Polar bear family; A mother and twin babies
動物園は複雑な気持ちにさせられるところです。囲いの中に棲んで人間に見られる動物の生活が楽しいものとは思えませんが、しかし、自然界では近づくこともできない動物を目の当たりにじっくり眺められるのは非常に貴重なありがたい場所です。もちろん現代の動物園は環境に改良を重ね、自然な生態を観察できるよう配慮と工夫を凝らしています。もしかすると「動物は野生の大自然の中で暮らすのが一番幸せ」というのは、先入観でしょうか？
ホッキョクグマの親子が泳いだり遊んだりする様をしばらく眺めていて、ふと周りを見ると人間の親子が大勢訪れて、動物達を見たり、歩いたり遊んだりしていました。一瞬、何だか人間も動物もそれほど違わない、と思えてしまいました。
Going to the zoo causes me mixed feelings. Those animals's life in cage and seen by human sounds no fun, but this is also such a valuable place where we can gaze at animals which we never be allowed to go near in nature. Certainly modern zoo keeps improving environment and carefully taking measures to show these animals in as natural ways as possible. Possibly, might it be too soon to judge that animals are only living happy in wild and natural?
I was watching polar bear family swimming and playing for a while, and then happened to see around. I saw lots of human families were watching animals, walking around and playing. For the slipt second I felt humans and animals had not so much differences.
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