Party Taman Safari justify video circulating on social media related visitors who can photograph with a lion. According to him, the kind of wild animals at the Safari Park was not sedated, but is sleeping.
“We never had to anesthetize, the first which we describe,” said Public Relations Taman Safari Bogor, Julius when contacted merdeka.com, Jakarta, Wednesday (6/4).
Second, Julius explains, lion invited photographs with visitors whose age adults are not lions and fierce. But the lion cubs sleeping.
“We do not drugging, the photograph visitors with lion cubs, baseball may be the great lion. Children lion was also asleep,” he said.
According to him, children lions have a long sleep time, more than 14 hours. He said, the parent does not want to take care of children lion.
“Then we treat the man,” he continued.
To be able to take pictures with lion cubs sleeping, visitors have to spend Rp 20 thousands of pictures. The money is earmarked to buy feed animals living in Taman Safari.
“It is not commercialized, visitors themselves who want to take pictures, we baseball force. It also includes performances show at the Safari Park, we baseball never forced wildlife out kemampuanm, “he said.
previously, circulated a video of a lion that is being photographed by male visitors, with the caption:
” This place is Taman Safari Indonesia, Bogor: Sleepy lion being forced to get up to take pictures with visitors. the lion is looking drugged? Shame on You Taman Safari Indonesia. ”
” lion being sleepy forced to get up to take pictures with visitors. this lion looks like drugged. is this what ways Wildlife Safari Indonesia earn money? Cruel. ”
However, in a duration of 57 seconds video uploaded in facebook account Scorpion Wildlife Trade Monitoring the king of the jungle that looks sleepy like people being drugged.
