0I can't speak like you, not an intelligent as you are. But I cry and get hurt, I play, and I love, I love, and I am proud to where I belong. I belong there, the big cats, the wolves, the hyenas, the elephants, the giraffes, the monkeys, the bears, the cobras, the pythons, the eagles, the peacocks, the rivers like Kali, Krishna, Ganga, Kabini, Sharavathi, Yamuna, Brahmaputra, Nile, Yenisei, the trees like oaks, teaks, sandalwoods, banyans, jacaranda, pines; the flies, the whales, the golds, the octopuses, and infinite others. We live together in the heavens of the earth like the Western Ghats, the Eastern Ghats, the Amazon, the Sahara, the Atlantic, the Arabian, the Pacific, and the list just goes on. I am happy living where I belong to.
Human kids are often told stories of a lion who can aggressively come to kill the baby if he doesn't eat his food and here, we say to our cubs the reality of how humans can threaten our kingdom and destroy our lives. Let me narrate you a story of my cousin Cleo, the most handsome of all the bears in the forest. It was one fine morning in September, the rains and the sun played the environment beautifully together where the winds added the chill, the whole weather was just so perfect. We bear can easily give up on anything if we are bribed with beehives with no bees and more of honey, an extra sider of honey, a full course meal that has honey and to end with honey for dessert. Honey is the most delicious of all the foods that exist, though the chef bees are not our friends. Cleo and I badly craved for honey in that pleasant weather, and as we walked a mile away from our home, we saw a massive beehive with litres of honey flowing out of it. I believe that the entire bear community had never seen such a mouth-watering honey pot. "Jackpot", said Cleo, he didn't think twice and ran to run his tongue and fill his stomach like it was a banquet arranged for the bears by the Gods. But I stayed and made slower movements as my mother always told me to be aware of the traps that humans laid to abduct us. Cleo was busy caning and boom! The story that I was told since childhood turned out to be real. Cleo was trapped inside a net by the monster humans, and as I started screaming for help, they rushed and carried him away. The truck they brought with them had a banner "ZOO" in it, and I also saw Tara, the elephant; Dheer, the tiger; Voldin, the python; Zucu, the flamingo bird and many others. The truck drove away, and the families drowned in deep sorrow.
After a year, we tried to erase the worst memory from our lives and made an effort to move on. There was a sudden commotion everywhere in the forest, and for the first time in the history of the animal/bird kingdom, a bird took a flight away from the aviary of the monster human. Yes, Zucu was back home. He escaped the zoo and flew back to rejoin his family. There was a ding of admiration everywhere. The lion king had called all the families of the forest to attend the meeting that evening. Zucu was on the platform, and there were cheering and applause all over, he was asked to tell everything that happened in the zoo.
Zucu, the hero started with a loud weep and said it was hell, a hell that you all can never imagine of. I was kept on a very tiny cage where I hardly could even flap my wings. I was fed with some water and five chillies a day. Sometimes I even starved when the keeper forgot to feed me. There are many other animals, birds, reptiles, fishes, birds from all over the world who are kept in the worst conditions. The ones whose families are decreased and endangered are also imprisoned; the environment's big brains must protect them. Instead, they are torturing them.
The captive wild animals are also being taken to the circuses and other shows to perform and entertain. It is not the rule of nature and not the behaviour of animal kind. If any of the animals refuses or doesn't respond, they are punished and stabbed till they are hurt. The younger ones of the animals are being separated from their mothers at a very early age and are trained to pose for the cameras and selfies with humans. If an animal misbehaves, there are several instances where they are tortured, starved, and beaten wildly. And I also heard there are not many laws from the humankind towards the animal kind unlike us. If they are more number of the same species, then they are brutally killed. Humans give for making a zoo for the education they say, my dear friends, we don't know how to read, write or talk but we certainly know to educate our younger ones with good deeds. The animals are not preserved and are propagated, animals can only survive when in their natural habitats, and if zoo managements are genuine about conserving this genus, they should do it in the wilderness. All the animals there are blemished and are in emotional trauma. Many of our own are being illegally traded to other countries. It is very dangerous; we are in utmost danger my friends, our lives are at risk. Let's all hope that the humans don't wreck nature and learn to value the creation.
BAN THE ZOOS. THE LIVES OF ANIMALS ARE AT STAKE. IF THEY ARE HURT, THEN THE END IS NO FAR.
