Many
of the animals here are former illegal house pets that are given to the
zoo after outgrowing their homes. Image by Zoo De Lujan
With the weather getting warmer, it’s time to get back outside and
reconnect with the wildlife—and no place will let you get closer to the
wildest of wild things than Lujan Zoo in Argentina. Located just outside
Buenos Aires, Lujan Zoo provides zoogoers the opportunity to bottle
feed a bear, cuddle a tiger, or rub noses with a lion, and, if these
pictures are accurate, walk away un-mauled. While many visitors assert
the animals
are clearly drugged, the zoo
insists
the tameness is entirely natural, a product of raising each cub from
birth and teaching them to be calm, permissive, and uninterested in
eating humans. Since opening in 1994, there have been no reports of
unexpected predation, but whether that perfect record is due to good
training, luck, or bribery of authorities is hotly debated. Check out
this extreme petting zoo below, and remember, the Lujan Zoo is one of
the only places in the world where you can pet wild animals, an
extremely dangerous activity that you should not take lightly and should
never try outside the confines of such facilities.
The zoo says that, in addition to training, keeping the animals constantly fed helps to maintain calm passivity. Image by
Zoo De Lujan Con Las Superguias
Read more:
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/go-cheek-to-whisker-at-argentinas-lujan-zoo/
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