Posted on 04/20/2018 4:45:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin
One kangaroo was killed and another injured at a zoo in southeast China after visitors to their enclosure pelted the animals with rocks and other objects in an apparent attempt to get the kangaroos to hop around. The abuse has sparked fury online and prompted renewed scrutiny into the mistreatment of animals at Chinese zoos, several of which have gained notoriety in recent years for cramped and cruel conditions.
Zookeepers at the Fuzhou Zoo in Fujian Province told the Haixia Metropolis News this week that at least one visitor threw “multiple” sharp-edged rocks at a 12-year-old female kangaroo in March to compel her to jump, leaving her badly injured and in “deep pain.” She died a few days later of profuse internal bleeding, her caretakers said.
A 5-year-old male kangaroo in the same enclosure was reportedly also injured last month after a visitor threw part of a brick at him. The younger kangaroo was not seriously hurt.
“Some adult [visitors] see the kangaroos sleeping and then pick up stones to throw at them,” a Fuzhou Zoo attendant told the Haixia Metropolis News. “Even after we cleared all the stones from the display area, they went elsewhere to find them. It’s abhorrent.”
The Fuzhou Zoo said it had applied for funding to install high-definition surveillance cameras to better identify perpetrators. They added that now only three kangaroos would be on display to reduce the risks to the animals.
Chinese zoos have made headlines in recent years for mistreatment of animals. Last year, visitors were horrified when a live donkey was fed to tigers at a so-called safari park near Shanghai. In 2016, hundreds of thousands of people called for the closure of Guangzhou’s Grandview Aquarium, dubbed the “saddest zoo in the world,” after photos of the facility’s barren enclosures went viral.
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Was it summarily eaten?
I was at zoo in India and you could drop coins to activate a water hose next to the monkey cage. You would first buy food for them and put them in range of the water hose. When the monkeys were within range you would fire away! Unfortunately, the hoes stayed on for less than 10 seconds, so you had to keep on putting more money into the machine.
Wow, that's not even long enough for me.
I went to the Beijing Zoo in 2007. It was very depressing. You could easily see how miserable the animals were.
Too bad they can’t feed the perps to the alligators.
This must be a really small zoo. The Bronx zoo is massive, and visitors spend much of their time looking at shrubbery instead of animals. No question of getting close enough to throw bricks there, unless you bring a portable trebuchet.
The zoo in Wuhan is awful.
Twenty years ago 99.9% of the Chinese people were living pretty much the same lives that their ancestors lived in 1400.
C'mon now...let's keep it clean here! This is a family website! ;-)
I think you might wanna check your spelling here! ;-)
It’s china after all, I know what they do to their unborn babies.
Bury them up to their shoulders and stone them...
I went to college with a kid that had fled Vietnam on those last days - his brother stole a helicopter and they landed on one of our ships.
He was primitive. Would catch rattlesnakes - chop off their tails and let them loose. Or would cop the tails, then their heads, and wear the heads on his baseball cap. (He was supposed to be doing field work, but instead was searching for rattlesnakes). They never bothered me.
He said growing up they would catch a rat, douse it with gas and light it on fire and then let it loose to run around.
Some other goofball things that I don’t recall now.
Diversity is our strength!
“Wow, that’s not even long enough for me.”
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I’m an old lady and that should have gone right over my head-——but it didn’t. :-)
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I spent seven months in the hinterlands of China in fall & winter of ‘76 and spring of ‘77 and it was like going back 2,000 years. One room mud houses, no glass windows, dirt floors, thatch roofs, open cooking fires, garbage tossed into the streets, “meat market”with raw fly-covered meat sitting in the dirt streets, communal “honey pots,” fertilizing fields with human waste, men hauling barges up the Yangtze River by pulling tow ropes (no mules), children three or four years old unloading bricks from barges with bamboo packs, local clay works and primitive kiln making clay tiles. ONE gasoline powered vehicle in the entire town used to transport the western workers from the guest house to the plant. The mud buildings each had one electric light bulb of which they were very proud. The cruelty to animals was staggering. I won’t even describe what I witnessed.
Love of and fascination with animals is a strictly Western thing. To the rest of the world, animals are to be feared and/or hunted and eaten. Torturing and tormenting animals is considered great fun. Most Third World zoos are horrifying, and these sorts of incidents are especially common in Chinese zoos. Indeed, many of the large animals on the endangered species list are there due to the sexual insecurities of the Chinese.
We were there a few years ago and seeing what the street vendors offered for sale was appalling. They sold it as food but there were netted bags full of little green turtles or frogs or cages full of dogs. There was a back alley my friend went down and told us don’t go down there because of what they were selling. She wouldn’t tell us what was there but she was visibly shook up.
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