A kangaroo wouldn’t hop — so zoo visitors stoned it to death

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    A kangaroo was stoned to death in a Chinese zoo — apparently for the same reason that a brown bear was once crushed to death by Russian videographers, and a shark in Florida was dragged behind a motorboat like a kite.

    That is, to gratify a human.

    The kangaroo — a 12-year-old female whose name is not known — was not hopping enough to amuse spectators at the Fuzhou Zoo late last February, the New York Times reported, quoting Chinese media.

    So someone picked up a rock. Or it might have been a brick or slab of concrete, Agence France-Presse wrote. In any case, it wasn’t unusual for visitors to this zoo in southeast China to provoke animals with projectiles.

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