The dangers within a zoo vary from

The dangers within a zoo vary from the animals being exposed to disease and chemicals to their enclosures 100 times smaller then their home range. Jordi Casamitjana, an Independent Animal Welfare Consultant with particular experience of the captive wildlife industries, compared the average enclosure size of a random sample of fifty mammals in 103 UK zoos (25% of all UK zoos) to the home range of the species in the wild.