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Hello
This is six minute engenglish from bbc learning english
I'm neil and i'm georgie in this program
We're discussing a controversial topic
That often produces strong feelings
Should animals be kept in zoos
What's your opinion on this debate neil
Or it's a really difficult question
Gegeore
I think there are good scientific reasons for having animimin zooze
But also it seems to me a little bit sad ccel l for wild animals to be locked up
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For some zes are a good way to teach people about nature and save endangered species from extinction
Others think separating animals from their natural habitat is cruel and unnecessary
Either way with an estimated seven hundred million visitors
Every year zoos remain popular
But are they a good thing will be debating the poson cons as well as leararsome useful new words and phrases hand
Remember
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Now i have a question for you
George in twenty
Twenty two
Five animals escaped from sydney's toronger zoo in australia
But what are the escaped animals a elephants b lions s zzebris um
I can imagine zebris running away from the zoo
Ok
We'll find out the answer at the end of the program
Reporter williamenly adams has been investigating the arguments one against keeping animimin zos with bby worservservice gragram
What in the world
Here he gives two arguments in favor of zoos
Education is the primary reason that zoos give for why they should exist the fact is that school children all over the world aoften bus to zoo
I remember myself going to see lwan gorililas at zoellananda every single year
And the point of this was to introduce us conconservone argugufor keeping animals in zos is to educate world from eeatal al conservation the protection of plants animals and the natural world from human damage
A second point is that zoos often invest in research programs that help endangered animals
Now as we know pandas are notoriously reluctant to met the female pandas have a narrow window of fertility um their solitary creatures
And it taes to the tango
When it comes to reproduction
But a lot of money in zoos
It goes to sort pandways to encourage animals to mate a second argument is that zoos protects endangered species from extinction through brebreding wililam am mentions pandas animals
Which are reluctant meaning slow and unwilling to reproduce
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Male and female pandas need a little help to make babies and zoos can provide this help
William s ses ses the idim
It takes two to tango to describe an activity
Which needs two people or in this case
Two pandas to be willing to make something a success
Now let's time to some of the arguments against these with nicketo
Ddwin and zzyear old animal rights activists from india
Who spoke to bbc riilts acprogram
What in the world
I don't think zos should exist for several reasons
The first one beas zoos detromental impact on both the physical and psychological help of animals
Many studies and research official than many animals and zoos
Anaquarium display at normal behaviors like head bbbbing pacing steotypical behaviors signs of mental tal dess sithe second reasons
I would say is zzoos can mimiit the natural habitat of animals in the wild
Nicketto argues that being enclosed in a zoo is so stressful for wild animals
It leads to app normal behave a behaviour
That is different and worse from what would normally be expected
Examples of this include animals passing their cages and circles and rocking
Bar bitting and even self harm
And they're so common in captive animals
There's a name for it
Zoo coses even zos with large enclosures can not fully mimic or copy the natural habitats to huen spaces
These animals would enjoy in the wild and imagine how a polar bear evolved for life in the frozen anctic would feel trapped in a zoo
In a much warar country
Some zoologists have compared zoo coses to human traumatic
We post traumatic stressed disorder
But say it's even more damaging for captive animals
Everything including the air breaed is traumatic
We've heard a few arguments for and against keeping animals in zoos
What do you think new have you changed your opinion at all
Well i think there are really strong arguments on both sides
Some obpored your trarogigy
Well we know how some of the animals at the sydney zoo felt about things
Because they managed to escape
But what was the answer to your question nail
Well georgii asked you
Which animals escaped from a zoo in sydney australia
In twenty
Twenty
Twenty was it a elephants be lions or see zebrra and eyes said zebris
I'm afraid
That was the wrong answer
It was actually bband swaooay
It's time to recap the vocabulary
We've learned and finspontive the protection of plants
Animals and the natural world from human harm
If you are reluctant to do something
You don't want to do it or you do it very slowly
The idiom it takes to to tango refers to an activity
Which needs twenty people to willingly and actively take part for it to succeed the adjective abnormal means different from what would normally be expected in a bad way
Zoo cosis is a term to descurbe the repeated purposeless behavior before by captive animals in response to the stress of being confined
Including pasying head
Boombing and swaying
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