I can’t speak to the specifics of what happened at the zoo.
I can say with experience that no matter how closely I watched my children in a public setting, each of my three sons “got away” at least once. All it takes is a split second, for whatever reason.
There but for the grace of God.
It’s amazing how fast kids move. It’s like they have no bones the way they can shimmy under bars and through windows. It’s too bad it happened but better one live kid and one dead monkey, I say.