People believe that the humans in charge of zoos have a warped, personal morality of how animals are treated due to their own greed. Therefore, instead of humans centering zoos on proper exhibits on animal needs, they rather rely on human priority over nature. In Jeffery Cohn's, "Do Elephants Belong in Zoos?," he explains how zoos do not provide enough space for the largest walking mammals. Elephants need to walk up to fifty miles a day, or else they can get lethal foot infections. Cohn states, "The money zoos spend on elephants, they state, could be better used on conservation in the wild and on animals that zoos can house …show more content…
In Kay Anderson's, "Culture and Nature at the Adelaide Zoo: At the Frontiers of 'Human' Geography," she writes about the visitors experiences and emotions people have towards zoos. Zoos provide an array of species, majority of which people have never encountered in nature before, therefore people's emotions range from excitement, fear, sadness, and nostalgia. They also provide a lifetime of memories for any visitor (Anderson 276). Anderson mainly argues that zoos ultimately tell stories that set boundaries between animals and humans, "Humans engage in cultural self-definition against a variably constructed and opposed nature. With animals as the medium , they inscribe a cultural sense of distance from that loosely defined realm that has come to be called 'nature'"