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Read the article from a website for animal rights activists.
Zoos and Animal Behavior
What if you had to spend every day trapped in a small enclosure, fed food you didn’t like, and surrounded by unfamiliar people and sounds? Zoo life affects the mental health of animals, and it shows in their behaviors. Animals may pace, act aggressively, or become depressed. With nothing to do, they become bored and disinterested in
Question 1
Part A
What is the author’s point in Paragraph 3, “Zoos and Animal Behavior”?
The main goal of zoos should be to release animals back into the wild.
People would not enjoy being treated the way that zoo animals are treated.
Animals that walk for miles each day in the wild should not be kept in small pens.
Zoo animals cannot behave like they would in the wild, which affects their mental and physical health.
Part B
Which evidence from the text best supports the answer in Part A?
“Elephants are used to walking for miles each day.”
“What if you had to spend every day trapped in a small enclosure, fed food you didn’t like, and surrounded by unfamiliar people and sounds?”
“Animals may pace, act aggressively, or become depressed.”
“...if the goal of zoos is to release species back into the wild, how will they survive with the abnormal behaviors they have developed?”