The gorilla belonged to Zoo Miami. Not the Cincinnati Zoo. Ron Magill thinks it was the right call to shoot the gorilla and thinks for 35 years the barriers in place dos their job holding back millions of visitors. He thinks people need to watch their kids but also said this woman shouldn't be persecuted over this issue. So, I doubt any lawsuits like that take place.
The Cincinnati Zoo is the second oldest zoo in the United States, opened in 1875. Philadelphia opened one year earlier.
There are roughly 100 Sumatran Rhinos left in the world, 9 in captivity. The Cincinnati Zoo has bred 4 of the 9 in captivity.
Please dump. Teach us all more about how to be a fucking parent when you've never even gotten your dick wet.
As a father of two who has taken both to the zoo by myself with one of them being 4, I think I can fairly say she was being extremely neglectful.
It is...but it boggles my mind that such an enclosure could be so easily entered. Maybe this is an unreasonable expectation, but I'd hope 200 unsupervised toddlers wouldn't be able to break into a deadly animal's cage
It's really not uncommon to have an easily scalable wall for zoo exhibit....anybody could hop in with the elephants, ostriches, or rhinos at my zoo. Any one of those could kill someone
Until you show me conclusive evidence she was being neglectful, then this is simply a tragic accident.
Attractive nuisance wes tegg For adults. You can't expect to keep a motivated adult out without ruining the exhibit.
We've been through this before in the baseball threads. You can't put up nets everywhere because for every injury or death they prevent, THOUSANDS of people's views are slightly inconvenienced.
Doesn't apply here. Attractive nuisance is when an artificial improvement to land induces children too young to appreciate the risk to trespass.
I don't think it applies because the standard of a residence vs a theme park, but certainly a waterfall is an artificial improvement.
And they're invitees. Attractive nuisance is a way around the general principal that you're not liable for injuries to trespassers. There's no relevance to a situation where the plaintiff is not a trespasser.
Yea so it appears the barrier was no match at all for a wild ass 4 year old. How can that be the only thing between the public and the animals?
The barriers at these zoos seem to be working well enough to keep 183,999,999 people out of the 184 million who visit zoos every year out of animal enclosures. It's not like this is an epidemic.
How soon before this kid cracks Rivals Top 5 for athletes? Also, how are there no pics of this enclosure and what the kid actually scaled to break in? No way the only barrier is a 3 foot wall, a bush, and a 15 foot drop.
oh man the new parents itt are the goddamn worst. it's such a sad cliche at this point, they're like freshman college students who take that semester of philosophy 101 and won't shutup. grats on doing something so insanely not unique and not special, that literally hundreds of millions of people across thousands of years have been doing long before you ever came into existence. really though, if the words "well, are you a parent?" come out of your mouth during a discussion just take your L and go home.
I love making fun of the Boo MF'er crowd, but your post makes me want to adopt some sub Saharan invalids.
I like how in the article it was stated the boy "joked he was going to go in there (the moat)" to the mother.... Who then got distracted while he went in.