{"id":186571,"date":"2025-06-15T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186571\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:37:09","slug":"china-zoo-visitors-slammed-for-lucky-tiger-hair-pulling-warned-against-provoking-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186571\/","title":{"rendered":"China zoo visitors slammed for \u2018lucky\u2019 tiger hair pulling, warned against provoking beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A group of tourists who pulled out the hair of a tiger at a zoo in China, thinking it would ward off evil spirits, have sparked outrage online.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On June 8, a viral video showed several visitors at a zoo in Liaoning province, northeastern China, pulling hair from the big cat\u2019s belly and tail through a metal fence.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The incident took place in a special zone where tigers often rest on top of a steel viewing tunnel.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the video, one of the tourists, a woman, is heard saying: \u201cLet\u2019s pull more! Tiger hair keeps evil away and protects the home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A video of the incident shows tourists plucking tufts of hair from the big cat through a metal fence. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/e0214129-5fde-4206-9de1-f843896e4f6a_bc3c6258.jpg\" title=\"A video of the incident shows tourists plucking tufts of hair from the big cat through a metal fence. Photo: Handout\"\/>A video of the incident shows tourists plucking tufts of hair from the big cat through a metal fence. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A couple of fellow visitors each grab small tufts of hair, and some tie them to their handbags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of tourists who pulled out the hair of a tiger at a zoo in China, thinking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3847],"tags":[76512,51064,21355,76510,76505,57638,76519,1395,16536,76523,58411,2766,60700,76502,76504,19457,76506,5899,76513,76514,76515,7078,48238,1444,76521,76516,15277,76524,2725,76525,76501,76511,6096,16757,9386,55759,5494,3433,46044,76503,76518,70,76520,76509,1218,51991,20062,17333,76500,76517,5006,8794,24130,1265,76508,16,15,5178,359,76507,416,67365,771,2711,1717,76522,68289],"class_list":["post-186571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ancient","tag-animal","tag-animal-abuse","tag-beasts","tag-belly","tag-big-cat","tag-careless","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-chinese-culture","tag-courage","tag-culture","tag-distress","tag-enclosure","tag-evil-spirits","tag-expert","tag-fence","tag-free","tag-generals","tag-gods","tag-good-luck","tag-hair","tag-handbags","tag-home","tag-ignorant","tag-keeper","tag-king","tag-king-of-beasts","tag-law","tag-liaoning-province","tag-luck","tag-masculine","tag-national","tag-penalty","tag-photographer","tag-pictures","tag-political","tag-power","tag-protect","tag-provocation","tag-provoke","tag-science","tag-selfish","tag-souvenir","tag-steel","tag-strength","tag-swan","tag-tiger","tag-tiger-hair","tag-touching","tag-tourism","tag-tourists","tag-tradition","tag-travellers","tag-tunnel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-university","tag-video","tag-viewing","tag-viral","tag-visitors","tag-war","tag-warning","tag-wildlife","tag-xinjiang","tag-zoo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}