<p>Animal rights activists have released disturbing footage showing a tiger in a Thai zoo being poked by staff to roar for photos with guests.</p><p>Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand’s video of the tiger, at the Million Years Stone Park and Pattaya Crocodile Farm, has been viewed 1.3 million times since being published on December 18.</p><p>“Today witnessed the ugliness of tourism and wildlife in Pattaya; this tiger gets poked all day, hundreds of times a day so it will roar for the picture with tourists. Time for a change of laws!” Edwin Wiek, founder and director of Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand, wrote in a Facebook post with the video.</p><p>The zoo said the tiger attendant had been transferred to a new job, according to AFP</a>. Credit: Facebook/Edwin Wiek via Storyful</p><br />
