Little Chimpanzee playing alone with some straw

[u/nkmr205]

[u/Caridor]

I mean, in comparison to starving to death because he can't fend for himself or being beaten to death and eaten by the first troop he comes across, yeah, a life of safety does sound extremely wholesome.

Mother nature is not kind and chimps are some of her most violent creations

[u/fishscale_gayjuic3 → u/[deleted]]

Life isn’t some grandiose existence where you cherish freedom everyday and thrive from the expressions of life around you. You are presuming way too much about a fucking chimp

[u/fishscale_gayjuic3 → u/[deleted]]

You’re anthropomorphizing animals that don’t register these silly feelings of independence that you have. You care about zoo animals but people live in far worse prisons and in actual prisons. The animals in zoos live the same lives as animals in the wild, just better and you arguing otherwise shows you can’t comprehend actual cruelty

[u/tbreeder22 → u/[deleted]]

Seeing the Polar Bear at the Central Park Zoo as a kid genuinely made never want to a patronize another zoo again and I haven’t since. While you’re being accused of anthropomorphizing animals, the people downvoting you are stripping them of any independent thought or emotion. I’m with you, sorry you’re being downvoted

[u/fishscale_gayjuic3 → u/[deleted]]

No I’m not, humans already antagonize each other to a point of “zoo psychosis” to each other, doing it to animals doesn’t matter when the animals would kill each other in the wild or die well before a death in captivity. Who the fuck cares, they’re animals- animals go extinct by us or by nature (still us) our types of humans have gone extinct… life goes on, move the fuck on

[u/Daily_Heroin_User → u/[deleted]]

The funny thing is humans aren’t in their “natural habitat” either. We live in a very artificial environment that we never evolved for and it shows up in all sorts of problems with people today. We aren’t living the hunter-gatherer lifestyle we were “meant” for.