The Tiger Zoo

If Mr A & I ever had a better idea than going to the SriRacha Tiger Zoo, I dont remember it.

The Tiger Zoo was extrordinarily bizarre. The first ten minutes pretty much summed up the entire head scratching experience. We walked in and first went to the "Happy Family" exhibit. This is where they show how pigs and tigers can live together and ... I dunno. Not feed on the other? So there is a nursery where a tigress and her five little "cubs" (piglets dressed up in ridiculous but precious tiger coats) are in a room together. Next door is a gigantic sow and three piglets and two tiger cubs who are all suckling off the sow. It was just all wrong. Weird.

Anyways, so we move on to the next room, the "Tiger Tunnel", which is one of those windows looking into the habitat exhibts. There are probably seven or so adult/large adolecent tigers living in this habitat. AND PEOPLE! There are three African (?) people just standing in the exhibt holding sticks and wearing tiger print jungle get-ups. Huh?! A people zoo? I stood there blinking for a solid two minutes just trying to figure out what the reason was for these people in the tiger pen. I waved at them, rather embarassed. Were the sticks for protection from the tigers or just part of the theme? Never did figure it out and I left somewhere between offended and dumbfounded.

Next exhibit was more of the same but this time it was a tiger, a pig and a golden retriever. Apparently dogs are also part of this perfectly symbiotic relationship. Word to the wise: pigs cant walk very well on rocks and dogs look gross if their fur gets wet. Wet rocks = not such a great habitat for showing off these animals.

At any rate, this zoo, with its Scorpian Queen, Elephant Show, Amazing Circus, and feed the 10 billion crocodiles with a wooden fishing pole while standing on the jankiest bridge ever constructed, made for quite the Tuesday.
PETA members be damned! I think it was well worth the 300 baht.

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