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Lujan Zoo

A controversial zoo in Argentina allows tourists to have extremely close encounters with some of the most dangerous predators in the world.

Here at the Lujan Zoo near Buenos Aires visitors can ride lions, cuddle bears, stroke tigers and feed cheetahs. Cages are accessible to everyone who paid $50 and signed the paper saying that if you are eaten, the Zoo is not responsible. Lujan Zoo is about 50 miles from from Buenos Aires, has an entrance fee of just £5.

Visitors can even pick up the smaller animals and manhandle them at risk to themselves and the creatures. Shockingly there doesn't appear to be much in the way of safety regulations to protect either humans or animals and Internet blogs are littered with pictures of tourists with the animals.

Even children are allowed to enter the lion's cage and fondle a range of animals that have the potential to kill or maim them.

Animal protection charity, The Born Free Foundation, has condemned the zoo and issued a statement to urge tourists not to visit it.
Will Travers, CEO of The Born Free Foundation said: 'Based on what I have seen displayed on the Lujan Zoo website, I am fearful that a terrible accident is going to happen.

CEO of The Born Free Foundation add : 'The zoo is, in my view, placing the lives of its visitors at great risk by encouraging them to have 'close encounters' with dangerous, potentially lethal, wild animals.

'Anyone who has any knowledge of big cats will understand that they are wild animals and, as such, as unpredictable. '

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Posted by bialystock, on 16-12-2011 15:04, , Guest are you kidding me. what kind of dried up miserable doesn't want to ride a lion?? i'd do it in a second. A SECOND. (1/60th of a minute) besides it means the animals have more freedom to roam around and do whatever. that tiger looks like he's enjoying his belly rubs   Posted by Erin, on 23-08-2011 23:14, , Guest This zoo has such beautiful animals... but why would anyone want to visit such a place when obviously, the people running it don't even care about the animals in it. This literally made my 2 and 4 year olds sad looking at these pictures. How awful to see people enjoying themselves while hurting and possibly killing these poor animals. I hope it closes down and all these wild creatures are let free, how they should be!   Posted by harmeet, on 16-03-2011 08:08, , Guest i feel pity for those animals........they also want to live as human do...so these animals should not use for personal amusement...............   Posted by thesmash, on 28-11-2010 01:41, , Guest This place is disgusting, zoos are bad enough for an animal ,but people riding on top of lions? When will people draw the line between ethics and profit   Posted by Carlos Henrique, on 28-08-2010 18:31, , Guest This is very sad and irresponsible. We should avoid such place that all they want is to make money. It is ridiculous what they do with the animals, and not counting the dangerousness of getting so close and even ride wild animals.