The Walking Dead Season 7 trailer premiered at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday and featured the long awaited King Ezekiel's on-screen debut along with his tiger and zombie-eating sidekick- Shiva.
King Ezekiel and Shiva- Credit: AMC
It was revealed that Shiva was brought to life on screen with the help of animatronics and computer-generated imagery. "So there's no real tiger at all, it's all magic", series creator Robert Kirkman told fans.
CBS has supposedly been criticised for using wild animals in its show Zoo. PETA awarded The Walking Dead with an Innovation in Television Award for using CGI- not real animals for it's new story.
"By choosing the excitement of cutting-edge technology instead of captive animals, The Walking Dead has won the respect of everyone who objects to condemning wild animals to live chained and in cages as well as making them perform under the threat of a whip", says PETA Director Mimi Bekhechi. "PETA will press television and film producers to follow the show's compassionate lead."
Reportedly- over 60,000 people have contacted CBS to ask that Zoo stop using wild animals. Last season, the show featured big cats, a bear, wolves, and two baboons, among many other animals.
CBS supposedly decided not to use infamous trainer Michael Hackenberger after PETA US - whose motto reads, in part, that "animals are not ours to use for entertainment" - alerted producers that he had been caught on camera whipping a tiger. Hackenberger has since been charged with five counts of cruelty to animals.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk.
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