Tourists pay to hand-feed world's most ferocious predators including tigers, lions and bears
- Lehe Ledu Wildlife Zoo in Chongqing city is taking bookings from tourists to be driven through the park in a cage
- Live chickens are being used to bait the predators, which so far include Bengal tigers, white tigers and even bears
- Standing inside a wire mesh cage, brave visitors are able to offer food to lions and tigers through a small opening
Tourists
and predators have switched places at a zoo in China, where visitors
are paying to be locked in a cage and stalked by big cats and bears.
Lehe
Ledu Wildlife Zoo in Chongqing city is giving people the chance to get
up close with some of the world's most ferocious animals - who they can
even feed by hand.
Chunks
of fresh meat are tied to the outside of a vehicle, which drives
through the enclosure, in a bid to attract the predators and give
tourists the closest possible dining experience with them - without
becoming dinner themselves.
The zoo is one of a few in the world
which has installed a moving cage to bring visitors as close as possible
to big cats in an open habitat
Standing inside a wire mesh cage, the visitors are able to offer food to lions and tigers through a small opening at the top
A bear at the zoo in China inspects a bright yellow sight-seeing bus as it trundles through the enclosure
Standing
inside a wire mesh cage, the visitors are able to offer food to lions
and tigers through a small opening, and watch as the massive cats leap
onto the vehicle to be fed.
Live
chickens are also being used to bait the predators, which so far
include lions, Bengal tigers and their subspecies, the white tiger, and
bears.
A Bengal tiger lunges at a tourist
vehicle in a bid to grab the meat being offered to him on a stick
through a small window opening
One white tiger springs up onto the
vehicle in front of tourists to reach his food, which has been thrown
from the top of the moving cage
Terrifying
photos show the tigers jumping onto the cages, centimetres away from
clawing an unsuspecting tourist in a park attraction which has already
been described online as 'an accident waiting to happen.'
Speaking to OddityCentral,
zoo spokeswoman Chan Liang said: 'We wanted to give our visitors the
thrill of being stalked and attacked by the big cats but with, of
course, none of the risks.
'The
guests are warned to keep their fingers and hands inside the cage at
all times because a hungry tiger wouldn't know the difference between
them and breakfast.'
When launched in 2015, the attraction was sold out for three months and saw tourists battling to experience being lunch.
Terrifying photos show the tigers jumping onto the cages, centimetres away from a tourist in the park attraction
Two gigantic white tigers feed on meat being thrust at them through the windows of a tourist bus
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