About a year ago, a zookeeper at the SF Zoo was conducting a public feeding of the tigers when she got a bit careless and dangled her arm too close. The result; one of the cats ripped it off, literally. She lived, but the Zoo was held responsible for the poor design of the cages. Improvements were supposedly made.
You'd think after all that scrutiny things would be fixed. But no, a tiger escaped from its pen less than two hours ago and killed a zoo patron and injured two more before it was shot to death. The cops and fire department are busy scouring the zoo for any other loose animals; (the FD is using ladders to shine lights into the upper branches of trees)
I've never heard kind words for this zoo. It's seriously got a horrible reputation even before this incident. For one, it's located right next to the beach in SF. Now before you're thinking "oh, I'd love to live 365 days a year on a California beach", think again. It's almost always cold, chilly, foggy out there. It's never made much sense to put a zoo in that location. Always a strange place to put a bunch of tropical and warm climate animals.
This is a zoo that doesn't have elephants anymore cause two of them died under less than glamorous circumstances less than a month apart. The surviving elephants were hustled out of there and to other zoos.
They need to shut this place down.
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Originally Posted by Woolen Horde
