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re: Zoo Kills Gorilla to Protect Small Child in Enclosure
Posted on 5/31/16 at 6:07 pm to RaginCajunz
Posted on 5/31/16 at 6:07 pm to RaginCajunz
Exhibit A in any litigation. Zoo is going to have problems with this. With the height of the bushes it is entirely reasonable, if not foreseeable, that a child would climb up on the rail to see over (like the one in the picture lol). Looks like only someone about 10 or so could see over those bushes without climbing on the rail. No net or other backstop like 5 foot of glass or something is almost asking for this scenario regardless of how long it had been there without an accident. As the trend in Zoos is more like this with minimal unobtrusive barriers to make the exhibits more natural, I'll be surprised if it doesn't happen more.
ETA - to remove apostrophe for the jacklegs who must point that stuff out also to add link - has happened before a different zoo and different outcome
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This post was edited on 5/31/16 at 6:24 pm
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:39 pm to Tortious
quote:This exhibit had apparently been open for 38 years with no issues. Easy to say in hindsight, I'm guessing we wouldn't give it much thought if we saw it before this.
Exhibit A in any litigation. Zoo is going to have problems with this. With the height of the bushes it is entirely reasonable, if not foreseeable, that a child would climb up on the rail to see over (like the one
Also, these enclosures have to go through governmental inspections and it obviously passed all of them.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 1:56 am to pensacola
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What if there were 30 gorillas in the enclosure. The silverback is sitting there holding the kid like a football and all the others are watching from a close distance. Do you get the entire swat team and assign each shooter a gorilla and drop the whole troop simultaneously?
I would carpet bomb an entire zoo to save a child. I wouldn't enjoy it and I'd need many years of therapy, but it wouldn't even be a hard decision. But that's just my human instinct talking.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 2:01 am to northshorebamaman
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I would carpet bomb an entire zoo to save a child. I
I sure wouldn't trade peaceful, rare, endangered animals for a single over populated, violent one.
By your logic, we would plow up the Serengeti -- destroy that ecosystem and all that comes with it -- to let the Africans farm it. Because it would support more children.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 2:06 am to No Colors
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I sure wouldn't trade peaceful, rare, endangered animals for a single over populated, violent one.
By your logic, we would plow up the Serengeti -- destroy that ecosystem and all that comes with it -- to let the Africans farm it. Because it would support more children.
That's not my logic at all. I'm discussing already living, breathing children. Your example is creating more children. I certainly don't support creating a breeding ground, shitty straw man.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 2:18 am to northshorebamaman
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shitty straw man.
I'm missing the insult
Posted on 6/2/16 at 2:26 am to No Colors
It wasn't supposed to be an insult but it should have read "strawman". Auto-correct, on my phone.
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