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11/24/12
Tiger Fishing
Filed under: General
Posted by: @ 5:17 pm

While most indulged in eating a big roasted bird on
Thanksgiving, we fed ours to live Tigers.

Only in China.

At the Yunnan Safari Park, right outside of Kunming, you can
try your luck reeling in a big one.

For 15 RMB (about two bucks) you can get a fishing pole baited
with raw chicken, then  dangle the dang
thing a large cat’s cage.

Jeff will forever be telling the story about “the big one that got away”.

The bait fell off my pole like a badly hooked worm. The big cats didn’t seem to mind.

The zoo is a cross between the San Diego Zoo and a PETA
nightmare. Animals run wild, and guests walk or ride the zoo-choo train through
their stomping grounds.

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Spitting llamas, yaks, weird deer, ornery ostriches other
creatures that unsupervised school kids like to hassle.

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Here’s a hoard of unruly school children, which were more terrifying
than the animals.

The lions and other big cats run wild on a side of a hill
(this is closed off to the public). You have a choice of walking on a bridge
above them, or through a secure caged path that snorkels through their abode. The entrance of the park gives you an idea of how hilly the grounds are.

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But lions are lazy creatures. They weren’t interested in Jeff’s
lure of chicken legs until the host of Deadliest Catch came out with a live
chicken strung on a pole.

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The man cooo-ed to arouse the cats, then  dangled the flapping bird over the cage. One
the cat came down the side of the hill, Little Chicken was reeled into safety and
the lion got to snatch Jeff’s chicken meat.

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I felt bad for the bird, even though its life was spared. I
am sure it suffers from PTSD and gets freaked out at parties when he hears a
loud noise.

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You could also feed live bears wieners.

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The park was amazing. My favorite part was the baby animal area.
A little of white tiger cubs were so cute, I wanted to play with them.

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Which you can, in China.

There was also a peacock field filled with several hundred
technicolor birds.

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There was even a white peacock.

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The park did have safe creatures to feed, such as the Coy
fish.

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It’s amazing what nice pictures you can take at a zoo when
the animals aren’t in cages.

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Again, being the only white creatures at the zoo (except for
the peacock), Jeff and I got the most stares.


But of all the creatures there, this is what Jeff takes a picture of.


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Rhino Dung.




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One Response to “Tiger Fishing”

  1. Anonymous Says:
    i so love exploring life with you

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