Shit, I’d live in a zoo as display, that would rock lol.
Realistically speaking…how much would we really get to know about the human in a zoo? Being confined, and all that solitude would eventually drive them mad, I think. We might learn a lot about psychology this way. But humans usually don’t live that way, so we’d learn about psychological anomalies, rather than how a human, as we know it, lives. (unless you gave him or her something that resembles a modern state of life, rather than set the human in a primitive environment, which is what I’m imagining from this question) The point of a zoo is to represent the animal in its natural habitat, even if it’s a simulation…sometimes I wonder if we get the proper presentation of the animals themselves, probably not too much. An eagle is meant to fly, and a tiger is meant to hunt. :/
But then, perhaps I’ve the meaning of a zoo wrong, I guess it’s there to show all sorts of animals, instead of showing us how they are in the wild. A human could be a reasonable addition as any, depending on beliefs, in this case. I wouldn’t advocate that, but then, I don’t really like zoos to begin with, even if most of the animals they pick up, apparently, are ones that would have died in the wild, otherwise.