National Day meets the World Animal Day, the zoo organizes the national linkage: "Loves you One Life, the Love is Restrains"

In 2001, a white fallow deer died, anatomy found in the stomach of the plastic bags weighing up to 2.5 kilograms; In 2005, the Black-and-white wart monkeys ate the barbecue skewers which the tourists threw, the bamboo stick punctured its oral cavity cause inflammation, finally caused the death. At the Shanghai Zoo, these recorded animals were killed and injured by the feeding of tourists, and the management was always nervous during large passenger flow.

October 4 is the World Animal Day, including the Shanghai Zoo in the national major zoos organized a national linkage, to "love You, Love is restraint" initiative tourists refused to feed animals.

"She Yi" Golden Week the first three days Shanghai zoo total visitors amounted to 112,000 people, set the peak of the zoo visitors this year, and a large number of passengers will be driven to feed events, but also to the zoo management worry. October 4, on the occasion of World Animal Day, Shanghai Zoo played a slogan, please visitors in the World Animal Day signature promise refused to feed.

Shanghai Zoo-related officials told surging News (www.thepaper.cn), the zoo based on the life habits of different animals, different periods of physical condition, developed a balanced nutrition, rich variety of scientific feed ratio, supplemented by appropriate feeding methods, has been able to meet the daily needs of the animal nutrition and energy. In the zoo with a special food for animals "animal Kitchen", the staff daily according to the booking feed list, all kinds of animal food preparation, processing, and then transported by car to various posts. Zoo feed sources, processing, storage also has a standardized management. These ensure the healthy growth of animal husbandry. Because the zoo's "animal Kitchen" has provided a balanced diet for animals, extra food can cause indigestion in animals, and can lead to obesity in animals and other diseases such as hyperglycemia, serious and even animal death. "Animals rely on human friends and do not have the ability to tell whether food is healthy or not," he said.

Second, mouth, feeding may also cause disease spread between humans and animals. Therefore, for the healthy growth of animals, visitors are invited not to feed the animals to carry food. "The garden side says.

In addition, the tourist's food, although palatability is good, but will destroy the animal nutrition balance. Some foods (such as bread) can easily cause herbivores (such as elephants) to belch gas, stomach bulge, the difficult to digest food thrown into the pavilion, such as packaging bags, plastic bottles and other easy to plug the intestinal tract of animals, bring great pain to animals and even death. There have been many incidents in Shanghai Zoo where animals have been fed by tourists.

Animal casualty cases in Shanghai Zoo:
1993, the Giraffe "seaside" once because of eating tourists feeding food bags, causing gastrointestinal congestion death.
In the 2000, a blue Fox's eyes were stabbed blind by tourists with bamboo sticks and died.
2000, a red Fox's abdomen was killed by tourists.
2001, two precious white fallow deer swallowed foreign body, died.
A white fallow deer died in 2001, and the plastic bags in the stomach weighed 2.5 kilograms.
A 6-year-old female deer died abnormally in 2001 and found 3.5 kilograms of heavy plastic bags in its stomach.
2001, the red gorilla "Sen Tai" because of eating too many tourists fed the food got diabetes.
In the 2005, the Black-and-white wart monkeys ate the barbecue skewers that the tourists threw, and the bamboo sticks pricked their mouth to cause inflammation, which eventually led to death.