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Originally Posted by Wannabee
We visited TV in January and were awed by the beautiful buffalos. My husband walked up to one and it nearly jumped over the fence at him! No where was it posted to stay away. In fact we were under the impression that everyone fed them carrots. I guess I won't be very popular but I for one am glad to see them go, I think they could be very dangerous :'(
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Unfortunately, your situation was probably not too unique. And I don't mean to criticize you husband's actions. Everybody gets super close to them all the time. There are some signs and periodic warning, but people continue to feed them (they do love carrots) and even hold tinyish kids over the fence to feed the nice little buffalo. And they have been industrial strength adorable of late since the calves arrived. I mean, how cute can they possibly be. I too hate to see them go, and hopefully there is no financial reason beyond the stated cause for this action. I'd like to see them (CDD, developer, family, whoever?) possibly look into alternatives, like a double fence that might keep the feckless humans at a safe distance from the buffalo.
As to Chuck's suggestion about the gators, evidently even our dumbest residents and guest don't try to feed or ride the gators and give them plenty of room. Maybe they could pen the buffalo in an inner corral surrounded by a gator filled moat or wetlands. The only problem would be that you'd have to throw a zebra into the moat occasionally to keep the gagtors from eating the buffalo.