tiger: 1, zookeeper: 0

By anders pearson 22 Mar 2001

i went to a couple zoos when i was in china.

i don’t recommend that anyone who shares any degree of western society’s views on cruelty to animals do the same. animals kept in unsanitary concrete and iron pens barely big enough to hold them. miniature stallions made to fight each other for onlookers’ amusement. a black bear being led around by a ring in its cheek, being beaten with a stick and made to do tricks for the crowd; its entire nose shredded from where the ring used to be but obviously tore through the flesh too many times. not for the weak-stomached.

hence, this makes me happy.