A Chiang Mai zoo has reprimanded employees that allowed a Thai tourist to hold a tiger’s testicles for a social media photo.
Netizens erupted in anger at seeing the photos from Tiger Kingdom Mae Rim Chiang Mai showing a female hand cradling the testes of a 6-year-old male tiger and a caption that implied she had squeezed them.
Park officials insisted Aug. 29 that the woman did not squeeze the tiger’s sensitive genitals and at no time was the tiger harmed or the tourist in danger.
Nonetheless, park officials reprimanded the staff members who allowed the photo and said tourists in the future will not be allowed to touch an animal’s genitals.
