1. Noah thought that having a male and a female of each species would be enough to proactively flourish a new world with healthy happy animals but now with modern science we can understand that inbreeding turns out to be extremely unsuccessful. Zoo's nowadays are using breeding programs to create ways of making successful healthy offspring. They have gone as far to create large terrains to keep some species separate, as this at times encourages procreation.
2.Conservation is secondary is the secondary goal that most Zoo's have. The primary goal is to make people keep coming to the Zoo. So with with this atitude not all the animals who need the conservation are the "super stars" of the Zoo, so in turn they get pushed to the side.
3. Although a zoo may spark a young ones interest in animals i feel as if you really want to grow up to be a zoologist (or anything of the sort) you are going to regardless if you went to a zoo or not. Seeing the trapped monkey puts a stigma into children's heads that "all monkeys can be trapped and made into my pet". What i mean to say is that at first glance, with out any prior knowledge of zoos, most zoos still don't look as if they promote conservation.
4. European ideology is to euthanize any unneeded offspring so that there is no chance of them having more offspring who would become unhealthy do to unsuccessful genealogy. While American ideology is to let them die naturally. I like the American way of natural death because it just seems less cruel.
The European approach to potential overpopulation is euthanasia, but in the US it is largely birth control, not natural death.
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