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The lions are fenced behind very large open enclosures. A class of elementary students was visiting and as they walked by a few of the lions were pacing the fence, following them. The teacher had one kid drop back and walk more slowing, pretending to limp. That’s when the lions dropped back to pace the one kid, ignoring the rest of the class. I guess it made quite an impression.
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Similar “demonstration” with a polar bear and a baby seal hat.
[QUOTE=Ferret Herder]
Similar “demonstration” with a polar bear and a baby seal hat.
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Heh. Take off the hat, dumbass.
I love it.
So what… did they just type “import bunny”?
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[QUOTE=Ferret Herder]
Similar “demonstration” with a polar bear and a baby seal hat.
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Oh, there’s no need to wear a hat. Some years ago I watched a National Geographic special in the polar bears of Churchill, Manitoba. At one point the crew dropped a bear-proof cage on the ice, inserted a still photographer, then backed off a half mile to shoot what happened on 16mm. Several bears ambled over and started swatting at the cage, biting the bars, and trying to reach between them. There was a long telephoto lens on the movie camera so the view was pretty good and they were synchronizing the film with still shots inside the cage.
Then they drove back to the cage scaring the bears off, and swapped photographers so we could get some movies from inside the cage, interspersed with an interview with the still photographer. He was pretty shaken. “They’re smart,” he said, “They’re patient, and they want you.”
[QUOTE=DesertDog]
“They’re smart,” he said, “They’re patient, and they want you.”
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I have seen the above mention grizzlies chewing at the screws on the sill that holds the plexiglas on their exhibit. If they had a phillips screwdriver and thumbs, they’d be out of there. 
Hey, my kids eat chicken and cow in front of snakes!
Millhouse Vanhouton (while inside Lumpy, the school snake): Hey! There’s a rabbit in here!
the cougars at the philly zoo become very, very, extremely, intent when a kidlet in a stroller goes by. it is amazing, and it was a bit unexpected.
they have the faux rock wall ledge thing that the cat can lounge on and look down at the visitors through the lovely thick plexi. when a stoller appears the lounging cat becomes tightly bundled cat of intensity, anticipating the nice visitor meal on wheels.
the male tiger is very fierce about his plexi. when he is out there is a rope line so visitors stay about 3ish feet away from the plexi. of course wee kidlets just walk under the rope. the tiger hits that plexi at top speed, KA-BAM!!! kidlet and adult scream like a young girl wearing a seal hat.
[QUOTE=Ferret Herder]
Similar “demonstration” with a polar bear and a baby seal hat.
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If she’s genuinely scared, why doesn’t she just take it off?
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit]
If she’s genuinely scared, why doesn’t she just take it off?
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I think it’s staged.
Sometime polar bears don’t play around. - Warning video involves screaming woman at zoo who gets way too close close to cage and is caught by polar bear.
[QUOTE=Neidhart]
And now for something completely different!
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Made me laugh, anyway.
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I think it’s staged.
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Yeah, I’m sure it’s for a game show or something - it might or might not be a genuine reaction on the part of the woman, but we know it is on the part of the bear!
Here’s a little bit on China zoos. I’m sure it will piss a number of people off to read this. Who here heard of fishing for bears with chickens before now?
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I think it’s staged.
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Yeah, but she looked really scared. The way she was trembling and all afterwards made me think that she really didn’t like being stalked–if that was the case, she could have just jettisoned the hat.
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit]
Yeah, but she looked really scared.
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Nno one else looks frightened, or comes to her assistance. They are busy video taping the bear, like they knew it would happen. The guy she hides behind doesn’t react to her.