As if the small size (and lack of air and sunshine) are not bad enough, the solid concrete is just awful. I do not understand why the management would think that people enjoy seeing artificial cement tiger tanks like this?
To answer your question:Maybe because they do like that..It is an easy zoo trick, first used in Us-Zoos and now it t is everywhere:as more beautyful is the surrounding area from the point of view of the common people, there more it is a better home for the animals.
It would be an interesting experiment, if some ZooChatter had the time, to visit on a busy day and spend three hours just standing by this exhibit and listening to the comments of other visitors. I am still not convinced the public actually likes this.
It would be an interesting experiment, if some ZooChatter had the time, to visit on a busy day and spend three hours just standing by this exhibit and listening to the comments of other visitors. I am still not convinced the public actually likes this.
I was at this facility with a zoo conference several years ago and nobody liked this exhibit, but of course those were zoo people with pretty high standards.
It is only here for Las Vegas type appeal and has no connection whatsoever to anything else in this mediocre aquarium. The aquarium is primarily there to attract people to the restaurant so the whole enterprise is a poor example of the conservation and education mission of modern zoos and aquariums.
I am sure the public has a mix of opinions about this. Many will stand there aghast. Some won't care because they (or their child) is getting a good look at a tiger up close.
I feel that this would be a really cool hot tub area in some up-scale themed spa. Apparently the visitors are on the wrong side of the glass.
@snowleopard: for that, they'd need an albino komodo dragon.^^ I've seen photos of yellowish komodo dragons on Flores; maybe that's be a start. Or they should put in albino gators or some fancy colour morph retic pythons.
One or another: I like AD's spa suggestion the best.
