Reality TV Star,
Khloe Kardashian has upset another group of people with her Dubai selfies. This time it's animal rights campaigners who reacted angrily when she posted a picture with a tiger cub. Yesterday, she posted a number of pictures with a menagerie of animals to her Instagram account including one of her feeding a giraffe, cuddling an orangutan, and 'kissing' a stingray she appears to have become very close with.
'We're disappointed to see yet another celebrity posing with a wild animal. Tiger cubs belong in the wild, with their mothers – not in captivity for use as entertainment or photo props.' Silia Smith of World Animal Protection told DailyMail.com.
'While interacting with wild tigers may seem harmless, people posing with wildlife don't realize that a "once in a lifetime" photo for them means a lifetime of misery for the animal. To be used for entertainment, wild tigers are cruelly poached from the wild as babies or bred in captivity,'
While Orangutans are also an endangered species, it was Khloe's shot of the feline that had activists most upset.
'To people like Khloe Kardashian who love animals, our message is simple: see them in the wild,' Smith urged.
She also warned that tigers are 'highly unpredictable' and have mauled several tourists, and sometimes have their canines removed - at great distress - in case of that.
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