If you love animals do not come to this zoo - 千叶妈妈牧场 (富津市) - Mother Farm - 451条旅客点评与比价

Mary S

If you love animals do not come to this zoo

千叶妈妈牧场的点评

2026年10月02日发布于: 海外

点评：If you love animals do not come to this zoo. A dreadful zoo. The 2 capybaras were the most stressed capybaras I have ever seen. They repeatedly exhibited a stress behaviour, opening and closing their mouths (this type of stress behaviour is known as a stereotypie). There are 2 capybaras, 3-year-old brothers Matsuba and Ohagi. The smaller of the 2 capybaras, Ohagi, had diarrhea. I visited them on a Sunday for the first time, when it was very crowded, I soon realised that these capybaras were not used to being petted by someone who knew and understood capybaras. I was able to help them relax. (I have spent 15 years studying the species and have written 3 books about capybaras. I know how to help them relax.) When the capybaras realised I knew how to pet them and interact with them, they spent the whole day with me. I was able to use a bamboo stick to pet them which mimics the sensation of a bird pecking a capybara looking for insects in the wild. The visitors really enjoyed watching us. When I came back the following Thursday there was a very unpleasant keeper who seemed to resent the fact that a foreigner knew how to interact with capybaras. It was obvious she did not like foreigners and told me I could not use my bamboo stick or my leash to pet the capybaras. Using the leash is very gentle and it helps the capybaras relax. At every other zoo in Japan I am able to use the stick and the leash to pet capybaras. I am in a wheelchair so these help me interact with the capybaras. There were quite a few badly behaved children who frightened the capybaras but the keeper never said anything or told them to stop. This keeper kept repeating through a loudspeaker, over and over again, that you could buy food to feed to the animals listing the names of the species of animal. This constant loud noise of the loudspeaker was very intrusive and added to the stress the capybaras were experiencing. The enclosure has a concrete floor which causes wounds on the "elbows" of capybaras. The capybaras spend most of their lives in a very small pen where they stay for 17 hours a day when the zoo is closed. At the end of the day the larger and dominant of the 2 capybaras refused to go into this pen indicating how stressful he found spending 17 hours in a cramped, very small, indoor pen. These capybaras never have the opportunity to relax or eat grass or go somewhere relaxing. There is grass everywhere outside the enclosure but visitors are asked not to feed it to the capybaras. Fortunately, many Japanese people ignore this rule.
I was making a real difference to the happiness and welfare of the capybaras whereas most of the other visitors did not know how to behave with capybaras and were increasing the stress these capybaras were experiencing and displaying.
Most of the sheep were walking with a limp.

翻译：如果你喜欢动物，千万别来这个动物园。一个糟糕透顶的动物园。那两只水豚是我见过压力最大的水豚。它们反复表现出一种应激行为：张嘴又闭嘴（这种应激行为被称为刻板行为）。这两只水豚是三岁的兄弟，名叫松叶和小萩。体型较小的那只水豚小萩还拉了肚子。我第一次去看它们是在星期天，当时动物园里人非常多。我很快意识到，这些水豚并不习惯被懂得如何与它们相处的人抚摸。不过我成功地让它们放松下来。（我花了15年时间研究这一物种，还写了3本关于水豚的书。我知道该如何让它们放松。）当水豚们意识到我知道如何抚摸它们、如何与它们互动后，它们便一整天都待在我身边。我可以用一根竹棒来抚摸它们，这种触感就如同野外的鸟儿为了找虫子而啄食水豚一样。游客们也看得津津有味。然而，到了下一个星期四我再次前往时，遇到了一位态度极其恶劣的饲养员。她似乎很不满一个外国人竟懂得如何与水豚互动。显然她不喜欢外国人，还不许我使用竹棒或牵引绳来抚摸水豚。使用棍子和牵引绳非常温和，能帮助水豚放松。在日本的其他任何动物园里，我都可以用棍子和牵引绳来抚摸水豚。我坐轮椅，所以这些工具能帮我与水豚互动。当时有不少行为不端的孩子把水豚吓到了，但饲养员什么也没说，也没让他们停下。这位饲养员只是通过扩音器反复重复着……可以购买食物来喂给那些动物，食物包装上还列出了各种动物的种类名称。但扬声器持续发出的巨大噪音十分扰人，进一步加重了水豚们的压力。饲养圈舍的地面是水泥的，这会导致水豚的“肘部”受伤。在动物园闭馆期间，这些水豚每天有17个小时都待在一个极其狭小的围栏里。最终，两只水豚中体型较大且占主导地位的那只拒绝进入那个围栏，这说明它在那个狭窄又极小的室内围栏里待了17个小时后感到极为紧张。这些水豚根本没有机会放松身心、吃草或去个安静的地方休息。围栏外面到处都是草，但游客们被要求不可喂草给水豚。幸运的是，很多日本人并不遵守这一规定。我切实地改善了水豚们的幸福感和福祉；而大多数其他游客则不知道该如何与水豚相处，反而增加了它们的压力与焦虑。
大多数羊走路时都一瘸一拐的。

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