We must remember we are taking wild animals out of their natural environment and placing them in cages......they are doing what comes naturally. The zoo has to be responsible for setting up the scenario that allowed this. Both any taunting of the animal in their care and the enclosure that failed to hold the animal to protect viewers. No one seems to place the blame where it belongs.
Exactly right.
“The zoo has to be responsible for setting up the scenario that allowed this. Both any taunting of the animal in their care and the enclosure that failed to hold the animal to protect viewers. No one seems to place the blame where it belongs.”
absolutely...I’m sure there are obnoxious teens at every zoo who try to tease the animals.
We visited Ross Park and saw the tigers in Aug.
I’m trying to remember if there was any way a stupid/drunk teen could manage to climb up and sit on a wall.
Maybe I’m wrong - but I don’t think they could do it there.
One poster was making a distinction between an unprovoked tiger attack vs. someone jumping into the tiger pit.
While this kid didn’t jump into the pit...it does appear he managed to sit on the fence and dangle his legs in.
Again - as far as zoo liability is concerned...should it have been possible for this kid to manage that?
No - especially adding in - no staff monitoring the exhibit, and no cameras used to help monitor.
I’m saying there’s enough blame to go around. The zoo worker should have been more careful (this is a TIGER, remember, not a trained domestic animal), the zoo should have created more secure areas of their wild animals, and the zoo patrons should have exercized at least a modicum of personal responsibility and adult behavior. They THOUGHT they were taunting a powerful animal made helpless by the enclosure. They were fine with that, until the tiger got out and got her licks in, too. I have no use for such individuals, period. And no, I’m not a member of PETA. I just don’t like people who think it’s fun to bully those who can’t fight back—animals, children—but hardly ever anyone who can fight back, you’ll notice.