Posted on 04/13/2009 1:48:12 PM PDT by JoeProBono
The Prospect Park Zoo used to be a real zoo. It was "state of the art" when it opened in the early part of the 20th century, but was considered antiquated when they closed it down and shipped the animals elsewhere so that they could make a big children's zoo.
The incident that brought this on was when a kid climbed into the polar bear cage and actually taunted one of the bears. The kid was killed. The other bear headed back into the "cave" in the pen. Someone thought that there was another kid hiding in there and told zoo officials and cops on the scene. Well, even if they had a tranq gun handy, it takes 30-45 minutes to tranq a bear. Cops shot the bears and went looking for the other kid. (there wasn't any.)
Sad thing is that I was at that zoo a couple days earlier. I even took a picture of the two bears that had been living there since before I was born.
Here in Toronto, when a new polar bear cub is born they typically have a naming contest. The prize is a chance to go to the zoo and play with the cub. The only stipulation is it must be done before the bear is 6 months old because it’s at that point that they begin to see humans as a food items.
Surely that should have been the other way around, shouldn’t it?
Sometimes the bear eats you
How can anyone argue with such impeccable logic?
Obviously, they should have planned to shoot and kill the human.
Less fallout that way.
I knew that.
That is not true.
I worked for SeaWorld for over 20 years. We always laughed at them!!
There was a Pleistocene-era bear named the "dog-bear".
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