World Animal Day Shanghai Zoo Appeal: The charity is not Love

Oriental Network October 5 News: Holidays, more visitors to the zoo, the phenomenon of feeding animals also increased. Yesterday coincided with World Animal Day, the National Zoo held a commemorative event, to send a call to visitors: Love you, Love is restraint, refused to feed, from me. In Shanghai Zoo, the park side held refused to feed commitment activities, many visitors signed on the signature board, promised not to feed animals, and photo upload microblogging. In recent years, the Shanghai Zoo caused by tourists disorderly feeding and animal death or pathogenic phenomenon also occurs, the most sensational event is the 1993 giraffe "seaside" by eating tourists fed food packaging bags, resulting in gastrointestinal congestion death.

More than half of the national Day holiday, the butterfly show in Shanghai Zoo has attracted more than 100,000 visitors. The owner of the park said that, generally speaking, the more tourists, the more the phenomenon of feeding animals, individual animals will eat too much to get "holiday sickness." The reporter in the garden a little turn round, found several tourists in feeding animals, because cage house barbed wire barrier, food is difficult to be thrown in, some tourists still find ways to feed. In the animal exhibition area, the primate area is the hardest hit to feed. Because primates are smart, some will take the initiative to eat food, some eat food will make a variety of reactions, so very pleasing to tourists, but also increase the chance of being fed. In the chimpanzee's living area, a chimpanzee reached out to the tourists for food, a tourist immediately threw the banana in the past, the chimpanzees picked up, peel off the banana peel, flattered to eat up, tourists see, happily and friends to share his "good deeds."

In fact, tourists think that the ' kindness ' to animals is not love, but a curse. "Zoo-related officials, zoo animals have recipes, every day by the" Animal Kitchen "after the production, distribution to each exhibition area, and then feeding by the breeder, the extra food fed by tourists will cause indigestion, and then suffering from high blood sugar and other diseases, serious will lead to death. For example, the bread will cause the elephant and so on herbivores belch gas, the stomach bilges, the food packing bag, the plastic bag can cause the animal intestines to clog, causes the animal to bring the great pain. In addition, tourists feeding leftover food may also cause diseases between humans and animals spread.

It is understood that the Shanghai zoo due to tourists feeding food caused by animal death or disease-causing incidents occur. 1993, the Giraffe "seashore" abdominal pain unbearable, the last tragic death. The anatomy found a lot of plastic bags in the stomach. To warn posterity, the zoo made a "seaside" specimen and built a memorial pavilion. An abnormal death of a female deer in 2001 revealed that it had 3.5 kilograms of heavy plastic bags in its stomach.

Yesterday, the Shanghai Zoo in the park set up 3 signature board, called on visitors to sign a promise: Love animals, refused to feed. Shortly after, 150 signatures were obtained. The director of the park stressed that "some primates have reached for food, and they are taught by human beings, hoping that visitors can really love animals and not feed them." ”