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761 - Animals in a Zoo
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 9:00am EST by Center for Educational Development
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pAre zoos are a good idea or a bad one? Don’t feed the animals while you listen to this episode trying to answer that question./p pSlow dialogue: 0:59 br /Explanations: 2:39 br /Fast dialogue: 16:18/p pDeborah: I can’t wait to see the elephants at the zoo. I wish I could see them in their natural habitat, but a zoo is the next best thing./p pZach: I don’t want to go to a place where animals are kept in captivity. How would you like it if you were locked in a cage and gawked at all day?/p pDeborah: The animals in zoos are lucky. They have a nice, safe place to live away from predators, and their handlers make sure they never go hungry. Zoos preserve endangered species./p pZach: If you think it’s so nice living in zoos, I’d like to see you switch places with a lion or a monkey for a month and see how you like it./p pDeborah: Animals aren’t people. They don’t have the same wants and needs./p pZach: That’s what you think. One day, the animals aren’t going to take it anymore. They’ll rise up and break their shackles./p pDeborah: And will you be their ringleader?/p pZach: No, I’ll be their cheering section. It’s about time animals get some respect./p pDeborah: Have you seen uPlanet of the Apes/u?! I’ll reserve a cage for you!/p pScript by Dr. Lucy Tse/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EnglishAsASecondLanguagePodcast/~4/ImM0q3ay3eY" height="1" width="1"/
