Out of the three articles, The Zoos Go Wild by Nicholas Nirgiotis and Theodore Nirgiotis, was the strongest and factual article. This was because it provided evidence that supported the prompt quite strongly with great reality. As they describe what they are doing to help the animals, they also state what was wrong and how that problem was fixed. In this story there is a lowland gorilla who was caught by poachers, was taken away from his mother at a young age. In 1961, an animal trader sold him to Zoo Atlanta, he spent the next 27 years of his life alone in an indoor cage. Zoo personals named him Willie B. Willie’s keepers wanted him to be happy, so they “hung an old tire from a wall of his cage and put a television set in one corner”(25). They hoped these toys would keep Willie from …show more content…
This felt like a whole new home for Willie, he started breeding with other gorillas and claimed territory. Zoos from everywhere, even Germany, have been sharing information to house animals without infecting the animals’ physical and mental state. The solution to this was an open-air, natural enclosure. Though, the first to use such a setting was Karl Hagenbeck at the Hamburg Zoo, Germany, in 1907. Yet, when other zoos caught on to the ideas building did not begin until the 1960s. When work started, zoo designers traveled to the animals’ natural habitats in faraway places to study not only what the habitats looked like but how the animals used the space and behaved in it. In and throughout this whole article, the zoos have learned from their past mistakes and improved their past techniques to provide lives of depressed animals living in captivity a new and active life, also housing animals in spaces that were as close to the animals’ habitats as the designers could make them was an important step in the struggle to save endangered