The Practice of Destruction of Animals for the Teaching of Practical Zoology in West Bengal, India : It's Negative Impact

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This is well known to everybody that the existence of each species in an ecosystem in a food chain is very important to maintain the balance of an ecosystem of any area. The practice of destruction of several animal lives during the hours of practical classes of Zoology has been doing by different Colleges and Universities of West Bengal, India.

# 2

It is beyond doubt that learning of science subjects is incomplete without practical demonstration, and the dissections are important to grow the knowledge of the students of Zoology about the different anatomical features of different animals. But it is also true that continuous destruction of the animals for study will create a massive problem in future on the ecosystem. So we have to find out separate ways of teaching. Besides some animals are killed and preserved with Formalin for practical demonstration and identification purposes.

My eyes remained filled up with tears when I was dissecting animals as a student of Zoology by thinking how much cruel attitudes shown by us to the animals. I don't know whether you are believing it or not.

# 3

Now-a days the Councils/ Universities are preparing the practical syllabus of Zoology for class-XII, B.Sc (Honours and General), M.Sc. courses where the contents of dissection is little comparatively than the syllabus was present before 5-6 years ago. It is a good news, but it will be BEST when there will be no killing of animals for teaching and learning purposes. Teaching/culture of Zoology should be restricted within such a surrounding that we must not exploit wild lives.

# 4

Animals can't protest against the killing them by men, because they have no force to protect themselves from the claw of human civilization, they have no court or justice policy by which they can stop the strangulation by man. But we should have a sympathetic mind. Just you think what are we doing for our learning purposes ? We are washing our hands with the R.B.C., W.B.C. and Thrombocytes/Platelets (Components of animal blood) of animals to learn !!!!!!!!!.

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