Chris Perez reports at the NY Post that the Lehe Ledu Wildlife Zoo in Chongqing city is giving people the hair-raising chance to learn what it’s like to come face to face with an apex predator. Visitors pay to be caged inside the back of a truck as it makes its way through the animal park. Just to make sure they get the attention of the beasts, huge chunks of raw meat are tied to the bars to lure them as close as possible. “We wanted to give our visitors the thrill of being stalked and attacked by the big cats but with, of course, none of the risks,” says Chan Liang. “The guests are warned to keep their fingers and hands inside the cage at all times because a hungry tiger wouldn’t know the difference between them and breakfast.” According to CNN the trips have been sold out for the next three months. “It’s like nothing I’ve ever experienced before in a zoo,” says Tao Jen. “We’re not looking at them, they’re looking at us — and we’re lunch.”
(Score: 4, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Thursday January 08 2015, @03:49PM
I've been to the Beijing Zoo a couple times. The first time on my own, the second time for a group trip. Visitors routinely abused the animals, whose cages were horrific steel and concrete affairs with not even a pastiche of habitat. They threw rubbish at the creatures; one man I saw put out his cigarette on the back of a sea otter that lay, semi-comatose and forlorn, on a concrete slab that constituted its enclosure.
Throwing Chinese to the animals in the zoo would accomplish nothing lasting because of the Chinese relativity theorem ("No matter what it is, a billion Chinese couldn't give a damn"), but it would be a smidgeon of poetic justice.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 09 2015, @12:53AM
Throwing Chinese to the animals in the zoo would accomplish nothing lasting
Of course not. An hour later they'd be hungry again.