"There were at least 70 of them in the lion house," a netizen posted an image of the scene on Weibo yesterday, which attracted a lot of attention.

A tiger bites a plastic wrapper of ham sausage in the Liger exhibition area of Shanghai Wild Animal Park on the eve of China's National Day. The park said that uncivilized behavior of feeding and throwing rubbish at the animals occurred from time to time.

The Shanghai Wild Animal Park has set up a fee-paying "interaction area" to allow visitors to have close contact with the animals, effectively avoiding the occurrence of "garbage harassing animals".

Eastday reporter Zhou Feng reported on October 2: On the first day of the National Day, two large zoos in Shanghai welcomed a large number of visitors as scheduled. The Shanghai Zoo saw 50,000 visitors a day, while the wildlife park saw more than 30,000. However, a picture of a lion uploaded by a netizen has raised the alarm amid the busy viewing of the zoo, and aroused strong attention from many netizens. "Many animal rooms in Shanghai Zoo are littered with plastic water bottles thrown by visitors. There are at least 70 of them in the lion room," the post said.

The Shanghai Zoo confirmed the information. A man surnamed Ye, who is in charge of the zoo's office, told Eastday.com that it is inevitable that some uncivilized behavior will occur in the zoo during the large number of visitors during the National Day holiday. But with no law enforcement power and no legal basis for fines, the park has had to increase the frequency of garbage removal and the intensity of zookeepers' inspections.

"Yesterday the lion hall inside the plastic bottles, if not a hundred, at least there are dozens of", Mr. Ye said, because of the cleaning of the animal activity area, the need for keepers to first introduce animals into the cage before can start, so the basic cleaning a day, easy to accumulate uncivilized tourists throw down food and garbage. Shanghai Zoo hopes to appeal to the media that animals are friends of human beings and hope that visitors will show mercy.

When Eastday reporters visited the Shanghai Wild Animal Park on the eve of the National Day, they saw that the park has set up a charging "interactive area" to allow visitors to have close contact with animals, effectively avoiding the occurrence of "garbage harassing animals". But the reporter also noticed that the same day, the lion tiger exhibition area, there is still a tiger mouth bite a ham sausage plastic packaging.

Years ago, giraffes in Shanghai Zoo died after eating plastic bags thrown by tourists, which sounded the alarm for wildlife parks in the same city. Mr. Ji, planning department of Shanghai Wildlife Park, told EastDay reporter that the animal exhibition area has been specially modified for this purpose, the bus Windows into the area have been closed, and the barbed wire of the feeding truck has been increased. After the renovation of each animal exhibition area, the actual distance between people and animals has increased.

But because there is no law enforcement power, Shanghai Wild Animal Park can only strengthen the on-site cleaning and dissuasion efforts. "We haven't had more than 70 plastic bottles left by lions, but uncivilized phenomena still occur from time to time," Ji said. "I hope that all sectors of society and the media can promote more publicity and give animals a clean environment."

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