…And the cheat of the fight
My city [Liverpool] has one of the oldest established Chinese communities in Europe. In fact, the city is twinned with Shanghai. So needless to say, the Chinese lunar New Year celebrations – for The Year of the Tiger – last weekend were of great interest to me. However, I was surprised and somewhat disappointed to see images of performing tigers in news footage of the global celebrations (click here to see what I mean).
Am I the only one who finds the practice of teaching wild animals to perform “tricks,” anachronistic? It makes me a bit sad (on the inside – where it really counts). It just don’t seem like a fair fight somehow.
Happy Year of the Tiger (unless you’re a real tiger of course).
- Cheyelle
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