Zoo

You have probably enjoyed visiting a zoo and looking at the animals. But zoos do more than just keep different kinds of animals.

Zoos are home to many kinds of animals from all over the world that you might not get to see in the wild. Depending on the zoo, some of those animals include polar bears, elephants, giraffes and clouded leopards.

And though you may not have paid much attention to the surroundings in the exhibits where zoo animals live, zoos try to re-create their habitats, or the places they would live in the wild to make them feel more comfortable and less confined. Some of these habitats include grassy plains, deserts and rainforests.

Some zoos are also making animal habitats more interactive and interesting for the animals that live there so they don’t get bored. They let the animals make choices about where they go and what they do in their exhibit. Some zoos even give their animals the chance to search for and hunt their own food like they would in the wild

Zoos have many different kinds of animals that you can see and learn about. But teaching people about animals and showing them how they live isn’t the only important thing that zoos do.

Zoos study animals in the wild and in the zoo so they can learn more about them. They discover more about how they behave, what kinds of food they need to stay healthy, what conditions they need to have healthy babies and what kinds of medicines and treatments help different kinds of animals survive.