A hot search that has been fermented for several days rushed to the first place:
Netizens found that stray cats appeared in the monkey group of Kunming Zoo, and the monkey cat polybreeding did not have the scene of the harmonious coexistence of small animals in the cartoon.
看上去equivalent brutal:
Cats are dragged among monkeys, ridden, and even forced to mate.
The cat's mental state is no longer normal, and there are multiple scars on its face.
They have lost their resistance and seem to be alive and unloved.
Rescue the cat.
Rescue the cat from the monkeys, or from the malice of humans?
A zoo.
A zoo that is supposed to be a place for children to learn about nature and explore curiosity.
but openly staged the drama of 18 bans:
凌辱，剥削，囚禁，性侵......
Why would anyone turn a blind eye?
Why would someone deliberately connive.
Why has it only now been publicly expressed that it is inappropriate?
In 2024, we should see this invisible chain.
01
On January 19, the Kunming Zoo issued its first notice, explaining that the release of cats into the monkey colony has been going on for more than a decade, initially to catch mice.
Finally, it was emphasized that "living in harmony".
In response to netizens' questions about the cat's health, the zoo insisted that the cat had "bright coats and good health", could "live in harmony" with the monkeys, and "there was no abuse".
As soon as this remark came out, public opinion exploded.
According to netizens, Kunming Zoo is not a first offense.
In 2017, the "Spring City Evening News" reported that the two cats released into the monkey group at the Kunming Zoo were often bullied, and even killed by the monkeys a long time ago.
But the breeder completely ignores the problem of monkey-cat mixing.
The cats were all killed.
They didn't think of any other way to deal with the rodent infestation.
But:
Keep putting the cats, put more cats.
△ Source: 2017 "Spring City Evening News" report
The managers of Kunming Zoo have never treated cats as animals worth protecting, and in their eyes, cats are just tools to catch mice.
It's a consumable.
In order to catch mice, it is okay to be toyed to death by monkeys, and it is a big deal to change a batch, anyway, there are more stray cats.
In the eyes of Kunming Zoo, cats are not animals?
The word Zoo comes from the London Zoological Gardens in 1828, and as the name suggests, it was a park for research and education, and it has since grown to become an important site for animal conservation.
To put it simply.
A zoo is a park for animals, a place that provides services to them and is open to the public.
It was supposed to be reassuring for all animals.
But whether it is the announcement that cannot be convived by the public now, or the indifference to the killing of cats in the past, it shows that it is sufficient:
In the Kunming Zoo, life that should be equal is artificially divided into hierarchies.
Monkeys can amuse tourists and bring profits.
Stray cats have no ornamental value, so they can be used as "slaves" to monkeys.
We have to be skeptical.
If the staff of the animal nursery are not as caring and protective as the family, can the other animals in the park really be treated humanely?
02
At the beginning of this incident, some people sighed, you see that monkeys are like this, how cruel and stubborn their nature is.
But is the problem with the monkeys?
We are angry that:
Why does such an inhumane thing happen again and again in a place that preaches childlike fun and love?
It was powerlessness that angered everyone.
In 2007, Zhengzhou Zoo in Henan Province, also on the grounds of rodent control, once released two stray cats into the monkey group, and the "Henan Business Daily" also made a report for this, with the title "Monkeys fall in love with cats".
At that time, someone also found a problem.
A young man from Hebei came from afar to pick up the cat.
He perceives the abnormality of the cat in the photo, believing that the cat has been mentally tortured by monkeys.
As a director of the Small Animal Protection Society, he tried to convince the zoo to remove the cats from the perspective of animal welfare: "From the perspective of animal welfare, cats and monkeys are equal, and the interests of the monkeys cannot be sacrificed for the rights and interests of cats." ”
See the zoo indifferent.
From the monkey's point of view, he also argues that monkeys and cats should not be mixed: "Two different species, once the cat carries the germ, it will affect the health of the monkey. ”
But what about the result.
The rhetoric of Zhengzhou Zoo is no different from today's Kunming Zoo.
The administrator said "disagree" and "live in harmony", and the guy could only leave in disgrace.
Now cats and monkeys have gradually adapted to getting along
The cat's fur is shiny and fat
Zoos have the ability to provide a good living environment for cats
Today, if there are no caring people to "defy the law", then the fate of the two cats in Kunming Zoo is probably similar to that year.
On January 26, a woman climbed the railing of Monkey Mountain at Kunming Zoo and cried to save the cat: "They bully cats, rape cats, I want to help it, I want to jump!"
The comment area is full of cynicism:
"What's the matter?", "I love cats so much that my brain is stupid", "Extreme feminism and extreme animal protection......
Sir is not supporting this kind of excesses.
Ironically.
If it wasn't deliberately made a big fuss, could there be a follow-up to this matter?
It was the day after the woman "made trouble".
On January 27, the Kunming Zoo issued a notice saying that it had reached a negotiation with the Small Animal Protection Association to trap the two cats out of Monkey Mountain.
On January 28, the two cats were safely removed from the zoo and taken to Beijing, where they will be handed over to the care of the Small Animal Protection Association.
The mental state of the two cats in the video completely slapped the first announcement in the face.
Is this what the zoo thinks, "bright coat and good health"?
According to the latest statement from doctors, both cats have certain diseases, some numbness, and need to take psychotropic drugs.
This has a lot to do with prolonged scares.
We pay attention to this event and substitute for the cat's situation.
There are several reasons for this:
Cats are cute pets.
Today, there are more and more young people who have cats, even if you don't have them, you can often brush up on many cute cats in short videos.
Cats that should be cared for and pampered are abused, and it stings the soft places in everyone's hearts.
Monkeys are social animals.
The monkey group has a clear hierarchy and power structure, and to put it bluntly, it is a simulated human society, and the violence and abuse of this group evokes our associations and makes people feel creepy.
At last.
It's institutional, it's systemically unfair.
A social institution operates like a machine, and evil has become the norm in it, and no one cares about it and stops it in this system.
Even if you are criticized verbally and penually, you can still safely get away with responsibility: it is to catch mice, and the original intention is good.
As human beings, we can also have a voice.
But the horror is, just think:
Is it possible for us to become "cats" at some point?
In the midst of collective violence, they are powerless to resist and unable to call for help, so they can only allow themselves to be trampled on repeatedly.
This time.
You may think of "Blind Mountain", or you may think of "Furong Town".
The outside of Monkey Mountain.
There are even more fierce and stubborn monkeys, who have learned to bathe the monkey and crown it, and look like a human.
03
Again, emphasize.
Save the cat, it's not just the cat that is saved.
It's not that cats are cuteer than other animals.
Our concerns are:
When zoos treat stray cats with such a philosophy, will they really take care of other animals?
The netizen who initially found the cat abnormal said at the end of the post:
I will never go to any zoo again in my life.
These words reminded Sir of a lot of shocking news.
In 2023, a keeper exposed that in order to control costs, a zoo in Harbin buys rotten fruits at low prices, feeds raccoons with radish, dog food, and cabbage every day, and "starves and beats the animals when they are fine".
In 2020, when the epidemic broke out, because the company owed wages and no one managed it, the gate of the zoo in the shopping mall in Changsha, Hunan Province was locked, and the white fox trapped in the cage gnawed on the carcass of the alpaca.
Today, in addition to the mixed living of monkeys and cats, netizens also found more abnormalities in Kunming Zoo.
In 2017, the Kunming Zoo sent the first-class protected animal baby elephant Mo Li to a zoo in Henan Province on the grounds of adjusting the blood relationship, and since then Mo Li has been forced to learn animal performance, and he has not had a peaceful birthday.
In 2022, the tragic situation of the baby elephant was exposed and returned to Kunming Zoo. But recently, it has been discovered that Jasmine has many stereotypical behaviors, such as meaningless shaking her head and pacing back and forth.
But this pot actually points to more than just Kunming Zoo.
And then there's our backward awareness of animal protection.
The BBC documentary "Should We Close the Zoo" seriously explores this issue.
Both elephants in captivity at the zoo are sick, suffering from arthritis and chronic foot diseases, respectively.
Cause?
There is little walking distance, and at the same time, I am not walking on the right material (it is dirt and grass and not concrete).
Especially in winter, elephants can only nest indoors in more confined spaces.
In addition, tourists often feed the elephants unnatural foods such as cakes, which also makes captive elephants more obese than wild elephants.
Stress and obesity are two of the main causes of the short life of elephants in captivity.
According to one statistic, female Asian elephants born in captivity live for an average of 19 years, while those elephants who are enslaved to work every day in Burma's logging yards live to about 40 years old.
British scientists believe that almost all large carnivores in captivity, because of the small space for movement, lack of trekking, even if they are well fed, clothed and warm, will have psychological problems, which will lead to stereotyped behavior.
So, when zoo animals are sluggish and indifferent, it's not that they're lazy and cute.
This is actually extreme sadness and frustration.
Today, more and more zoos call themselves animal protection centers, but documentaries tell us that this claim does not stand up to the test.
Take the northern white rhino, for example.
In 1975, the northern white rhino was first brought to the Czech palace town zoo, where only four calves were born in captivity, and over the years, the zoo struggled to increase the chances of breeding the northern white rhino.
Artificial insemination failed.
Sending outdoors? Loss.
In 2015, the staff was desperate to discover that the history of the development of captive populations was also the history of the slow extinction of species.
So, is the end result of the zoo going to be closed?
The documentary does not give a rough conclusion.
It just wanted to emphasize one point:
The way humans treat animals needs to evolve and rethink.
At zoos, animal welfare always comes first. It is necessary to enrich the living environment of animals, expand the space for activities, and reduce the types and numbers of animals.
The most important thing is to start from the site conditions and raise animals that are suitable for the local climate.
We don't need a random zoo with zebras, giraffes, elephants, rhinos, and all the animals to turn the zoo into a stage for money-making performances.
We shouldn't just think about our own play experience and throw random food to animals.
In recent years, there have been more and more wildlife parks in the mainland, which have become the business card of almost every city, and even small zoos and aquariums have been built in some indoor commercial buildings.
Before you know it, we are the country with the largest number of zoos in the world.
But is this an achievement to celebrate?
Perhaps, the way Kunming Zoo treats stray cats is a wake-up call for us:
We still have too many poor regulations on zoos, and we are vague.
There is still much that can be improved on animal rights, our social consensus, legislative protection, and so on.
Finally, let's talk about something light-hearted.
When Kunming Zoo was first on the hot search, Sir thought of an old news.
The background is that the Danish government banned animal performances, they bought four circus elephants and put the issue of the elephants' retirement on the parliamentary agenda:
After the elephant was bought, it seemed that he had been depressed, so the officials discussed whether to "redeem" the elephant's good friend camel and retire with the elephant.
So, there was this joyful moment of laughter.
Perhaps this is what we want to do with interspecies friendship.
We all know that all things are created equal.
But as Animal Farm says, all animals are equal, but some animals are always more equal than others.
There is no end to the progress of civilization, the progress of human nature, and the progress of equality.
On the contrary, they often regress because of evil thoughts and desires.
But because of that.
Only then can we not give up the struggle for rights, empathy for the weak, and appeal for the rule of law.
So.
Kunming Zoo, and the "Kunming Zoo variant" that has not yet been exposed.
In the name of humanity.
We're all watching you.
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