Tiger doped and drugged for tourist photo op in Malaysia wildlife park! WTF!

A MALAYSIAN wildlife park came under fire Sunday from wildlife activists over a video posted on YouTube showing an apparently drugged tiger being prodded and poked for the amusement of visitors.

The two-minute clip shows the tiger lying on a slab at a wildlife park in the Afamosa resort while a handler invites visitors walking around it to take pictures with the animal. The handler then prods and pokes the big cat to force it to pose and even uses his knee to jab its head into an upright pose for a photograph.

'This is horrible and a disgrace that an animal is treated in this fashion. We must stop such abuse and the perpetrators must be punished,' Friends of the Earth Malaysia president S.M. Idris told AFP. More...

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