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VISITORS TO A zoo in southeastern China killed one kangaroo and injured another by throwing bricks at them in an attempt to get a reaction from the big marsupials, state media reports.
A 12-year-old female kangaroo suffered a severely injured foot when it was struck by bricks and concrete chunks on 28 February at the Fuzhou Zoo in Fujian province, China Central Television reported.
The kangaroo died days later and an examination by a veterinarian revealed that the cause of death was likely a ruptured kidney caused by being struck by the projectiles.
A few weeks later, a five-year-old male kangaroo at the same zoo was slightly injured in a similar way, said the report posted on the network’s website late last night.
The report included pictures of the first kangaroo’s smashed and nearly severed foot, and of the animal receiving treatment via intravenous drip before it died.
Visitors to the zoo were known to try to provoke the Australia marsupials to get them to display their signature hopping mode of locomotion using their powerful hind legs.
The report did not mention whether anyone was punished over the matter, but it said the dead female would be stuffed and put on display and the zoo would look to install security cameras to deter visitors from harming animals in future.
China’s lightly regulated zoos and wildlife parks often make news for the wrong reasons, typically involving abysmal conditions in which animals are kept or insensitive actions by visitors in a country where the notion of animal rights is not deeply ingrained.
Among recent examples, horrified visitors to an animal park in eastern China’s Jiangsu province last June watched as tigers killed a donkey that was released into their enclosure by investors angry over a business dispute related to the zoo, according to media reports.
A few months earlier, a zoo visitor died after he was mauled by tigers whose enclosure he entered in the city of Ningbo, south of Shanghai.
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I think another contract by an outsourced development team, contracted by another provider, who can consult on the other contractors contract is required. Or has ESB not done this? Recognition of the Union and pay them fairly. Outsourcing is a race to the bottom by corporations. Keep it cheap for technicians while management lick the cream off the profit’s.
@Twitruser2021: the ESB is a semi-state I’m afraid – whatever profits are made don’t go to “management”.
Existing ESB unions are poison as it is, milking the lot of us. No surprise they don’t want to recognise a new one.
@Pseud O’Nym: = naivety at its greatest
@Twitruser2021: bull one of the best paid employees in the country. Greed that is all it is. Unions = dysfunctional
@john s: get a job with them so!
What the ESB are saying is the will only negotiate with “Approved Unions “ those who the company deem appropriate . The day the employer tells the worker who can and Cannot represent them is a bad day for workers everywhere .
@Airwave81: not true, you will fine that it is the original union that won’t let employers recognise competion unions.
Why don’t the company engage in talks with the union? The union is willing to meet them on the matter but they refuse!
@Bull McCabe: I would guess the other unions don’t want a new union infringing on their patch. The official unions will want to be the only workers representatives. Management would be the same, It be a nightmare if dozens of unions popped up and they all want to negotiate separately.
Power to the people
This is a union battle, does ictu recognise this union. I knew sliptru would be involved. I hope the ESB go to the wrc. They have significant members and should be recognised..
Effectively what they are saying is we have no way to influence this union so we won’t speak to them.
@Ciaran Burke: no what they are saying is the other unions won’t let them talk to them
One of the best paid group of employees in the country with pensions to match going on strike,many large european economies have better systems in place with one union representing all company employees, multible unions representing a few thousand employees is ridiculous that no employer wants to have to deal with.
@Richard Mccarthy: The Esb don’t pay the Electrical rate so no they are not the best paid in the country .
@Terry O Shea: bull, these are probably getting more and they have a big pension
have your say