(from the article)
The fights took place on one of the zoos busiest days of the year. More than 29,000 visitors showed up to take advantage of Free Day for Jackson and Clay County residents.
The zoo offers free day four times a year for those residents because voters in those two counties passed a sales tax to subsidize zoo operations.
So, in a way I am correct. Zoo welfare.
Yeah. They deserve "free" days.
After all, those sales taxes on EBT and SNAP cards are heavy lifting, man. They are really carrying the freight for us other yokels who actually get up in the morning and go to work at a job!!