The rich entertain tiger, hippo breeding hobby While some big businessmen entertain themselves with the collections of luxurious cars or helicopters, others spend their money on the collections of wild animals. Wild animals behind bars  The hippos being bred at Dai Nam zoo. The zoo in the Dai Nam tourism complex owned by Huynh Uy Dung, a well- known billionaire in the south is believed to be the “most valuable and rarest” one, not only in Covering an area of 12.5 hectares, the Dai Nam Zoo is the home of 100 precious and rare animal species, from There at the zoo, South American squirrel monkeys, zebras and hippos can give birth just like in the wild. The couple of hippos at the zoo were reportedly imported from The sharks’ jaw collections  Fishermen said there are a lot of shark species in the The jaws are priced at between hundreds of thousands of dong and over 10 million dong. Observers noted that collecting shark jaws remains less popular than collecting predator’s claws. However, it is also very hard to “hunt” for fish jaws. Xuan, a collector in While people collect beasts’ claws - because they believe the claws would make them stronger and help prevent bad things to come, people collect shark jaws just because they like the unique things. “When you possess the things that other people cannot have, you will feel very satisfied, because this shows you’re high class,” Xuan said. Billions of dong spent on bird cages  In fact, collecting original birds is no more unfamiliar to Vietnamese. However, this is now for the first time they hear about the “genetic modified birds” collection. People whisper in each others’ ears that a genetic modified bird owned by a rich man in Bui Duy Dat in Quang Yen town of The bird’s cages alone cost big money. According to Dat, a cage is worth VND5-10 million. Meanwhile, Dat’s bird total asset is worth up to over VND1 billion. Dat has to spend VND200 million a year just on the feed for the birds and cleaning services. If noting that every bird needs VND1,500 worth feed every day, the 400 birds would gobble up VND600,000 a day. Kim Chi, |
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