Write 20 comprehension questions based on the following text: 
Zoos have changed out of all recognition.
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There are quite a lot of different species around the planet,
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which we wouldn't have today if it wasn't for zoos.
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What do you think an ideal zoo would look like?
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Closed.
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All through history, we've seen royal families,
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powerful people, emperors, have collections of animals.
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The king who was a good hunter was probably a good warrior,
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probably protect his people.
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Killing a lion or a bear was a big deal,
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but bringing back a live one showed even more power.
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Virtually all the history of zoos is about human control of nature.
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And it was a way of showing off.
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Queen Charlotte, her gift to everybody that she liked
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was to give them a kangaroo.
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And eventually we get the first modern zoo opening in London in 1828.
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To be able to suddenly see a giraffe for the first time,
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probably it was absolutely bonkers.
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There wasn't really an appreciation of animals needing certain things
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to have a good life.
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So you would see them in barren boxes, effectively,
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just as you would see a specimen in a natural history museum.
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JON COE: The story was, here's an object
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divorced from habitat, divorced from evolution.
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His name is, by the way, knucklehead.
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Knucklehead?!
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Well, as a rule, tapirs are rather stupid and unintelligent.
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Animals were thought of as basically automatons
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just responding in a reflexive manner,
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with no feelings of pain or any kind of emotional depth.
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But that's really shifted.
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Now there's much more of an understanding
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that we really need to look at their own type of intelligence
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and how they live in their world.
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The schoolchildren that come here to the wildlife park,
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all of them go away learning the messages that we know for sure
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are going to make a true difference to the animals
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back out into the wild.
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The biggest threat to wildlife comes from people,
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and most people live in cities.
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So zoos are very important because they provide an educational opportunity
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for people to learn about what the impacts of their daily activities are
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in far away places.
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JON COE: The zoo, by becoming a public attraction, if it's done properly,
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it seems to me like a pretty good idea. The animals have a good life.
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People enjoy it. They learn something.
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Hopefully they get involved in conservation.
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JON MINION: Pretty much all good zoos throughout the world
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are participators, or they help to support and fund a whole host
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of in-situ conservation programmes.
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And if it wasn't for those programmes,
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the world would be looking very different right now.
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Zoo populations of animals are insurance populations.
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Certain species,
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due to what's going on on the planet at the moment,
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the only way that we can stop them from going extinct
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will be to bring them into captivity.
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As we learn to adapt to things like climate change,
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we are going to see an increasing role for zoos.
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You can visit zoos all over the world that are just awful.
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You know, they're as bad as they were in the 1920s.
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ROBERT YOUNG: In the US they don't have very strict animal welfare laws.
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People can have animals in their back garden and call it a zoo.
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There are more pet tigers in the US than there are tigers in the wild.
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The legislation doesn't permit that kind of thing here in the UK,
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but you can get bad zoos anywhere.
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Those are all signs that they're missing out on some important aspect
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of how they live in the wild.
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The complexity of providing a good life for some of these animals,
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it's actually really, really difficult.
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There is some evidence that people will know more facts
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about a particular animal, for example,
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but follow up studies to see if they've actually changed their behaviour
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to benefit conservation,
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there's not much evidence to suggest that is happening.
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The official statistics show that 4% of revenue goes back into conservation.
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I mean, that's minimal. That's very small.
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And what do you find in zoos?
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Big cats and elephants and zebra
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and things that don't get released back into the wild.
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So if you want to save the condor,
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then you can have an in situ conservation programme
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that's based in the country where they come from.
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Most five year olds are experts in dinosaurs.
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They've never met one or seen one.
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The fascination's there,
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and I think the same can be harnessed with animals.
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There's many other technologies that are being developed these days,
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like awesome CGI, awesome robotics.
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I think the future holds something really cool
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in the sense of learning about animals
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without the detriment of keeping them in captivity.
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Virtual reality with wildlife encounters is really coming on.
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Taking a virtual walk through a herd of elephants in the Serengeti,
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I think, is going to be possible pretty soon.
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Do you think zoos should exist?
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It's kind of strange that we transport all of these animals
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from far from home and keep them locked up
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where you should see what nature has to offer on your doorstep.
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Wildlife documentary, virtual reality -
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none of these things have the same positive emotional impact that a zoo has.
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10% of the global population visit zoos every year.
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People from all walks of life and all social classes.
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So, I think, without zoos, we'd lose a massive opportunity
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to keep people being interested in the wild environment.
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How can we create a world where we don't need zoos?
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What I'm hoping is that we can design super sustainable cities
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so that you don't need to go to a place to see animals.
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They're all around you.