This is the 'Crocoseum' where Steve did his croc feeding shows, and his keepers continue today. If I remember correctly from my visit in December 2007, they start the show with Kockatoos and other free flying birds; then go on to the snakes, and conclude with one of the crocodiles from the pens behind the stadium.
If you are only asking about the snake part, to be honest, nothing. They carry them into the stadium in a casket (seen on a previous photo) and put a few on the lawn but play with one in the water, lifting it up and showing. Fairly pointless indeed, most people are waiting for the crocodile.
thanks its good to hear other animals are used in the show as if it was just snakes im sure it would soon be quite hard to engage the public with such a large arena.
thanks its good to hear other animals are used in the show as if it was just snakes im sure it would soon be quite hard to engage the public with such a large arena.
True, though I'm sure most visitors attend the 'Crocoseum' stadium for the crocodile bit only. But it would have had to be a very short show if they only featured the crocodile feeding (of course the crocs are featured in the end, else people would just leave straight after, missing the birds and the snakes) as people's attention span is limited. Some say attention span is becoming less with all the distractions of modern life, but in his 1975 autobiography 'My Wild Life' Jimmy Chipperfield (circus man and founder of Longleat and several other British safari parks and zoos) noted that in his circus days he tried to ensure that no act was longer than 6 minutes, as it was the longest time people could concentrate, in his opinion. So, regardless of whether it was an exciting lion and tiger bit (for which a high fence had been constructed) or a simple and sweet clown bit, 6 minutes was the max.
Correct, I've seen such footage, but the elephants were only on the pathwalk around the arena and not inside the stadium itself (including at Irwin's memorial) as there is really no space inside the fence for them. The tigers were only taken there when they were cubs as the fence is not high enough; for security reasons they cannot take full-grown tigers in when the stadium is full. Or did they?
