Leela’s Reviews > Why Look at Animals? > Status Update

Not to start being an apologist for zoos, and I do appreciate this particular essay was written in 1977, but a zoo's primary function is conservation, and then perhaps education - not merely for an animal to be "seen" and thus marginalised. No doubt in the 70s zoos were not as good as they are today, and today they're still not good enough, but I do not view animals as "less" because they are enclosed.