No matter how hard the containment facility attempts to recreate the outdoors, it will never come close to the real world. Research proves that wild animals live longer than caged animals. According to Hannah Sentenac, writer of "Empty the Cages and Tanks!", animals such as elephants, which are popular when it comes to being held captive by humans, normally do not live past the age of forty, but in the wild, these majestic creatures can easily live to be sixty or seventy years old. The reason for the different life expectancies of captive and wild animals is solely based on environment. Animals are locked in small cages or rooms with little to no opportunity to socialize with others. The size of an animal's containment facility is a minute fraction of what the size of their home in the wild would be. Captivity is unnatural and unhealthy (Sentenac). Being locked in a cage for an entire lifetime is only something that human prisoners need to experience: not innocent, wild
No matter how hard the containment facility attempts to recreate the outdoors, it will never come close to the real world. Research proves that wild animals live longer than caged animals. According to Hannah Sentenac, writer of "Empty the Cages and Tanks!", animals such as elephants, which are popular when it comes to being held captive by humans, normally do not live past the age of forty, but in the wild, these majestic creatures can easily live to be sixty or seventy years old. The reason for the different life expectancies of captive and wild animals is solely based on environment. Animals are locked in small cages or rooms with little to no opportunity to socialize with others. The size of an animal's containment facility is a minute fraction of what the size of their home in the wild would be. Captivity is unnatural and unhealthy (Sentenac). Being locked in a cage for an entire lifetime is only something that human prisoners need to experience: not innocent, wild