> Everytime I have been to a zoo I have seen the saddest animals around.

I grew up with zoos and circuses. I rode an elephant and had my photo taken with a tiger when I was around five years old. While I’m glad to have touched these animals, I find the idea of captivity cruel today. One of the saddest things I have ever seen was a solitary rhinoceros endlessly pacing before a crowd of slack jawed spectators at the last zoo I will ever visit.

This is what documentaries are for. Zoos have educational value, but the expense is too great.