Another animal shot dead at the Zoo. . .

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/ohio-zoo-kills-gorilla-to-protect-small-child-in-enclosure/ar-BBtB4bt?li=AAggNb9

An Ohio zoo was recently tasked with a difficult decision after a young boy managed to fall into a gorilla enclosure. When faced with a decision like this, the zoo obviously has to take the appropriate measures to save the boy's life. In this case, they euthanized the gorilla before it physically harmed the boy saving his life.

Now, here's why I'm a little pissed off about this. A few weeks ago, a young man managed to weasel his way into a lion enclosure in an attempt to commit suicide. This resulted in 2 lions being shot dead to save the mans life. Given the options in both cases, I support the zoos decision to save the lives of the people involved in these cases. With that being said, I think this shines a light on the lackluster security of these enclosures at both zoos and DEFINITELY proves something more needs to be done to prevent this from happening.

How in the world did this little boy have time to weasel his way into the enclosure with the gorilla? My parents would never have taken their eyes off us kids long enough to allow something like this to happen. Secondly, in the case of the lion enclosure incident, where are the zookeepers and how could they overlook something like this? This implies to me that the security surrounding these areas is not up to par. All entry points to enclosures should be guarded with some kind of security features like standing guards or alarms. These situations should not even have an opportunity to occur.

Three innocent animals lost their lives thanks to poorly secured enclosures. Three innocent animals were shot dead in front of onlookers. Three innocent animals who spent their lives in enclosures for our entertainment were killed because of human errors. It's time to really look over the security and figure out how to prevent these things from ever happening. To have this sort of thing happen twice in two weeks resulting in animals being killed is despicable. These poor creatures were killed for our mistakes and it's time to figure out a solution.

It's up to the zoos to determine how to fix this problem but I would suggest really looking over the security of these enclosures and their entry points first of all. Secondly, there clearly needs to be more staff on hand to monitor the actions of children and adults alike when visiting these enclosures. Let's get our shit together before more animals have to be killed for something that could have been prevented.

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