Hey Lion!!! WAKE UP!!!!!

14-06-2008

Try visiting an Asian Zoo (esp one with lots of Chinese visitors. I'm not being racist, i'm Chinese myself!) and you'd think the visitors were walking down a buffet line. They'd trade stories on which animals on display they've eaten and how best to cook them. Its true though, traditional Chinese folks eat just about anything.

14-06-2008

@Zooish: Haven't You heard that old South Chinese saying? "You can eat everything as long as it's belly is pointed to the ground (and not to the sky)."

09-07-2008

Ugh, I'm always annoyed by some of the idiots that show up at Marineland. Luckily there's plenty of staff around to keep them out of serious trouble XD People always leaning over to touch something that swims by, or banging on the glass, or generally being idiotic. Same with the Toronto Zoo. Some people have no respect for animals anywhere and it disgusts me. Of course, sometimes they're just ignorant, but I don't think that's an excuse. One lady at Sea World Orlando my friend told me about was explaining to her kids about the "stingrays" - who were really walruses.

11-07-2008

Marinelander:I understand where your coming from.There were people throwing rocks at Ikaika (an orca) just so he would start sqeualing for help.Terrible.I told a cove worked who had them evacuated.

I also have something that may intrest Ungulate if he's ever on here.The last time i was at the zoo with my class.Me and my friends were going to see the river hippos and to our disgust,people were throwing sticks at them to make them open there mouths.Since there was no teacher or parent supervision that day (the teacher just said to group up and meet at the entrance at around 5:30) we gave them a piece of our minds.I swear,we never told someone off so bad in our lives!And these people were at least 16!It actually came to the point of the hippos getting so annoyed that they came and tried to find a safety blanket in us.We quickly finished our little "speech" and raced up to the elephant "balcony to tell an elphant keeper to call security.He quickly did and they were ejected from the zoo.I actually think i saw the hippo smile as they walked away!Sorry for being so in-depth,i just thought you should know the whole story.

12-07-2008

This reminds me of the time I told off a woman at Toronto Zoo who was trying to hand feed one of the GRIZZLY BEARS a sandwich. She got offended She had to be at least 40, old enough to know better!

14-08-2008

WHAT? What kind of retard does that to a whale? That's awful. I hope they don't have any pets.

14-08-2008

Nice use of 'retard' as a term of abuse. You can do better than that, Marinelander, I'm sure.

14-08-2008

Some guys are just empty, and cruel lets stick some in a maze and try to see if they can get out, making them run on a wheel would be pretty amusing and then they'll get stuff thrown at them, I could go further in fact people in my school often have Your Momma battles,

14-08-2008

That why we must protect grizzlies, sharks and other large predators!

14-08-2008

you'd think they'd know.I've seen alot more then the hippo situation though at tornto zoo like ppeople standing next to the fur seal pool yelling "look at the otters!" and then there was the time someone asked me why the gorilla's were so tiny at the mandrill viewing area.I mean please come on!!!!!!!!!

28-08-2008

Alot of people at Toronto Zoo also like to go to the mandrill viewing window and tap on it while the females eat right next to it.The dominant male usually ends up egging the reaction the people want on by coming over and snarling.

01-09-2008

Just today I was at the very small Peoria Zoo (I'll review sometime this week). A couple about my age (approaching thirty) and their little girl walked right up to plexiglass for the tiger exhibit. The father started beating on it like a policeman banging on a criminal's door on television. It was extraordinarily loud. For nearly two minutes straight, the entire family was screaming at the top of their lungs "HERE KITTY KITTY." Those poor tigers must have been used to it. They didn't stir from where they were lounging.

They finally stopped when I snuck up right behind them and shouted "HEEEEERE, MORON FAMILY!"

I also see it quite a bit with the free-ranging peafowl 90% of zoos seem to think are a good idea. Those poor things get chased all over the place. I don't know why they roam about, anyway.

01-09-2008

What did the people do when you yelled that?Im thinking they spazzed

01-09-2008

They jumped. They didn't say anything to me. They just quietly got away from the tigers. I'm a large man.

01-09-2008

Boy, would I have loved to see that

Nicely done monomach

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