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Humans keep wild animals like tigers in zoological parks for the determinations of learning, protection, research, and recreation. However, strange actions may develop in animals kept in human-made environments, if those atmospheres do not permit them to carry out their natural activities (such as swimming, climbing, pestering, and predation).
Confined surroundings in zoological parks often do not provide for natural behaviors due to spatial limitations and bad public reaction. Tigers present a challenging case; they have large home ranges in the wild and natural voracious hunting actions that are hard to provide for in imprisonment. As the numbers of wild tigers’ and lions drop, caged breeding programs have become the main motivation of the wildlife park community but it has many harms and side effects.
In the wild, lions and tigers pass their time wandering vast distances in search of prey, try to find mates, and stake out the land. Most species are mostly nightly and, with the exclusion of lions and male cheetahs, are unsociable by nature.
Accommodation of mismatched animals together in confined places has frequently led to big cats slaying their cage companions. Most of the expected 5,000 to 7,000 caged tigers in the U.S. are held at the roadside and wandering zoos, pseudo-sanctuaries, and private wildlife parks where they are exposed to extreme imprisonment and neglect.
Enforced inoperativeness due to dangerous imprisonment, as well as standing and walking on a rigid surface such as concrete, can cause paws, joint, muscle, and circulatory complications; damaged, fractured, and ulcerated footpads; pitiable muscle tone; and overall poor physical fitness.According to research shown by the University of Oxford zoologists, “Among the flesh-eaters, naturally wide-stretching species show the most proof of trauma and/or emotional dysfunction in imprisonment.” Imprisoned big cats, incapable to meet their instinctive needs, reveal disturbing behaviors such as stomping, tail-chewing, toe-sucking, or unnecessary cleaning.
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