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Cartoon: performing animals

Friday, 4. May 2007, 14:23:03

The Shanghai Wild Animal park, that bastion of politically-incorrect insensitivity and casual animal cruelty and humiliation, has been busy this May holiday, with several new shows and attractions.

One of these is a bicycling bear (a tight-rope motor-cycling bear caused outrage last year at this same 'zoo'), and the other is the option to buy a lil' duckling for 10rmb and feed it alive to a crocodile.

I know that this stuff happens in other countries too, and I also realise that nature is cruel and that far worse things happen in the natural world every minute; but the wild animal park has got to realise that with an influx of visitors for the Olympics next year such performing animals and displays of casual animal cruelty will harm the whole country's reputation.

Still... good for a laugh though. Hence this week's new cartoon. Credit to Flickr user 'mjnewhook' for the image of the duckling with the croc. (2 images, which will load below):

May holiday sunshine (and crowds)

Comments

Anonymous 11. June 2007, 13:39

Rake's Roundtable writes:

Interesting pics.
Poor Duckie.
Thanks.

Anonymous 28. July 2007, 23:55

chabuduo writes:

Nice one! Did you ever read about the poor rabbits back during the National holiday of 2004 in Hunan at some zoo? Bags of cabbage were being sold for 1 kuai, they sold 500 bags one day and by the end of the day 5 of the 7 rabbits stomachs had fatally burst, whilst the other two remained in a critical condition on the dirty ground.

Anonymous 10. August 2007, 00:17

Anonymous writes:

reminds me the time Discovery Channel tie down Bambi to film a kill.

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