More "Bang For The Buck"
Artificial, realistic animals have several advantages over the live ones. For example:

  1. Closer Visitor Interactions: Your visitors will be able to get amazing, photographs of themselves near the animals.
  2. No feeding costs or requirements
  3. No veterinarian costs or requirements
  4. More visitor interaction: people can pet the animals
  5. Better Shows: Animations can be delivered all day, on time, on cue (like when a bus full of students are all standing at the display area)
  6. Better Educational Presentations: You can present the exact species even if it is extinct, or protected
  7. No concern for danger
  8. The artificial animal displays can easily be moved to new areas, if required
  9. The animals look as they do in the wild, not like zoo animals (many get fat, cage sores, and some sort of disease)
  10. Some of the realistic, artificial animals can be brought out of cages, and presented in person, as be walked through the biomes, or even a local shopping mall or morning talk show.