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PAGE 20 动物保护组织举办反虐待动物展览 更新时间:2014-4-8 11:07:12?来源: 纽约时报中文网 作者:佚名 Zoo Teams Up to Highlight Animal Mistreatment at Shows动物保护组织举办反虐待动物展览 A mace-wielding clown lashes at a bear cub. An elephant stands on its rear legs on the point of a stun gun, electric arcs running through its body. 一个挥舞着狼牙棒的小丑用鞭子抽打小熊。一头大象用两条后腿站立在电击枪的顶端，电流传遍它的全身。 These and dozens of other images featured at a poster exhibition in Beijing are meant to shock, so that hopefully visitors will go home with the message the organizers want them to remember: animal performance is cruel, and people can help end it by not watching. 上述画面以及数十个其他形象出现在了北京的一个海报展上，它们的目的就是要触目惊心，让观众在回到家后仍然铭记组织者想要传递的信息：动物表演是残忍的，人们可以拒绝观看，从而终结它。 “Not Born to Perform,” which runs until April 15, is yet another anticruelty campaign by Animals Asia Foundation.? Except this time, seeking a venue to display the posters, the animal welfare group has teamed up with an unlikely partner, the city’s oldest and perhaps best-known zoo. “真我无表演”展览是亚洲动物基金(Animals Asia Foundation)的又一次反对虐待动物的行动，展览将持续到4月15号。不过这一次，在寻找海报展览场地的过程中，这家动物保护组织找到了一个意想不到的合作伙伴，那就是这个城市历史最悠久、或许也是最有名的动物园。 “By agreeing to host the exhibition on their premises, Beijing Zoo has set a precedent for all other zoological gardens in China,” said Pei Xin, the senior animal welfare officer of Animals Asia. “We hope more zoos will join it in making such an outstanding commitment to ending animal performance.” 亚洲动物基金的高级动物福利官员裴鑫说，“这样的展览在全国动物园还是第一次，北京动物园在这方面可以说起到了引导表率的作用。我们希望更多的动物园能像北京动物园这样明确地表达反对动物表演的决心。” The exhibition may help educate “zoo managers on why animal performances stifle the expression of normal behavior and that is just not right,” said Zhang Jinguo, the deputy curator of the Beijing Zoo. It also tells visitors that “novelty and thrill isn’t always cool,” he said. 北京动物园副园长张金国说，这次展览将告诉“动物园管理者，为什么不能进行违背动物天性的表演。”它还能告诉参观者，“不要一味追求新奇和刺激。” The partnership illustrates the long way Chinese zoos have come in a continuing debate, sometimes laden with high-stake confrontations, over the we