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Brick-throwing Chinese zoo-goers kill a kangaroo and injure another

The report did not mention whether anyone was punished over the matter.

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.

© AFP 2018 

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    Mute Damian O'Brien
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    Oct 8th 2013, 2:28 PM

    What is a theoretical physicist specialising in string theory to do?

    Poor Sheldon Cooper misses out again. Bazinga!

    Well done to Englert and Higgs. Thanks to one of my daughters I have an interest in all of this. (Still don’t really understand it mind you)

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    Oct 8th 2013, 3:00 PM

    You see Higgs isn’t just a theoretical physicist. He worked in the field.

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    Oct 8th 2013, 2:13 PM

    Paarrr-tay at Higgs gaff!

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    Mute Brian Foley
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    Oct 8th 2013, 2:15 PM

    Sheldon must be gutted!

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    Oct 8th 2013, 2:26 PM

    I was just going to say that lol poor Sheldon

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    Oct 8th 2013, 2:30 PM

    And yet I’m still only getting 3mb broadband

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    Oct 8th 2013, 2:57 PM

    Its 2mb faster then mine

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    Oct 8th 2013, 2:27 PM

    Deadly! Seeing Higg at the announcement in CERN last year that they had found the God particle almost 50 years after he made the proposal was a great moment.

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    Oct 8th 2013, 3:07 PM

    Higgs, Higgs,….Hurrah! :I

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    Oct 8th 2013, 2:14 PM

    Well done great discovery. Delighted for them.

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    Oct 8th 2013, 4:09 PM

    Great to see both of them live long enough to see their theory proven, and they fully deserve the Nobel prize.

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    Oct 8th 2013, 4:20 PM

    Good job they did love long enough, because they don’t award them posthumously. Plenty of geniuses missed out on a Nobel prize by dying too soon.

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    Oct 8th 2013, 4:20 PM

    *live

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    Oct 8th 2013, 9:59 PM

    I dont know what a tracker morgage is ?

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    Oct 8th 2013, 6:40 PM

    Congratulations to Peter Higgs.

    But what if the speed of light varies through

    time and space? What if natural constants aren’t

    that constant?

    That would maybe indicate that consciousness has

    existed since the beginning of the universe, and

    that the universe is much larger than we

    imagine.

    Interested? Then read my philosophical

    multiverse theory.

    http://crestroyertheory.com/the-theory/

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    Oct 8th 2013, 11:39 PM

    Proven? more holes then a tea bag if you ask me. The Standard Model is as much a religious belief as Christianity is.

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    Oct 8th 2013, 7:14 PM

    I wonder why it took 50 years to confirm their theory?

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