Cameras were on hand to witness the extraordinary lives—and deaths—at the Feldman Ecopark which suddenly found itself in the middle of a war.
bullets and bombs, zookeepers and volunteers, who were risking their lives to save big cats, bears, apes and thousands of other creatures at a besiegedhad been shelled relentlessly since the conflict began on Feb. 24, 2022. Throughout it all, a handful of fearless park staff stayed to care for the animals caught in the crossfire.
Scenes of frightened ostrich, deer and antelopes running from the rumbling explosions, monkeys, lions and leopards staring in terror into the fiery night sky alternating with footage of frightened people surging into train stations showed the sheer brutality of war in real-time.“We’re always drawn to those moments where we’re so wrapped up being human and all its foibles and here we have an opportunity to step back and look at ourselves through the animals’ eyes.
Halfway through our conversation, Zeman, looking away and blinking back tears, choked up, “Animals are hope. I saw that for these people. Anytime you deal with animal suffering it’s hard not to get emotional about it.”In the shadow of tragedy and grief, there were plenty of sunny, joyful moments. When Tymofii, the charismatic volunteer vet, is feeding the white tigers, he laughs and says to the wildcats, ‘If the Russians come, I’ll let you out.
Zeman recalled another storyline of traumatized lions and tigers killing their cubs that didn’t make it into the film. “Whether they were killing their newborns or whether they were dying, there was the lack of food, the lack of nourishment and therefore the lack of milk. Some of the cats killed their young because they didn’t want them to suffer. And when you talk to Feldman about this, he’s a mess.
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