NEWSELA Issue Overview: Should We Have Zoos? (January 2019)

extremely high risk of extinction in the wild

• critics

• criticize

• characteristics

• critically endangered

the process involving the protection of animals

• consecutively endangered

• conceptualization

• conservatory

• conservation

the ability to maintain a wide variety of animals to ensure a healthy ecosystem

• biodiversity

• biological characteristics

• biodiverticulitis

• biodiverticulosis

the protection of an animal species in its natural environment

• ex-situ conservation

• in-situ conservation

• situational conservatives

• extracurricular conservation

the protection of an animal species outside of its natural habitat

• external conflict

• ex-situ conservation

• extracurricular conservation

• extraterrestrial

the variety of genes within a given species

• genetic diversity

• generational characteristics

• generator

• genetic testing

statistical data relating to the population of a species and the particular groups within it.

• democracy

• demographics

• demonstrational statistics

• deviational geostatistics

the action of treating a living being unfairly in order to benefit from it

• exploratory genetics

• exploitation

• extrapolating statistics

• extraterrestrial

the failure to obey established guidelines

• non-reliant

• non-conservation

• non-complexity

• non-compliance

supporters; proponents

• administrators

• advocates

• advisory

• ad-lib