Penza, 8 May 2018. PenzaNews. Andrei Voskresensky, director of the Penza zoo, City Duma deputy, urged visitors to avoid feeding the animals kept in the institution.

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"The zoo season has started and visitors have begun to feed animals: they give sausages to leopards, feed cranes with bread, then upload photos and videos this on Instagram, give popcorn to llamas and alpacas. They feed every animal they can reach. Dear visitors of the zoo! This is entertainment for you but death for the animals!" he wrote on his Facebook profile.

Andrei Voskresensky drew attention to the fact that a zoo is different from a farm where animals are bred.

"You kill them with your feeding; ‘good’ people come to the zoo in hundreds. When will we, people, understand and comply with what is written in animals' blood: ‘Do not feed animals in the zoo’? It means death to them, they are fed by professionals, each of them has a diet of its own. If you want to do a good deed, you can make use of two containers near the ticket office – leave the food there," the head of the institution added.

In one of the comments to this post it was suggested that tables reading “I like animals therefore I don't feed them” should be placed on the cages.

"Unfortunately, people don't care what is written. It is a show for them, this is why they go to a zoo – to feed animals, not just to see them. I will try to attach such tables but it is a problem of all Russian zoos," the zoo director said.