I think skeeter does touch on something. It isn’t uncommon for animal trainers to let their guard down, especially the ones that deal with the er...”intelligent” species.
You don’t often see people who work with gators, snakes and such lose their focus, but when dealing with animals like elephants, dolphins, wolves, chimps and the like, some trainers develop a personal relationship with the animal, and they forget.
I can see the temptation to do so. And all it takes is an animal to have a tantrum just once. Heck, look at Roy Horn who got his throat ripped open by a tiger. All it takes is once...
nice post...most here will scratch heads..lol but I thought it cogent