The theme of zoos is rather created to educate people or if they are simply just cruelty to animals. Zoos contain many animals. From, elephants, lions, tigers, dolphins, otters, giraffes, chimpanzees and gorillas. These animals are used to living in their natural habitat, without cages, and are free to roam as they please. Zoos are miserable places for animals, according to CAPS An undercover investigator filmed sick animals left untreated and dead animals rotting on the floors of Tweedle Farm Zoo. Zoos are overcrowded and have no feeding or sleeping areas individual. Some lions have skin wounds and multiple scars of varying ages, some fresh, some healed. Another reason why zoos should be illegal is simply because they cannot provide the amount of space that animals would have in the wild. Lions and tigers have about 18,000 times less space in zoos than they would in the wild. Polar bears have a million times less space. (10 facts about zoos). 54% of elephants exhibit stereotypies (behavioral problems) during the day. An elephant observed during the day ...