Does anyone have any idea what the "signage" on the exhibit wall say's?
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Kaliningrad Zoo--2006
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Wade G. Burck
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Sign says "Making contact with animals is dangerous". Regretfully, this warning hasn`t stopped some visitors from trying - in 1999, a 19-year old man climbed the barrier, and was grabbed and pulled inside the enclosure by a male elephant Jimmy, who kicked and dragged him around for some 10 minutes, before zoo workers managed to coax elephants back into their building. Man died from his injuries in hospital two days later. News articles on the accident said that a year earlier Jimmy injured a policeman(!) who also tried to get into elephant enclosure.
Leo.
The first word actually is "contact", the same as in English. Too bad about the man. Sincerely Paul
Hi, nice pictures! It's a shame it's still not a happier place for the animals. I visited Kaliningrad a few weeks back and went to the zoo - it's still pretty distressing. Have a look at my blog if you're interested, I took some photos and a few videos - http://phillocke.co.uk/wp/?p=129.
Phil
Phil,
Welcome and thank you for the great link. Given the zoo's financial problems, I don't ever expect it to be any thing more then what it is, and there are dozen's of similar situations around the world. For myself and other animal people around the world, it would be a better zoo if it was devoid of all animal life and instead retained in it's current state for historical purposes. I appreciated your wider angle shot's of the exhibit's as they are hard to find any place. Most pictures taken of poor zoo's just feature close up's of the animals and their state, and not the exhibit as a whole. You are correct in stating that none of the fault should go to the keepers and staff. Without exception the keepers do the best they can with what is available to them, and posses a dedication that is unfathomable to an animal activists or other radical type. FYI the video of the "bears fighting" was nothing more then the bear's "rough housing/playing" much in the fashion of dog's, tiger's, lions, wolves and other canine's and feline's.
I will look forward to you further insight.
Wade
Aha, glad you cleared that up - suppose I should have guessed, due to the lack of blood!
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