Myself and a friend couldn't get rid of this one and 2 others as they surrounded the car we had to wait for the keepers to move them on
The only thing they were interested in was trying to eat my camera
Myself and a friend couldn't get rid of this one and 2 others as they surrounded the car we had to wait for the keepers to move them on
The only thing they were interested in was trying to eat my camera
I don't know if they are handraised or just become very tame due to the pellet-feeding that is allowed(encouraged as you buy the food). Probably the latter. I am something of a purist and I don't enjoy seeing animals poking their heads into cars with drools of saliva flicking off their tongues. However I am sure that most visitors do!
I've mentioned before that I do think this could be a health risk, particularly to small children who might feed them and then suck their own fingers and ingest animal saliva in the process. There's certainly no way to go to a washroom or tap etc when you are stuck in an animal reserve in a very slow-moving crawl of traffic. What if these antelope carried FSE for example?
I agree with you on that one Pertinax
As I said it was me and a friend if I had got my nephew in the car we would have been carrying a bottle of water and some disinfecant so we could at least wipe his hands, mind you I suppose a lot of people with children don't think about these things
If I had got my nephew in the car we would have been carrying a bottle of water and some disinfecant so we could at least wipe his hands, mind you I suppose a lot of people with children don't think about these things
That's just it. Some people are very careful, others are not. There were a number of antelope at London Zoo (and other places) in the 1970's that were proved to have contracted FSE from being fed concentrated/pelleted foodstuffs in their diet. I'm not saying any at West Midlands have this or any other disease, BUT the potential is there and any direct contact always does carry a risk-look at that E Coli scare at the 'petting farms' last year.
