06-02-2016, 02:05 PM
(06-02-2016, 01:17 PM)Blindgreed1 Wrote: Kids meaning teenagers or little kids like this one and the one mauled by the painted dogs? I'm talking about little kids here. Not drunken idiot teenagers.
I'm not following you, Gunnar. The boy who was killed by Polar Bears at the zoo in New York was 11 -- he wasn't a drunken teenager.
Anyway, as I said, I don't know if zoo injuries and deaths are happening more these days; that might well be. I haven't seen any statistics. I just remember hearing and being warned about them on rare occasion back in the day too.
The linked list of attacks by big cats compiled by the Humane Society is kind of interesting. By and large, most of them involved big cats that idiots were keeping as pets or using in private exhibitions. But, a few involve children at zoos, like these:
August 6, 1995 Phoenix, AZ: A mountain lion at the Phoenix Zoo gashed a 5-year old boy’s arm after he wandered too close to the cage. He required stitches to close the wound and received scratches on the side of his chest.
March 16, 1999 Colorado Springs, CO: A 6-year-old boy was severely injured by a leopard at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after he climbed over a rope to get a closer look at the animal. Three months earlier, a woman was scratched by a tiger at the zoo after sticking her hand into his cage.
http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs...idents.pdf