Yehudayona, the animals that you see in the zoo are not usually captured from the wild but are born and bred in the zoo, and shared among zoos. So if tigers become extinct in the wild, they will still exist in the zoos, where no one is hunting them or destroying their habitat to extinction. Do you think the zoos will just decide they are no longer interesting and throw them away if they become extinct in the wild? Some zoos (sorry, zoological societies) have even given themselves a mandate to preserve species that are near extinct- they have specialized breeding programs, etc. Even if they don’t achieve their goal of re-instating these animals to the wild, there will be several left for people to see in the zoo.
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