The zoo responded that the orangutan smoked and threw all the pots to the tourists
Recently, Hefei wildlife park has attracted netizens' attention again after chimpanzees' escape 'kicking. A video shows a chimpanzee 'smoking' in the park. However, the staff said that the two orangutans are not the same. The smoke is given by tourists. Some tourists have low quality and can't keep staring. The animals are in good health.
From the perspective of zoo management, chimpanzee smoking is not funny. It is a direct embodiment of extensive management, but in the response of the staff, the pot was thrown to the tourists.
According to the park, there are tens of thousands of tourists and only a hundred staff every day, which can't be managed at all. Such a self-defense logic can be reluctantly accepted. The real absurdity is to take the quality of tourists as a shield, which clearly shirks its management responsibility.
The zoo itself has a certain public welfare. Some behaviors beyond the rules are staged. Some tourists are not conscious enough. On the one hand, it also shows that there are loopholes in the design and implementation of the rules. The zoo had staged a chimpanzee 'prison break' before. This time, smoking was staged again, which triggered various bad comments from netizens. For example, many tourists said that the protective measures were too simple, which was enough to show that the management norms of the zoo were too extensive. The park's argument that 'smoking a cigarette won't do much. People have been smoking for decades' reflects the numbness and carelessness in animal welfare.
In fact, almost all zoos will encounter similar feeding problems. Not to mention the smoke with potential safety hazards, feeding ordinary food may also cause harm to animals. Before entering the zoo, the zoo should clearly inform that feeding is prohibited, set up clear warning signs and strengthen publicity. We can't let it go because we can't manage it, and use the poor quality of tourists as an excuse.
On the local media in Hefei, we can find many reports of the zoo's tourists throwing and feeding indiscriminately, which shows that this has become a big problem. Has the local zoo upgraded its management means? For example, the Beijing Zoo has jointly inspected and enforced the law with the local urban management department, the park police station and other departments, and incorporated the indiscriminate feeding into the scope of administrative punishment, so as to achieve the effect of warning. In addition, in order to avoid accidental injury caused by feeding, many zoos isolate animals and protect tourists. They all adopt transparent glass barriers or fine iron nets. Hefei wildlife zoo was repeatedly protected by tourists for many times. Why not make complaints about hardware upgrading?
How much traffic you have, you have to invest how much energy. Even if you really can't manage it, upgrade the hardware. If you can't upgrade the hardware, limit the traffic appropriately, or adopt a strict blacklist system to increase the cost of violations. In short, it is not allowed to sell more tickets, resulting in the passenger flow exceeding its management carrying capacity and aggravating the performance of various uncivilized behaviors.
In any case, the method is always more difficult than the difficulty. The funny scene of chimpanzee smoking exposes not only the quality of tourists, but also the management ability. If it is all due to the poor quality of tourists and the transfer of responsibilities from the beginning, there will certainly not be much motivation to strengthen the governance of the park.
(source: Beijing News)