Animals should not be kept in captivity for any reason unless they have suffered harm and need to receive care, but should be released as soon as they are healthy and able to take care of yourself again. Using a captive animal for research, education, or entertainment is simply wrong: no creature deserves to have its life taken for our benefit. Would you like to be captured and put in a little box or a fake little ecosystem, or abused and tortured because apparently that's the only possible way to train an animal? How about you just know that your real life is over and now all you have to do is put on a show for the people? This is what we subject these animals to for our entertainment: we tear children away from their parents. In what sense is this right? It's just like kidnapping: we put human beings in prison for it, but only when it's another human being. People act as if, just because they are not human, it is ok and they lie to themselves by telling themselves that it is ok and that the animal will be cared for, fed and have a nice "fake" forest or desert to live in. Think of it like having a zoo full of humans, or stealing other humans for profit, or teaching someone something new by doing something totally wrong and unethical. Let's look at Pitiful Prisons (Zoo) for example. Despite their professional concern for animals, zoos could be more accurately described as a "collection" of animals rather than as true sanctuaries or safe homes. Zoos claim to be educational, but visitors spend perhaps a few minutes in each exhibit looking for entertainment rather than enlightenment, no matter what is on display, people look at it as if it were wallpaper. Even taking into account the best circumstances at... middle of paper......inment-factsheets/zoos-pitiful-prisons/>.(JohnsonI)Johnson, Natalie. NP Network. April 4, 2014. .(JohnsonII)McQuaid, David. “Get the facts.” Born free United States. Np, September 16, 2014. Web. April 24, 2014. .(McQuaid)"Orca: DNews." DNews. Np, nd Web. . .(Al-Khatib)"Our cure for killer whales." SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment. Np, nd Web. . .(SeaWorld)Roberts, A.. Np. Network. 4 April 2014. . (Robert). NP Network. 4 April 2014. .(PetaAsiaPacific)