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84: Abusive Prisons or Animal Oasis: Are Zoos Evil? | Dark History with Bailey Sarian

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The Transformation of Zoos

Zoos used to be all about showing off the animals, but now they're all about conservation. They started doing this in the 1980s as a way to make zoos more about education and less centered on entertainment. The problem with this is that these animals are bred to keep living in the zoo just like their parents. Many of the animals couldn't even survive when they were released back into the wild.

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