Life of Pi, blog #2 [31-63]

Since chapter 7, Pi has told us more and more about how he and his family run the zoo. He goes into deep detail how visitors almost toture the animals with the things they feed them. Some of the worst are people putting needles, safety pins, broken glass, shards of metal in things like apples, and other fruit. i thought this was terrible that people would do that bad of a thing to animals! It's also hard for me to remember that zoos in this time period were pretty much iron bars and a cage, or just a deep pit. Knowing this I can see how visitors to the zoo can do such a thing.
Another thing Pi explains is how you can tell what the animals are thinking just by how they are acting. he says that animals, especially the big animals, are not content in the zoo unless the cages are put together almost perfect. the animals will pace back and forth in there cages to try to get across that there is too much sand, or there is too much sun light in their cage, or if it is to shady and cool, or other things of the sort. He gave the example that content animals will stay by telling a story about a panther that jumped out of a pit that wasn't deep enough because it wasn't treated well. these panthers can jump up vertically 16 feet in the air, but the pit at his zoo was only 14 feet deep. He says that these panthers haven't tried to escape because they are happy with the enviornment.
Haha, the last past of these chapters is his father explaining how every animal in the zoo can be potentially dangerous. From lions mauling a person, elephants smashing someone, a deer impailing a person, hippos goreing, hyenna's clamping their powerful jaws on a neck, a bird's shap beak slashing somebody, and a bengal tiger eating an entire person! I thought all his examples were a bit humorous!