This doesn't make sense any way you look at it.
It seems that bleacher's around an elephant exhibit has enjoyed a resurgence in some of the new "cutting edge" exhibit's seen around the world.
Note the similarities between Negara's elephant building/stalls and the one at the Saigon Zoo below.
At least Saigon had sense enough to put a barrier in front of the dry moat. Elephant deaths caused by moats are amazingly still occurring, the two most recent incidents in the Netherlands and Mexico two years ago.
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Radar,
ReplyDeleteDollar to donuts, the barrier around the Saigon moat was an afterthought after the elephants kept walking into it and right up to the people. The Negara Zoo moat looks like it would be an easy matter to get out of, if a fall should occur. Elephant death's caused by moat's are puzzling given the lake/river rescues that have been attributed to wild herds. LOL The amount of "real estate" often sacrificed for a moat, in lieu of a "jail, like barrier of steel or a hot fence often doesn't make sense, except to the public's misguided perception.
Wade
Wade,
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting how popular and future-minded moats first became when introduced by Hagenbeck almost a century ago, though they now are considered antiquated as we return to the fences and barriers Hagenbeck sought to eliminate. Perhaps this was kept in mind when exhibits at Oklahoma City and Washingon DC were designed.