Buenos Aires to Close 140-Year-Old Zoo, Saying "Captivity Is Degrading"

Buenos Aires is shutting down its zoo to give the animals a better life.

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, mayor of Argentina's capital city, said keeping wild animals in captivity and on display is degrading, The Guardian reported. The zoo's 2,500 animals -- 89 species of mammals, 49 species of reptiles and 175 species of birds -- will be moved to nature reserves...read more.