Readers React: Tigers don’t belong in zoos

The San Diego Zoo is promoting the new 5.2-acre park it built for $19.5 million as a benefit for the tigers it keeps in captivity. Tigers require much more space in the wild. (“San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s new tiger enclosure brings big cats closer to fans,” May 26)

I can only assume the San Diego Zoo has, in reality, built this tiger park for the general public’s entertainment, along with the dollars people pay for said entertainment, and not for the tigers. Zoos cannot provide the amount of space tigers or any other wild animal require to live a fulfilling life.

Animals in captivity show us nothing of the true behavior they would exhibit in their natural habitats. A captive wild animal can only show us the loneliness and boredom they experience, day in and day out, for the entirety of their miserable lives.

Laura Frisk

Encinitas