AlwaysShocked
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It sounds like there were SEVERAL factors at play for this to happen. 1.) A rambunctious 4 year old boy who likes to climb. I had one of those. 2.) Insufficient adult supervision of small children while at a place of potential danger. 3.) A zoo maintaining an animal in an enclosure that a 4 year old could easily breach.
Obviously, though a sad outcome, the zoo did what they had to do to save this child's life.
Here at the Pittsburgh Zoo a few years back we had a mother who had her small child in front of her standing up on a railing overlooking a pack of some kind of wild dogs. The child fell in and the dogs attacked and killed the child.
IMO what with the known stupidity of some zoo visitors, it is incumbent on the ZOO to see to it that animals can't get out of their enclosures and humans can't get into the enclosures.
Come on. Something was not right that a four year old could get into the gorilla enclosure at this zoo.
Obviously, though a sad outcome, the zoo did what they had to do to save this child's life.
Here at the Pittsburgh Zoo a few years back we had a mother who had her small child in front of her standing up on a railing overlooking a pack of some kind of wild dogs. The child fell in and the dogs attacked and killed the child.
IMO what with the known stupidity of some zoo visitors, it is incumbent on the ZOO to see to it that animals can't get out of their enclosures and humans can't get into the enclosures.
Come on. Something was not right that a four year old could get into the gorilla enclosure at this zoo.