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2. Zoos are fucking stupid.

3. Capturing wild animals and using them for human entertainment is a super shitty thing to do.

"Zoos are fucking stupid" wow such science you sold me

They weren’t captured for this purpose, they probably weren’t captured at all, it’s called rescuing. 

This is cool.

This is not abuse, it’s actually exercise if you think about it.

Zoos are not prisons. Zoos allow us to rescue animals, research them, and protect them from hunters and the dangers that we, as humans, impose on them.

I’m so done with all the shit about zoos on my fucking dash. 

being born captive

getting injured in the wild and rescued to live a healthy life in captivity

being rescued from black market dealers, private collectors, or the like who decide that they can no longer care for the animals or who had been illegally keeping the animals

being in a breeding program to increase their numbers because the animal is endangered in the wild

If you knew anything about tigers at all, you’d know that they are endangered in the wild due to poaching and hunting. It is of utmost importance that their numbers increase, or they will go extinct within the next fifty years. I don’t know what zoo this is so I don’t know their reputation, but the tigers look healthy, and this tug-of-war is good for them because some animals get stressed in zoos when they are bored. This isn’t solely to entertain zoo guests, it is to give the tigers something fun to do.

Zoos do not snatch animals from the wild without a good reason. If you want to protest animal captivity, go to SeaWorld and protest the orcas being kept there, they are far too large to belong in such cramped spaces and they are solely kept for entertainment.

Hello hello. Right let’s get to this.

Firstly, I have read classics. Okay, so I’m not the most well-read classics reader – but I have a lifetime ahead of me to read classics if I want to. Some of the classics I’ve read I really enjoyed, some I didn’t– which is fine because everyone likes different books.

Regardless of whether I have or have not read any classics,you do not have the right to judge me or anyone else for reading and enjoyingYA.

I study English Literature, and we have to read assignedbooks – often ‘classics’. Excuse me for wanting to read something else outsideof my classes. Sometimes I find YA easier to relate to, sometimes I findit easier to read and more enjoyable. Which is fine because everyone likesdifferent books.

YA is such a rich genre. There are so many wonderful books thatpeople won’t read because they have such a close-minded view of it. Justbecause a book is classified as YA does not mean it is “shit”.

I don’t restrict myself to ‘only’ YA. (I also don’t restrictmyself to just classics.) I’m always trying to read a wider range of books: differentYA books, adult, classics, non-fiction etc. But I read what I want, when I want.

FUCKING

GENIUS

GOES 

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