I could definitely see a kid climbing that fence. They should at the very least make it a solid wooden fence.
At the San Diego Zoo, I once saw a polar bear very close to a little girl, so close that it tried to bite her. Was she hurt? No, because San Diego Zoo has armored glass between the bears and the people. You can get right up next to the bears, but you can’t try to stick your hand in their enclosure and pet them, or anything stupid like that.
Or, they could just put up another chain link fence inside the enclosure, so that the bears are kept at least arm’s length away from the outer chain link fence, or replace the wooden fence with a chain link fence. That would protect even stupid people who climb the outer fence from the bears. As Einstein said, “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
It really is a shame that the bears had to be put down because of human stupidity. Just like it’s a shame how many stupid tourists feed bears or try to get pictures of their kids near wild bears :rolleyes: in parks, and as a result the bears have to be put down. Part of me wants to let these people get as near as they want to the bears, and let Darwin sort it out… :mad:
Could the kid read?
Or maybe his parents were the kind of people who have taught him that signs telling you not to do something are for other people :rolleyes:
Well, if that turns out to be true then Maymont should present the parents with a bill for the cost of replacing the bears. Hell, Maymont should hit the parents with a bill anyway for at least the costs associated with killing and testing the bears for rabies.
I agree there was a triple fault here with most of it resting on the parents, but
if that’s true then I think more of the fault shifts back to the zoo keepers, heck at least make sure the kid was injured by the bears before killing them!
I do think that talk of punishing the kid with numerous injections or worse is a bit harsh, after all he is just four years old. I think they should just take a couple of his teddy bears and nicely explain to him how since he was naughty and disobeyed the real bears had to pay for it and then RIP the heads of his teddy bears and tell him that is what was done to the bears all because of him.
I don’t know; the kid I saw certainly looked old enough to be able to read, and his mom was standing right behind him, watching him climb all over the barriers (watched him push me out of the way, too, as I was standing there watching the warthogs, but I digress.)
I may have to retract my statement about the barriers being inadequate; I have to go to my local zoo and check. I recalled them being different, but my husband says our zoo has similar barriers for our bears.