Todays' award goes to a zoo in Linfen, China. A tip o' the hat to Andrew in Australia for sending me the link.
A warm and fuzzy, cute and furry stunt at a zoo in China almost turned red and bloody with an unnecessary loss of life and/ or limb.
This was after the zookeepers there tried to do a symbolic passing of baton event for the Lunar New Year by putting a rabbit and tiger within close proximity of each other.
A video posted on Weibo showed exactly what happened next: The tiger, a juvenile, upon getting a whiff of the rabbit, decided to take a nice big bite out of a fellow mammal.
There's more at the link, including pictures. The rabbit was rescued just in time.
What can I say? You put an apex predator (albeit a juvenile one) right next to a big, fluffy piece of meat. What the heck did they expect would happen???
One can only presume that the staff concerned had their full share of touchy-feely, politically correct, modern indoctrination - what passes for education these days.
Sheeeeesh!!!
Peter
6 comments:
Doh!!! Sigh
I don't think that cat fully understood the significance of the moment. They must not have explained it well enough. It's a little bit amazing that anyone would put them that close and not know what was going to happen. Who Wouldn't Know exactly what was going to happen? Only a lefty.
I assume the year of the rabbit gave way to the year of the tiger. lol,
Would have helped if they had just finished FEEDING the cat!
And those bright people run an animal based business...
Hey! They watched Bambi and The Lion King as kids.
Anybody who thinks the rabbit survuved that bite is in major denial.
Rabbits are LITERALLY thin skinned, you yank on one, it is literally skinned alive.
Good if you are hunter!
BAD if you are rabbit @ skinless = DEAD soon!
That cat clearly had teeth in, game over. Trying to yank rabbit away? Brilliant... and messy. Note there is NO commentary/update on the rabbit recovering etc etc.
Anyhoo...
Doofus award well applied to those fools!
~JO
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