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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Parents settle lawsuit against Pittsburgh zoo after mauling - NY Daily News
I forgot about that case.
I would have to see a lot more information about safety practices at the Cincinnati zoo's gorilla enclosure before finding the zoo negligent.
As to endangered animals and their habitats that seems to depend a lot on what habitat and what animals are involved. Many animals that are no longer with us were killed off because of man or from radical changes in their habitats. A new habitat might be needed for some endangered animals. And with some animals, a zoo is a lot safer than a place were men and women are hunting these animals sometimes to extinction.
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in that case as per the article, the mother stood the child up on the top of the rail so he could see better and he pulled away from her grasp and fell in. But the zoo settled. Who stands a 2 year old child on top of a railing??? the railing is there for a reason. just as the fence is there for a reason. the zoos assume reasonable people who take responsibility will be there--
of course the gorilla had to be put down but it's just a shame.