Myth: At the zoo you can bring something delicious to feed the animals so they don't go hungry.
Truth: In fact, zoos take good care of animals, they do not go hungry, and what we people think is delicious may not be suitable for animals, which may endanger their health.
Whether feeding at the drive window of a safari park or feeding through a cage at a zoo, visitors are at risk of being injured by animals, and this is easy to understand and not much to say.
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That feeding is obviously for animals to eat, why would it hurt them? For zoos, feeding from tourists is actually a very headache. The first thing to explain is that most of the animals in the domestic zoo are not mouthless, and the keepers will regularly and quantitatively put feed according to scientific proportions, so we don't need to worry about the animals going hungry. The snacks and other foods we feed are often too high in calories and salt, and the amount of animal movement under captive conditions is limited, which will cause animals to be prone to obesity and affect health, so zoos are prohibited from feeding animals.
Feeding makes animals fat. | Figureworm creative
In general, zoos will adopt isolation or discouragement for tourist feeding behavior.
Isolation is generally the use of glass walls, erecting barrier facilities and increasing the distance of trenches, but the road height is one foot high, and the wisdom of the majority of feeding tourists seems to be endless, and even some tourists will carry slingshots to shoot feed into the cage, or stuff thinner food such as noodles from the small hole in the isolation net into the cage.
Another way is to discourage, in the past, zoos would take the way of increasing human patrols, and when they encountered tourists with uncivilized behavior, they would come forward to dissuade them. Now many zoos have increased the deployment of surveillance cameras and installed broadcast horns next to the cameras, and once the monitoring room finds that there is uncivilized behavior, it can be reminded at the time, and if the tourists still insist on moving, the monitoring room will dispatch the nearest patrol to block.
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