I think they should be able to run free because I too get very sad when I go to the zoo. They are all just pacing around probably waiting for their food and stuff. Well in the wild they can get their own food whenever they are hungry, and now they have to be shoved in a cage and abide by human rules?? How rude!!

As for what Amy said, yeah they are making zoos better for the animals and keeping them from going extinct. But out in the wild they have these kind of preserves or something that are like a big area with like a bunch of one species where it is like they are living on their own, but kind of not. True they are saving more and more species from dying out, but couldn't they do it a more better way to support the animal's point of veiw?