This is what Denver Zoo has progressed to from 1906 to historic bear mountain to today. Concerned organized animal institution or "caving to pressure."
In view of the tragic escape and death of the tiger at the San Francisco Zoo, this is how San Francisco responded. Right thing to do? Or caving to pressure.
The design of the San Francisco Zoo's big cat grotto, for example, may be partly to blame for the recent tiger escape. At the time of the attack, a 33-foot-wide concrete moat and a 12.5-foot-tall wall surrounded the exhibit, even though the Association of Zoos and Aquariums recommends that walls around tiger enclosures measure at least 16.5 feet high. Although the tiger did leap over the wall, what prompted the attack is unknown. Some reports, for example, have suggested that the victims in the attack harassed and provoked the animal. That emphasizes the importance of treating zoo animals with respect—the same way you'd want visitors to act in your home. "The big cat grotto will be closed until the Zoological Society decides it's fit for reopening.
The Floto Show elephants must have been exciting to be around. I think this is the first time I have shown these three aftermath pictures together.
Fortunately this incident occurred in the morning while Alispaw was practicing the act and not during a performance.
"Note the date on this photo graph. Does anybody have the courage to tell me when the last incident of an elephant running/stampeding occurred? And how the industry dealt with it. This is how it was addressed/dealt with in 1913:"
Anonymous said...Maybe the SF bulls didn't like Canada? They also ran away later in Cranbrook, resulting in the famous elephant hunt in the woods.
28 August, 2008 10:26
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Two way's of dealing with a situation.
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Wade, as you know, the San Francisco Tatiana issue is difficult for me. It always saddens me when a beautiful animal has to lose its life because of the stupidity of humans. I don't wish to debate the subject of who was stupid or at what point in time, but human stupidity is the bottom line. And yes, I believe that the zoo is now caving to pressure.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
I am not aware of the situation now. How are they "caving to pressure?"
Wade
Wade, the last I heard, and it could have changed by now, the AR nuts want the zoo to be a sanctuary or refuge without breeding and not open to the public, and this was the direction they were heading when I last followed the whole sorry mess.
Mary ann
Wade, this is not recent, but I haven't heard anything different since.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/11/BA3F1177HE.DTL
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
Is the SF Zoo being picked on unfairly? Are you saddened for Ashlee Pfaff or the Jaguar? She was a beautiful young lady not a drunken scoundrel.
On February 24, 2007, a jaguar mauled zookeeper Ashlee Pfaff inside the animal's enclosure. The jaguar was shot and killed by the zoo's emergency response team while rescuing Pfaff, who later died of her injuries at a local hospital. This event occurred despite zoo policy prohibiting direct contact between keepers and big cats.[6] An investigation by the zoo concluded the attack was the result of human error by Pfaff.
Wade
Yes Wade, I do feel sorry for the zookeeper and the jaguar. Many of my friends are zookeepers, and they love their jobs and the animals in their care. They certainly don't do it for the money, since many hold second jobs to make ends meet.
Mary Ann
Elephant's knocking down seating sections... Been awhile. Running away. Let's just say more recently. I don't know that running away automatically implies "human error." The Floto herd was notorious. Looking at it with some historical perspective, these elephants really did behave like a "herd" for years and years, mixed males and females, etc.
SF ZOO has made some poor choices over the last decade. And they ALWAYS cave in to pressure. Doesn't help having IDA headquartered across the bay. Anti-zoo activists like Dense Bobol have been having a field day.
Wade, the emergency response team behaved correctly both in SF when the tiger escaped and in the Ashlee Pfaff case. First priority has to be protecting human life. By contrast when Robin Silverman was killed at the Bronx Zoo, there was no chance that she could be saved, nor danger to the public. The tigers were just behaving like tigers when somebody runs.
Ben,
I meant running in general. And I agree that the animal or the person being the option, the animal goes. I don't know for sure the Bronx situation.
Wade
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