Sriracha Tiger Zoo
The Sriracha Tiger Zoo is a zoo in Sri Racha, a city on the outskirts of Pattaya, a seaside city in Chonburi Province, Thailand. It is about 97 km (60 mi) from Bangkok. The zoo claims a population of 200 tigers and around 10,000 crocodiles, the largest such populations in the world.[citation needed] Admission in 2009 (2552) was THB350 for foreigners and THB120 for Thais.
Internet meme
Photographs of a female tiger nursing piglets wrapped in tiger skin, accompanied by a fictitious story about a zoo in California, were actually taken at Sriracha.[1]
Controversy
The Animal Welfare Institute reported in 2004 that the zoo had been using tigers and elephants in circus shows, including tigers leaping through rings of fire, walking across a double tightrope, parading around a ring on hind legs, and riding on horseback.[2] AWI reported "potentially dangerous human-tiger and human-elephant close interaction", "bizarre multi-species enclosures", tigers being struck with steel poles by trainers and implications that tigers were being bred for export to China.[2]
World Animal Protection reported in 2016 that the tigers 'appeared in the poorest condition of all those observed in our research.'[3]
Notes
- ^ snopes.com (1 Jun 2006). "Tiger and Piglets". snopes.com. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
- ^ a b Roberts, Adam M. (Winter 2005). "Too Close for Comfort". AWI Quarterly.
- ^ https://www.worldanimalprotection.org/wildlife-not-entertainers/worlds-cruellest-attractions
External links
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