Zoos
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Zoos Additional Text Set
Should animals have the same rights as humans?
Should zoos spend money on saving animals’ natural habitats or updating zoo exhibits for animals in captivity?
Should zoos try to release animals back into the wild?
What’s the best way to design a new zoo exhibit?
• Apes get people’s rights from court (By Scientific American, adapted by Newsela staff)
• “Saving Sloths” By Judith Jango-Cohen, for SuperScience; Can discuss differences between zoos and sanctuaries
• “Solving a Big Problem” (short article about how the San Diego Zoo is working to conserve and protect elephants in Asia and Africa)
• “Helping Island Iguanas” (short article about how the San Diego Zoo is working to help give iguanas a “headstart” in surviving against predators)
• “Debate: Should zoos and aquariums exhibit beluga whales?” by Elizabeth Winchester
• “Giant Panda Cubs Give Hope to an Endangered Species” by David George Gordon
• “Is Florida’s panther release program working?” (By The Sun Sentinel, adapted by Newsela staff)
• “Costa Rica to Close its Zoos and Release Animals into the Wild” by Dan Nosowitz
• “Why Zoos Matter”
• “Zoo kills a giraffe and many ask: Was there another way?” (By Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, adapted by Newsela staff, February 25, 2014)—Describes how the Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark killed an 18-month-old giraffe because its genes were too similar to the other giraffes. Describes outrage against this course of action.
• “Animal News: Animals rescued from overcrowded zoo in Mexico” (discusses how animals were rescued from a private zoo)
• Zoos: Freedom for Animals
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• “Apes have Rights Too, Court Rules” (By Scientific American, adapted by Newsela staff)
• Designing zoo habitats that promote animals’ well-being by R. Scott Nolen
• “Costa Rica Closes Zoos—Where Will the Animals Go?” (National Geographic Daily News) by Kip Patrick in Tamarindo, Costa Rica, for National Geographic
• “Small change adds up for wildlife around the world” (By McClatchy Foreign Staff, adapted by Newsela Staff)
• “Zoo kills a giraffe and many ask: Was there another way?” (By Pittsburgh Post- Gazette, adapted by Newsela staff, February 25, 2014)—Describes how the Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark killed an 18-month-old giraffe because its genes were too similar to the other giraffes. Describes outrage against this course of action.
• “Zoos: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone”
• “Reintroduction programs”
• “Williamson high school students pitch exhibit to zoo”
• “Tulsa Zoo Opens $3.5 Million Rhino Exhibit” by Jarrell Wade, World Staff Writer
• “Should Chimps Have Rights?”(Article from Upfront Magazine, April 2014)—Describes how an animal rights group seeks to give chimps ‘legal persons’ status. NOT AVAILABLE
• “Fenced In” (article from Super Science magazine, April 2014) NOT AVAILABLE