https://www.scmp.com/rss/323121/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com If there were any doubt that marine-mammal parks exist solely to entertain humans and not to serve any educational or environmental benefit, a video that recently went viral on Douyin cleared that up. In the since-deleted clip, a worker at Sun Asia Ocean World in Dalian is shown smearing lipstick around the mouth of a beluga whale before “dancing” with the animal in the water. Stupid stunts like this make it clear that these parks view the animals they hold captive as nothing more than props to... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/china/article/2151458/theres-nothing-cute-about-whale-wearing-lipstick-or?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/china/article/2151458/theres-nothing-cute-about-whale-wearing-lipstick-or?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Jun 2018 05:02:41 +0000 Hong Kong is known for its business acumen and progressive ideas. It is particularly odd, then, that city officials continue to support one business model that is as antiquated as it is untenable: displaying animals in zoos. The Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens today has more than 300 animals jammed into only 40 enclosures. Intelligent and sensitive primates such as orangutans are held in barren, decrepit cages. Flamingos are packed together so tightly that they can scarcely... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1999503/hong-kong-zoo-must-be-shut-down-world-city-live-its-name?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1999503/hong-kong-zoo-must-be-shut-down-world-city-live-its-name?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 07 Aug 2016 01:33:03 +0000