Okay - I've updated some code and it seems to be working for me in IE now. Can you please reload the first page of this thread and see if it works now?
Aw,cmon Maguari youre living in the dark ages! Lets get up-to-date...please! or does anyone fancy a round of the superlative parlour game "Technophobe Terrace"?-to be discussed in Leipzig at ZooHistorica young fella! Seriously Kiang,what a find..and the way the film looks around the zoo instead of the usual views of cuddly creatures[perhaps they havent got any].Actually it doesnt look THAT bad and its a long time since i saw a decent dog zoo-or was that the restaurant?[bit of a non-p.c. joke there]
I'm no technophobe - just a stick-in-the-mud - I'm so used to IE that every time I try a different browser I get annoyed at what's different within minutes and give up! It is a great video, it's true (and I'm sure no-one would expect PC from yourself, Tim!).
Thanks, Sim, this video is very interesting. I think the evil Dear Leader himself was shown in the beginning of the video. This Zoo looks like an American zoo back in the 1960s, they are very far behind in technology. Too bad all of their technology is going towards nuclear weapons. But then again, as badly as their animals are caged, they probably still treat their animals better than they treat their people! Also, it's not at all surprising that the Zoo is spotlessly clean -- the penalty for littering is probably execution.
Thanks Maguari for the lead to fixing the issue and Sim for sorting it. It was well worth the wait and interesting to see what I'd imagine non of us are likely to see in person. I was waiting for something awful like in some Chinese zoo's but it looked in the most part to be ok, the hoofed stock had decent sized enclosures, and I assume that the big cats did have large outdoor runs, the aquarium looked good too. In the summer it would look very leafy, but it looked so cold for the filming, and those people with posed fake smiles and height of fashion Korean outfits were something to see! One question, where do folks thing they would have got their bigger animals from (I'm talking elephant, hippo, lions and tigers)? Surprised that there was no panda in sight.
Um how do you know what they're saying? I didn't know North Korea had zoos. What are their influences on the zoo community? What are their contributions?
Ok. Do they have any other zoos or just this one? If they're an isolated country, then how do they get their animals?
Earlier in the thread it is mentioned that they got animals from Kuwait. I'm sure they got giant pandas and probably other animals from China which is their main supporter and if they have connections anywhere it is probably with the Chinese. There is some info on Wikipedia on where they got their animals: [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Central_Zoo]Korea Central Zoo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
North Korea isn't isolated, it just doesn't like western countries. The government has strong ties with China and until recently with the former Soviet Union. I would imagine a lot of animals came from those countries. They also have ties to other southeast Asian countries such as Laos and Myanmar.
here's a short blog about a visit to the zoo: North Korean Zoo...yep! | Travel Blog And another youtube video:
So, if I wanted to, I could fly to like China or something like that and go into North Korea to visit the zoo!!
Article about the Pyongyang zoo : North Korea?s New Beautification Project: Pyongyang Zoo - Korea Real Time - WSJ
