This has been on the news here a couple of nights (with new videos, etc.). Another video shows the kid looking at the lion and then goes back to looking at the floor/camera.
The mom said she would have grabbed him if he had become upset or anything. And it wasn’t until a friend commented that the kid had a “zebra” shirt on that the mom noticed that.
I don’t see the big deal, other than a pretty cool video of an amazing animal. (How come they are always sleeping when I go to the zoo!?) And the glass at all of these zoos has been around a long time - why are others just starting to worry about them breaking now?
Oh, and I’m guessing that the lion couldn’t read the “Don’t Tap on the Glass” sign.
“And the glass at all of these zoos has been around a long time - why are others just starting to worry about them breaking now?”
Perhaps because more people are now more aware of zoo animals escaping their enclosures than they were in previous years.
Global warming weakens the glass.