点评:Our first visit but as locals we’ve always felt bad for the livestock as we drive past because they have no trees or shelter in their fields; on hot days there’s nowhere for them to get shade. If they’d planted trees when they first started the park it would be so much better for the animals and for visitors.
Our eleven year old was quite upset after visiting the small animal experience. He hated seeing Fred the tortoise in an open viv table, which is too tempting for visitors to reach into, when it says that Fred doesn’t like being touched. Don’t put an animal that doesn’t like being handled somewhere where people will inevitably try and touch it.
The small animals are in too-small enclosures with very little enrichment; plastic plants are used instead of real ones in the vivariums, presumably because the staff lack the expertise and equipment to care for live plants. Yes, the animals all had food and water available but meeting the bare minimum welfare requirements with zero enrichment was saddening. We all left feeling fairly downbeat. When you compare it to even somewhere like Amazonia or Clyde Valley it doesn’t compare well; their animal environments are so much richer and better thought out than Dalscone’s.
The kids enjoyed the soft play and the go karts but I wouldn’t visit again.
Dalscone, get some trees planted in your fields and enrich your small animal experience for the animals’ sake. It would make it feel a lot less like you’re just out to grab everyone’s money at the animals’ expense. It needs to feel good for the animals and not just look good for the cameras.
翻译:这是我们第一次来,但作为当地人,每次开车路过都会为那些牲畜感到难过,因为它们的田地里没有树木或遮荫处;炎热的夏天,它们根本找不到阴凉的地方。如果公园刚建成时就种上树,对动物和游客来说都会好得多。
我们11岁的孩子参观完小型动物区后非常难过。他很讨厌看到弗雷德(一只乌龟)被放在一个开放式的饲养箱里,这太容易让游客伸手去摸了,而展板上明明写着弗雷德不喜欢被触摸。不应该把不喜欢被触摸的动物放在人们肯定会想摸的地方。
小型动物的饲养箱太小,几乎没有任何环境丰富化措施;饲养箱里用的是塑料植物而不是真植物,大概是因为工作人员缺乏照料活体植物的专业知识和设备。没错,动物们都有食物和水,但仅仅满足了最低限度的福利要求,没有任何环境丰富化措施,这让人感到很遗憾。我们离开时都心情很低落。即使和亚马逊雨林或克莱德河谷这样的地方相比,达尔斯科恩也逊色不少;它们的动物环境比达尔斯科恩丰富得多,也更精心设计。
孩子们很喜欢软体游乐区和卡丁车,但我不会再去第二次了。
达尔斯科恩,为了动物们的福祉,请在你们的田地里种些树,改善一下你们的小型动物体验。这样就不会让人觉得你们只是为了赚钱而牺牲动物的利益。你们应该真正为动物着想,而不仅仅是为了拍出好看的照片。