Apropos of nothing: I woke up sometime last night, mildly feverish, with the thought that the phrase “too good to be true” ought to have a reverse of “too true to be good.” I just wanted to remember that.
Anyway, graham sends word of what might just be the worst zoo in the universe, and not just because the headline likens the way they raise tigers to the way farmers raise battery hens (aside, and possibly related to the neverending debate over the good-idea-ness of eliminating batter cages, is it possible that the concept has sufficently permeated mass culture for battery cages to be the new black?)
We’re talking live (assisted) slaughter of cattle by tigers, monkeys riding camels, and bears riding bicycles on high wires. I know, I know, it’s all an attempt to recreate the animals’ natural habitat, but in this zoo, the bears ride their bikes on the high wire without a safety net, which they never do in the wild.
Incidentally, the zoo is in China, and as it’s possible that China will be moving to lift the ban on the sale of tiger products, this zoo is allegedly planning for the future with a lot of big freezers to stock up on inventory for the big eventual payday.
