Zoos offering adult-oriented events for survival

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RMGTTF at 11:52 AM JST - 7th July

Zoos offering adult-oriented events

This has a name " zoophilia "
Altria at 11:54 AM JST - 7th July

What to do if you're attacked from the rear?
USARonin at 11:56 AM JST - 7th July

Altria, as Bill Clinton often advised, "Just try to relax and enjoy it."

USAR
electric2004 at 12:47 PM JST - 7th July

I wonder if these adult oriented programs really help? Thinking of the Pandas which also don't wont to reproduce as hoped.
magpie at 01:18 PM JST - 7th July

Forgive me for thinking the perverted (this is Japan!). looking at the headline i was thinking, wow a fuzoku -zoo, a night in jungle with apretty jungle guide, or not so nice, national geographic speacial kind of thing, the sex life of tropical fish , reptiles and canivores....
sappquest at 02:23 PM JST - 7th July

My wife and I were looking at the bird cages last saturday at the same Maruyama zoo quoted in the article.

Some school children were passing by and one called out "Look! Flamingos!"

Another child in the group pointed at us and called out "America-jin!"

(We're not americans by the way, and yes, this really happened!)
shayouzoku at 02:38 PM JST - 7th July

The participants feed pandas, lions and penguins, and clean their rearing rooms.

...clean their rearing rooms? for that type of experience you can apply to be a maid at the local love hotel
Triumvere at 03:54 PM JST - 7th July

Drunk people + tigers!

Survival events indeed.
stanoue at 05:33 PM JST - 7th July

I wasn't sure whether the 'adult-oriented events' were aimed at a) increasing the birthrate by sex ed or b) increasing adult visitors to zoos.
borscht at 06:08 AM JST - 8th July

Also included in the program is an ‘‘environment enrichment’’ lesson attaching importance to animals’ mental healthcare.

Seems the zoo is doing more for the animals than the Japanese government is doing for the people of Japan.
MichaelJP at 07:14 AM JST - 8th July

Rio Or a heavy-petting zoo.

LOL, that's closer to what I thought when I read the headline.
keshii at 12:59 PM JST - 9th July

I agree. Rio definitely takes the cake on this one.
Farmboy at 07:06 PM JST - 9th July

**Amid Japan’s falling birthrate, zoos across the country are trying to survive by offering events for adults* >

This title and beginning was intentionally meant to mislead, I would say. Like everyone else here, I thought that people had REALLY gotten desperate.

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Mato99 at 07:45 AM JST - 11th July

I heard that they are renting out party space in Obstetrician clinics too now. At least the zoo is making an attempt. The Oakland zoo has done gourmet parties and wine tastings for years. I have no idea if the zoos make any money off of this,considering they need to clean up the mess made by a pack of drunken adults. Thank god zoos have the giant sized brooms.
Zen_Builder at 07:49 AM JST - 11th July

I like the night-tours that some zoos are now opffering.

Also we finally got our son in for a nights stay at an aquarium, Kids will get lectures/tours/food and able to observe fishes, etc at night.

Also they get to sleep inside the aquarium in sleeping bags.

Fun times.