today, while vacationing with my aunts and uncles, i went to the Indianapolis Zoo. now, im usually not very welcoming to things like that, involving captive animals, but i decided to go!! I mean, why not? It was just a way to spend the day! ...or so i thought!!! for 5 hours, I saw animal after animal after animal captive. They were behind bars, thick plexi-glass walls, fake rocky fences: all lined up in rows. it almost made me burst into tears like the teeny toddler next to me who was tantruming about not getting a lemonade! i mean, all of these helpless animals who were BORN into this "show biz" life: having rowdy kids pet them and scream at them, like the animals' lives were valueless. and others are STUCK their entire lives behind bars like fugitives! people are put behind bars because they completed something wrong and are being punished. THESE animals are put behind bars because human beings take p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e. in seeing the real animal in a faux habitat, rather than seeing it in the animal's natural home!! are we really willing to make other lives suffer because we are lazy? now, you've heard my opinion on zoos and their qualities, but I want to learn more from you. what do YOU bloggers think of animal captivities like zoos?