However, being a bleeding heart animal rights liberal I think those zoos should be shut down.
I might agree with you when talking about the Zoo's in the old fashioned sense, alot of modern zoo's however are "open" zoo's with plenty of space to roam.
I also think that zoo's play an educational and conservative role (which I'm sure you'll agree is a good thing yes?)
so they can fuck off if they're getting an animal for free just to profiteer
What if the zoo was free (minus running costs, or run on federal funding?)