Dicks at safari parks...?

[QueenArseClangers]

At a lovely kid's party at the local safari park we got chatting to the lady giving the minibus tour.
Apparently, virtually every day, the keepers have to stop/tell people to not open their windows or get out in the enclosures

Are people really this ignorant? The staff said they often have to convince visitors that getting out of their vehicles to pet/feed the animals is not a good idea and the lions are NOT tame like domestic cats!
Aibu to be rather gobsmacked at the frequency of dickish behaviour like this?

[2kids2dogsnosense]

Those lions went from lying on their backs with their legs in the air to alert and hungry in a split second.

I've seen that happen. They're snoring with their paws in the air one moment - the next, you can practically hear the snap of tawny eyelids as the go to full pounce-alert in a fraction of a second.

Most people have no idea how rapidly wild animals can react - and how incredibly powerful they are, too.

[TheWoodlander]

Yes - and you won't even see them coming. They are stalkers by nature - probably the ones you're looking at aren't the ones that'll be in your window in a microsecond. I can't believe people are so stupid.

[QueenArseClangers]

Don't which is worse: Tapir Todger or Echidna Widge...

[ThisisMrsNicolaHicklin]

I bet it was an emu. They are complete bastards for eating crisps. I spent 6 months in Australia and every time I sat down at a picnic table with a packet of crisps up popped a bastard emu.

[ConferencePear]

It's not just safari parks though is it ? There are just loads of people who think the rules don't apply to them in lots of ways.

[Madeyemoodysmum]

Tube

[BoffinMum]

I probably do need help, yes. I have not been the sane since I saw one for the first time last year.

[PeggySueOooOo]

I saw a lioness with her head completely in some stupid persons car who had their windows down. The rangers chased it away but the lioness had something black in its mouth (I assumed it was a shoe).

[FurryLittleTwerp]

The rangers chased it away but the lioness had something black in its mouth (I assumed it was a shoe).

It might've been a wig

[CurbsideProphet]

It's not really surprising. Zoos and safari parks are "a family day out", so people lose sight of the fact that these are real animals. Also, many people are complete eejits.

[Temporaryname137]

I read this as "ducks at safari parks" and was wondering what the problem was.

Nothing that people can do in relation to animals surprises me. But it does enrage me. Some people are utterly, mind-blowingly, infuriatingly fucking STUPID and SELFISH in how they behave. And it's the animals who pay the price. One of the news stories that made me the most angry was the story about the poor lions in the zoo in China who got snowballs thrown in their faces - you can see how distressed and upset they are. What sort of a cowardly cunt does that? I'd like to see you get in the (horrible, far too small, traumatising) pit with them and do that. Oh wait, that would result in the lions being shot.

And as for the utter cunts who pay to go and shoot animals for fun and then drape themselves all over the corpses for facebook...

Sorry, got on a rant there. But sometimes, I really hate people, and when it comes to idiocy like this, it is definitely one of those times!

[Temporaryname137]

This, on the other hand, made me actually LOL:

bold I bet it was an emu. They are complete bastards for eating crisps. I spent 6 months in Australia and every time I sat down at a picnic table with a packet of crisps up popped a bastard emu.

[Cocolepew]

Some if these stories are
I saw a video the other day of a bloke in China climbing into a panda enclosure. They ended up wrestling

[Cocolepew]

Apparently he did it to impress two women.

[SnakeWitch]

Just for those who are disappointed, I saw an 'excited' monkey at Paignton Zoo a few weeks ago. DH and I were sniggering like the grown ups we are and I briefly wondered if I should complain . When we went years ago the lions were shagging too.

[mumonashoestring]

Last time we went to Woburn we were sat in my uncle's car in the bear enclosure watching the car in front stop to get a better view. She got a better view alright - didn't notice the young bear climbing onto the back of her car, then I assume was too worried about hurting it to drive off as it worked it's way round the car clawing the paintwork all the way, and ripped her wing mirror off. Obviously we were very sympathetic. I'll have to see if I can get the video to upload to YouTube

[NightNightBadger19962]

The person behind us in the wolf enclosure at Longleat bumped into our car, and then jumped out to swap details until we gestured frantically that we would really be happy to get out of the enclosure first.

[2kids2dogsnosense]

Hell's Bloody Bells QueenArse - it's got BRANCHES!


(And doesn't he look insufferably pleased with himself, too . . . . ?)

[2kids2dogsnosense]

TemporaryName*

Is that what led to this?

www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/australia-launched-an-offensive-against-emus-in-the-1930s/news-story/f93ac1be047c30ce743ebe10107bf1a7

[Sweetpotatoaddict]

I was in a national park in Africa parked up at a watering hole looking at 6 amazing little lion cubs, waiting for mummy lion to return. The Bloke in the 4wd behind us gets out, and goes into the back of his truck spending about 5 minutes rummaging about for something. Couldn't believe my eyes, thought I might be about to witness my first kill.

[VforVienetta]

Imagine the excitement for the bored, cooped-up, fed on boring butchered meat, but ever hopeful apex predators - fiiiinally one of those tasty looking prey animals gets out of its box-on-wheels, wouldn't you be there in a split second too?

Now imagine the crushing disappointment when the bloody screws zookeepers turn up and scupper your chance of a fresh meal.
Poor sad lions.
Bet they must get depressed.....

[HarryPottersMagicWand]

Am I the only one who knew the title of the thread was referring to idiot people not animals knobs?

People have a 'it won't happen to me attitude' I think. Just shows them to be the dicks they are though.

We went to the zoo (normal one) on Sunday and it had poisonous dart frogs. Obviously you can't touch them but part of me wanted to, just to see what would happen. I remember thinking "what the fuck is wrong with you, you idiot, what do you think would happen" but the thought was there. Maybe that's what these people do.

[FurryLittleTwerp]

Imagine the excitement for the bored, cooped-up, fed on boring butchered meat, but ever hopeful apex predators - fiiiinally one of those tasty looking prey animals gets out of its box-on-wheels, wouldn't you be there in a split second too?

Now imagine the crushing disappointment when the bloody screws zookeepers turn up and scupper your chance of a fresh meal.

Absolutely Vfor

Having seen my own pet cats behaving like opportunistic little monsters, it's a wonder anyone dares even open their window a crack!

[limitedperiodonly]

At London Zoo someone was taunting a monkey and he swung on a branch and let fly a stream of well-aimed piss at the idiot's face. It was balletic. That monkey must do that all the time and I don't blame him a bit, even though I got a bit splashed.