Zoos often have to come up with clever ways to make money and usually that means exploiting the animals they contend to care so much about. But animal rights activists don't see it that way. The zoo says the attraction is fun for both man and beast and is a great way to keep them fit and stimulated. Visitors, pay to play, suit up with gloves and tug on a rope that passes below the cat enclosure where one of the park's great felines has a slab of meat - tied to the rope - squarely in its jaws. Well, believe it or not, this zoo which claims conservation as one of its goals, allows zoo-goers, 8 and up, the opportunity to play "tug-of-war" with one of their big cats. Here, for around $20 you can have what some have called an "Absolutely amazing experience."
In this edition of " Zoos Behaving Badly," we take a trip across the pond to the Dartmoor Zoo in the United Kingdom. The Dartmoor is the English zoo off which the Matt Damon film "We Bought A Zoo" was based.
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