Beijing Wildlife Park or 北京野生动物园 is located in south part of Beijing. You can go there by taking Subway line 4 stop at TianGongYuan station and your journey have not stop here yet, you must take public bus number 556 or 377 pass 26 stops or you can take unlicensed taxi will charge you between 30 to 50 Yuan.
Finally, I arrived at front gate, I am so exited. I hoped I will find funny looking animals in this park. The ticket price is 50 Yuan per person if hold student identity card and 80 Yuan per person for adult. I think, children with 1.2 m height, elderly and disable people are free of charge. From the main entrance door, we can take electric car or by foot. The electric car costs you 200 Yuan per hour includes driver and guide explains about the park. I prefer ed by foot because I do not want to miss in-house animals.
The first in-house animal that makes me amazed is Golden Monkey.
Golden Monkey is one of extinction animal and very rare existence in another zoo.
Golden Monkey is one of endengared animal
A wide range types of animals in this park. But things make me sad is their cages are not decent, dirty and infrequently clean by the officer. For animal lovers must be very regret this. Even the drinking water was dirty. I looked one of sick female lion, a lot of her furs are loosen.
There is also an animal performance show. After saw some bad condition of animals, I felt something odd about this show. Well, it is true. in the show, there was four bears with neck tied up. Base on my experiences, I never sees animal performance with neck tied up. In Indonesia, all animals are free to move around. Once before I saw bear performance riding a bike. when the instructor told the bear to ride a bike, the bear did want to, but with patient the instructor waited and feed the bear until he wants to ride the bike. In contrast, I saw different scene here, I watched the show, the bear was kicked because he not obeyed the instructor and the feed him. My heart was hurt to see that kind of attitude. Maybe I have visited nice and good looking zoo in Singapore and Perth, the instructors have decent education and qualified to train and work with animal, But I do not know in China, do they have standard and qualified to train animals ?
After the performance show, I walked to bird cages. I saw unique birds feed with decent good food. But after walked for a while, there was a small yellow bird squeezed behind the wire’s cage and it looked like had dead long enough, but no one cared, I am so pity.
My hoped was to see funny animals and having fun in this park had gone. I went back with hurt and pity with bunch of questions. Why they do this to the animals? Where is Animal Protection Rights, Animal Welfare ? Why the do not fix this problem ? Would these animals survive in such extreme conditions ?
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