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In real life, zoos have changed a lot throughout time. In the 1800s to early 1900s, they were originally just harsh concrete cages. As time went by and regulations and concerns for animal welfare were established, zoos started to improve more and more, especially after the concept of endangered species appeared, when zoos gained an extra role to play: preserving animal species and breeding them in captivity. Now the US, Canada, and European countries have strict regulations on exhibits and must meet certain standards that give animals large, roomy enclosures made to resemble their natural habitat. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })However, in a lot of media, zoos are shown as gloomy, maudlin places. Whilst the keeper(s) are generally portrayed sympathetically, the zoo authorities either care very little for the animals, or care but do not know anything about them. The exhibits are severely undersized, inadequate or simply falling apart and the animals escaping frequently. Visitors either come in order to make fun of the animals and throw stuff at them, or the zoo has hardly any visitors. Often a character will comment on the poor conditions of the zoo, and sometimes it becomes a plot point. Generally, the story ends with either the animals being transferred to a location more conducive to their needs or the protagonists helping to improve conditions at the zoo. In period settings, Values Dissonance is often applied - the protagonists may view the conditions as perfectly acceptable (or even revolutionary) and/or the care of the animals is based on outdated knowledge. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Zoos are portrayed, generally, far less negatively than circuses; the animals are rarely deliberately neglected or mistreated and the keepers in such settings are very rarely portrayed as abusive or even malicious - either well-intentioned, but lacking in knowledge, or simply struggling to provide adequate care, but suffering under incompetent/greedy superiors. If the animals escape from the zoo, expect an Escaped Animal Rampage. A Sister trope to Circus of Fear (at least the animal abuse variant), and Pounds Are Animal Prisons. See also Free the Frogs and Hilarity in Zoos. No Real Life Examples, Please! |
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Similarly, Planet Zoo enables you to do this, but as with Zoo Tycoon both animals and visitors will not respond well. An animal having severely low welfare for too long will draw protesters to the zoo, which will further lower the other guests' happiness. | |
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In The Simpsons episode Eight Misbehavin', Apu and Manjula seek financial aid for their Too Many Babies by becoming a zoo attraction. In that zoo, the kangaroos are miserable and the koalas are fed meat instead of eucalyptus leaves. | |
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A bit in the first episode of Brass Eye concerned an East Germannote in 1997, mind you zoo that was so bad that an elephant stuck its trunk up its own arse to escape. Of course, it was all fake. | |
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In The Many Worlds Interpretation, two academically-minded people from the Discworld cross to Pasadena, California. While quantum research Wizard Ponder Stibbons is finding lots of things in common with people like Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter, his co-researcher Johanna Smith-Rhodes, an Assassin by education and a zoologist by vocation, is being shown the animal handling facilities at Caltech by an excited Amy Farrah-Fowler. After a very big wince at Amy's casual terminology - she dismisses orang-utans as mere monkeys note Johanna knows the Librarian. Who is very defintely an ape, Johanna looks around her, at bare spartan cages, not big enough for their occupants, in a warehouse room with no windows, and is horrified. Reminding herself not to get angry, she starts reforming the animal-handling culture at Caltech. | |
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Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes hates the zoo and sees it as equivalent to a prison for animals, as shown in one strip, when Calvin asks to go to the zoo, Hobbes asks Calvin if they can visit a prison afterwards. | |
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The main cast of Blinky Bill suspect this at first, but Wombo, as well as the zoo animals themselves, profess that they're well taken care of, and that they're able to make up for any shortcomings in care on their own. The one exception is a homesick panda who, while also well cared-for, doesn't speak English and as a result doesn't understand that she's only staying at the zoo for a short time. | |
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The zoo from The X-Files episode "Fearful Symmetry" was explicitly stated to have been abysmal in the recent past before the episode, to the point where they actually hired new management along with a scientific adviser to reform the zoo. Also notable in that the (fictional) zoo in question had never once had a live birth of any animal in captivity, ever. The animals are regularly abducted by aliens and made the subject of strange experiments, including the theft of their unborn children. | |
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Justified and eventually defied in Avatar: The Last Airbender. In one Book 2 episode, Aang visits a zoo in Ba Sing Se, where the animals live in tiny, cramped exhibits. The zoo has very little visitors and the place doesn't look very lively. This is because the government wouldn't give the zoo any more money to improve conditions because kids weren't visiting the zoo, so the zoo had a budget cut and thus couldn't get enough money to fund itself. Aang suggests to the zoo's manager that the animals should roam free for once - which leads to the animals stampeding across Ba Sing Se. Luckily Aang gets an idea: using his Appa whistle, he herds the animals to the city border, then uses his earthbending powers to make a better-looking zoo with more lush and habitable landscape. As a result, the new zoo gets more visitors and the animals are now happier and living comfortably. | |
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Discussed in the Dragnet film, after Joe talks about how good the animals have it at the zoo. Pep expresses skepticism. | |
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An episode of Muppet Babies (1984) focuses on this trope with Rowlf thinking zoos just keep animals locked in cages. Even after Nanny explains most zoos don't use cages anymore, he's still unconvinced and the rest of the episode is spent explaining the benefits zoos offer such as protecting endangered species. By the end Rowlf changes his view and is now anxious to visit the zoo, but now Gonzo is scared to go, fearing he is an endangered species and the zoo will want to keep him there. | |
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Played with in the Madagascar movies. In the first movie, the animals enjoy a life of luxury in the zoo, but a few of them (Marty the zebra and the four penguins) dream of living in the wild. After Marty escapes and his friends follow him to get him back to the zoo, an Animal Wrongs Group declares that they escaped from the zoo because they suffer there, and ship all of them to the wild. Two movies later, the trope is played more straight: after Captain DuBois captures the animals and returns them to the Central Park Zoo, it looks more prison-like with higher fences around the habitats. And even after being locked there, DuBois is determined to shoot Alex with a poison dart. | |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power: The Evil Horde from maintains its own zoo where they keep more exotic animals of Etheria... whether they want to be or not. Kowl and his new friend Kowla were taken there and it was used as an allegory for the whole "gilded cage" idea, along with a nasty caretaker named Vultak. The And Knowing Is Half the Battle PSA afterward went out of its way to explain that real zoos are not animal prisons and often the last chance for endangered species they harbor. A second zoo is mentioned to be maintained by Horde Prime, home to unique and one of a kind animals found throughout his empire. When Hordak captures Swift Wind to send as an exhibit, he takes great pleasure in telling the winged unicorn how he'll be fed the best food and kept fastidiously groomed, but will never see the sky again as his wings whither and his feathers dull from disuse and captivity. |
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You can invoke this in Zoo Tycoon by making your animal pens extremely small, making the environment inside the enclosure as different as possible from the animal's natural environment, and by not feeding the animal. However, as one would expect, neither the animals nor the visitors will be too happy about this. There are also several challenge mode games that involve fixing up zoos that keep the animals in poor conditions. | |
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In an episode of The Replacements, Riley is concerned about the welfare of animals living in a zoo. Fitting in with this trope, the animals live in tiny, cramped concrete cages with steel bars. Initially, she blames the grumpy zookeeper and has him replaced with a crazy animal rights activist who releases all the animals. Naturally, this turns out to be a bad idea, and Riley soon learns that the conditions weren't the zookeeper's fault: the owner of the zoo, a rich Corrupt Corporate Executive, didn't bother having conditions improved because he wanted to keep the money for himself. Eventually, they threaten him into converting his golf course into a nice, roomy zoo for the animals. | |
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The Green Knowe Chronicles: In A Stranger at Green Knowe the protagonist first encounters Hanno the gorilla in a bare concrete cage, which the narration likens to a human being confined for life in a bathroom. | |
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