Comments on: Most Of Shenzhen Zoo’s Crocodiles Have Been Killed By Visitors

By: The Good Doctor

The Good Doctor — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 06:50:05 +0000

there’s actually nothing in the story that confirms how the crocodiles died. and no matter how bad the behavior is by visitors to the zoo, the real blame lies with the zoos. it’s their job to educate the public on how to treat the animals. it’s their job to protect the animals from harm. if the animals died as was reported, than this is blatant negligence on the part of the zookeepers. if nine crocs died, that wasn’t something that happened in a moment. if they died by being pelted by rocks and trash, or consuming the trash, then this is 100% the fault of the zoo.

and if a zoo doesn’t have the resources to protect the animals, then don’t keep the animals. it’s your job to care for the animals. that’s it.

you can blame chinese people and chinese culture all you want, but the fact is the fault lies almost exclusively with the zoos.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:40:12 +0000

This is such a shame that they can’t even have a zoo without ruining it. But then again, if they can’t respect one another as humans, how are they to respect animals?

By: Mano

Mano — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:52:53 +0000

I got an idea, take all the crocs and pandas and poor tigers out and populate the zoos with lao wai. The Chinese love to stare at us so much anyway might as well make money out of it. “Look mommy! Black!”

By: Ian G

Ian G — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:31:05 +0000

They almost got that scenario at the GZ zoo in the dinosaur trail. I never saw anyone lobbing yonnies at the biped beasts or throwing rocks/goobers/litter at the dinosaur models either but I was distracted, trying to keep all the shanzai fog off my camera.

By: Amanda R.

Amanda R. — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:08:15 +0000

That is just deplorable. Changsha just opened a brand new, fabulous zoo last year (I went 3 times I was so impressed with it). I’m interested to go back this spring and see if it has been kept up. But even last year, the worst thing about the zoo was the litter from the Chinese patrons. The staff just couldn’t keep up with it. It’s really terrible the way the people here have no respect for the environment or fellow living creatures.

By: Six

Six — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:31:14 +0000

Whats most noticeable about this story: the culture that says to Chinese its ok to abuse animals, and the Chinese tendency to do/say nothing when they witness something wrong happening. Plus the fact that this happened over time so when they zookeepers finally got around to cleaning the area and checking if the animals were still alive it was too late.

Their procedures for taking care of their animals must really suck.

By: terroir

terroir — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:26:15 +0000

Once all the crocs have died (it’ll happen), here’s an idea:

clear out all the animals from all of the pens in the zoo. Then, populate the zoo with somewhat lifelife animatronic robots that resemble real life animals. Whenever they are hit by a object from a zoo patron, their eyeballs light up and their head spins around and plays “La Cucaracha”.

As they say: WIN-WIN.