Elefanten-Massage & Bierbad

© APA/Barbara Waltonepa01253732 An elephant gives a volunteer a massage at Sriracha Tiger Zoo, Sriracha, about 120 km south east of Bangkok, Thailand, 13 February 2008. The zoo claims to be the largest tiger zoo in the world with over 200 Bengal tigers. They also have thousands of crocodiles, selling and serving crocodile meat and products and run a hatchery and an education centre on the crocodile. The Zoo also promotes strange inter-species family groups - they call Happy Families - such as tigers, pigs and dogs growing up and living together in cages. The zoo actively exhibits its animals in a circus like way, to entertain its tour groups mainly tourists from Russia, Korea, Japan, China and Thailand. EPA/BARBARA WALTON