in
zoo
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 as a tourist attraction is always wrong and that if they are captured to be
help
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 because of an illness they don’t need to be shown to
people
.
Animals
 can stay in zoos as long as they are properly staffed and maintained.
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