This Isn't What You Expect at a Zoo...

[ChuckD]

Safari parks in China have agreed to stop feeding their lions and tigers large live animals such as horses -- at least in public.

The gory eating habits could lead visitors to believe that animals, both hunter and prey, were only human playthings, Xinhua news agency on Wednesday quoted Xie Youxin, the deputy general manager of the Wild Animal World in Chengdu, as saying.

"The bloody scene could also have implanted violent tendencies in youngsters," he said. Chengdu is the capital of southwestern Sichuan province.

Managers of 22 of 30 safari parks nationwide who signed an agreement last week said they acknowledged that wild animals had the same sense of "agony, terror and annoyance" as human beings.

Animal rights activists have criticized the state of China's zoos and the mistreatment of wild animals captured for their fur, or in the case of bears, for the healing power of their bile.

But the safari park agreement only restricts the release of large domestic animals, such as oxen and horses, during the presence of visitors, the agency said.

"Feeding when the park is not open is permitted. Parks are allowed to continue to sell small birds for visitors to feed the wild beasts."

 

[ChuckD]

Parks are allowed to continue to sell small birds for visitors to feed the wild beasts."

:shush 😱 😱

remind me to never go to the zoo at feeding time.

 

[4eVerFreeStyle]

OMG, I didn't know they did that DURING THE OPEN HOURS?????

Sh*t, the most I've seen is sharks eating dead flesh... nothing that we can identify either...

OMG!!!!

 

[ChuckD]

that is crazy stuff.

 

[Knightfell]

Just goes to show the different views of morality in different cultures.. Here we think it cruel and harsh but there they think it part of nature..

 

[Jennylicious]

Eww that's gross

 

[latinocop]

Just goes to show the different views of morality in different cultures.. Here we think it cruel and harsh but there they think it part of nature..

But isn't it part of nature for an animal to eat another animal live or dead. They do it here in the bronx zoo. I saw a vulture I belive eat an animal that appeared to be some type of fox. That's nature, that's life. What do you expect in a zoo? A disney type movie that prancing like in cartoons.

 

[Jennylicious]

I'm sorry but at a zoo I don't expect to see the animals eating other flesh..nah not when it's open to the public..now when it's closed well that's a different story.

 

[SPYBOY]

It is preserving the "hunting" mentality. Most "Western" zoos just drop a bucket of steak/meat in front of the lion/lynx/wild animal and it just leans over and it's chow time.

Most people watch this type of stuff on the Learning Channel or Discovery, but find it gross when they encounter it in real life.

It is a different country, a different mentality/lifestyle, we wouldn't understand because were not from there.

 

[ChuckD]

"mommy....can I buy a bird to feed the snakes???? Pleeeease!!!!"