This is bad. This makes me mad. It is bad zoo management, bad social care, and stupidity in my opinion. God it pisses me off.
A man aged 20 jumps into or broke into the lion enclosure at Santiago’s Metropolitan Zoo. First thing that pisses me off: how was he allowed to break into this enclosure? This must be due to poor systems.
Then, the took his clothes off and waited to be killed by the lions. It has all the signs of a suicide attempt.
The lions attacked and mauled him. On the orders of the zoo director, Alejandra Montalba, zookeepers shot both the lions dead.
She was following an “established protocol”. She says that the lives or people are important to her. Why should human lives be at risk in her damnable zoo in the first place?
She said the lions had to be shot because there were no fast acting tranquillisers available. Are there fast acting tranquillisers available in better zoos? I can’t find a good answer on the internet but surely there is a better solution to shooting dead two lions just because a deranged man presented himself to them to be killed by them? I have not heard of this sort of outcome at other zoos. There are better protocols.
Can’t zoos do better than this? How much of a failure is this? It is a fail on so many levels. Allowing a person to get amongst lions and then killing the lions to protect a man who wants to die. It seems mad to me.
I’d have preferred an outcome whereby the man died and the lions lived. That would have met the desires of the three participants of this tragedy: the man and the two lions.
This zoo director is no good in my opinion. Poor management.
As for the man: he is still alive but severely injured in hospital. A suicide note was found on him. This man annoys me as well but you can’t blame him if he is mentally ill but you can blame those who are meant to care for him. His actions killed two lions. I am sorry if he is mentally ill but the systems in Chile have let him and the lions down.
Dee, I have not seen this thread. I’ll deal with him asap. Sorry you had to respond to him.
You’re boring me now, Jim, with the same old dribble.
You betcha’! After over 35 years in practice, I was found to be a fraud? IDIOT!!!!
You are the fraud, Jim. Those who followed you on your expeditions described you as knowledgeable but very rude and not a people person. They hated you. Hating you supercedes any good that you could have ever done.
You are hated even by peers, Jim. Get it! You are hated!
Please get your sorry -ss out of my state and back to Texas to face whatever is waiting.
You don’t seem to be very well educated, so let me help you — as well as helping all those that have the misfortune of trying to learn anything from your relentless deceptions and misinformation. (I suspect now that someone found-out that you didn’t have the required educational background to be a nurse at one time.)
Did you know that your cats are now even spreading bird-flu? If a cat kills a bird with bird-flu it spread the bird-flu to its owners, care-takers, and all other cats in its colony.
“Cats have been implicated as potential vectors of other diseases not historically associated with felines, including SARS and H1N1 and H5N1 avian influenza as evidenced by natural and experimental infection of domestic cats (Kuiken et al., 2004; Songserm et al., 2006; Thiry et al., 2007; Anonymous, 2011). In the experimentally infected cats, excreted virus was transmitted to sentinel cats demonstrating horizontal transmission and suggesting cats can be involved in epidemiology and transmission of the virus (Kuiken et al., 2004). Cats have been infected with H5N1 through ingestion or close contact of infected birds as well as intratracheal and intra-oral infection of a human isolated virus strain (Thiry et al., 2007). Additionally, cats have been found to be subclinically infected with H5N1 (Leschnik et al., 2007) … “
Perhaps,
Avian Influenza (bird flu) forced me to leave practice, Jim.
Yes, distraction like that could have provided a temporary window to save the man but he wanted to die and now he is saved with probably life changing injuries. The fact he got in indicates a weakness in security systems.
They could have perhaps turned the vacuum cleaner on.
Something along the line of a flash bang perhaps. Considering the lions were on the man I can’t see how that would be more dangerous that firing live ammo into that mix. All zoos, well most have the containment area for the animals usually though a door. This allows access for treatment and to empty the enclosure for cleaning and maintenance.
In slight defense of the zookeepers. Who is expecting someone to jump in naked and make like a human sacrifice.