Do animals like it at the zoo?

According to some sources, zoos drive some animals crazy, especially when animal cruelty is an issue.

Some become mentally unstable, displaying compulsive behaviors throughout the day - some zoos will use drugs to treat these unusual behaviors.

Many animals cope with unstimulating or small environments through stereotypic behavior, which, in zoological parlance, is a repetitive behavior that serves no obvious purpose, such as pacing, bar biting, and Gus’ figure-eight swimming. Trichotillomania (repetitive hair plucking) and regurgitation and reingestation (the practice of repetitively vomiting and eating the vomit) are also common in captivity.

The disruption of family or pack units for the sake of breeding is another stressor in zoos, especially in species that form close-knit groups, such as gorillas and elephants.

Zoos are, first and foremost, for people - not animals.