[michigander]

... statements to The Chronicle that the victims may have dangled a limb over the animal's enclosure, helping the 350-pound cat escape.

The victims deny that account. They only dangled a limb over the crocodile enclosure....

[Shermy]

“statements to The Chronicle that the victims may have dangled a limb over the animal’s enclosure,”

“may have”

Zoo cover story.

I wonder if the moat was 20 feet deep in the past, but the moat was filled in over the years for some water drainage problems or the like..