野生动物与宠物

动物可分为野生动物和家养动物,越来越多的野生动物被人们当作宠物来饲养。野生动物作为宠物的危害是巨大的。野生动物对人类的危害主要包括直接攻击人类,携带病原威胁人类以及对环境设施造成的破坏。人类对野生动物的危害包括野生动物驯养繁殖、疾病传播等方面。野生动物对家养动物的危害包括直接危害和疾病危害。因此,野生动物不适合作为宠物饲养,不仅仅是因为它们原本的生活习性,对野生动物资源的破坏,更重要的是病原体可能跨越种间障碍而威胁人类的安全。

Wildlife and Pets

Animals can be divided into wild animals and domesticated animals.Nowdays,more and more people keep wild animals as pets.The danger of wild animals as pets is enormous.The danger of wild animals to humans includes direct attacks against humans,carrying pathogens that threaten human and environmental infrastructure damage.The danger of human to wildlife includes captive breeding of wild animals and disease transmission.The danger of wild animals to domestic animals includes direct damage and disease hazards.Therefore,the wild animals are not suitable as pets,not only because they had natural living habits or the destruction of wildlife resources,but also more importantly,is that the pathogen may cross species barrier and threaten human safety.