Do zoos exploit animals and violate animal rights or do they help protect animals?

yea the animals have to be free and not be confined to cages they try simulate nature but not the space animals need space

NO, animals do not have rights. We are doing things against their will but not against their non-existant rights.

It would be foolish to assume that animals are the same as humans as we are clearly different.

Besides animals inflict pain on others all the time, we are not exempt unless you can prove we are not animals. All animals have the will to live but not the rights, or else there would never be carnivores.

Rights are a purely human concept, it does not exist naturally, if humans were not present there would be no rights. IT is up to people to decide on what rights are.

And I'm sure animals feel pain and emotions, evolutionally it probably helped them survive, but this a matter of opinion

If i was taught dogs liked being kicked and that it was the right thing to do i would be doing it right now and it would be the right thing.

What if an animal loved to be hurt, humans have BDSM and it can be assumed that some animals also do. How can a person decide for the animal?

Animals rights do not benefit humans in any way, rather it harms humans that depend on animals, maybe not you but what about the poor, hungry, or farmer? I rather have people love me than animals as people can judge and comment on my morality.