If a zoo keeper gets killed by a wild animal at the zoo, why is it they kill the animal? Don't zoo keepers know this is a dangerous job when they take it?
2007-02-28 06:57:56 · 9 answers · asked by fluffyorangekat 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Me and a co-worker have constant arguements over animals. The Denver situation is what sparked it this time around.
2007-02-28 07:18:39 · update #1
Actually, in most situations they don't kill the animal. If the animal was following its natural instincts and killed a human who either wasn't where they were supposed to be, or presenting behaviour that makes them appear as prey to a predatory animal, then the animal is not usually destroyed.
In the Denver situation, as someone already mentioned, the leopard would not let go of the woman, and the leopard was killed in the process of trying to save the zookeeper. It wasn't put down simply because it 'caught the taste of man'.
I know of at least one situation where a zookeeper was killed by a tiger in Florida. Rather than having the animal put down, they actually performed dentistry on the tiger to replace the tooth that shattered when it bit the zookeeper. Built him a spiffy looking titanium implant.
Zookeepers do know it is a dangerous job. For the most part, they accept the risks, and know that they are dealing with animals that might cause them injury. I know another zookeeper who lost a finger when a zebra bit her glove and yanked when they were trying to innoculate it.
Most zookeepers would argue vehemently against destroying an animal just because it happened to injure someone, unless it was due to disease or some other factor.
2007-02-28 08:57:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When an animal in a zoo kills once the chance of it killing again is a lot higher.The animal knows that he got away with it once and, unless permanently stopped, will seek a way to have a repeat performance. As a fur trapper in the far north of Ontario, I had been stalked by this 1 ear-tagged bear about a dozen times in 3 years. He had been removed from garbage dumps and town 2 - 3 times and flown out, settling (so it seems to me) on my trapline. He is the only bear on my line I do not trust . I also donot go unarmed for that reason . I should have put him down . but... I like his attitude.
"I GO WHERE I WANT.....DO WHAT I WANT."
In a zoo one can't have that attitude. There are other lives at stake And the zoo's exinstance would be another factor. They would be shut down if due diligence were not enforced.
2007-02-28 07:24:28 · answer #2 · answered by reinformer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Zoo keepers do know that it is a dangerous job. Personally, I think it is wrong to creat zoos in the first place, and I don't visit them. I wouldn't want to be caged for observation or entertainment.
They usually kill the animal on the idea that it may kill other humans after killing the first one.
2007-02-28 07:16:13 · answer #3 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Animals often carry seeds of flora or perhaps even a tree seed and disperse them places. They consume insects that could desire to be risky and this is in simple terms the circle of existence each and every thing ends up in a diverse in the completed image...their manure possibly helps for fertalizer, I examine someplace that in the time of the rainforest in case you do away with one species it could have a risky consequence on the tree fantastically if it has end result from time to time it won't have any fruit because of the fact it has to evolve to a clean replace of no help from even a small ingredient like a gnat which yet another animal eats which yet another one does that helps the tree so the others lose the foodchain.
2016-10-02 03:06:16 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the animal was coming after the people going into save the zoo keeper....we don't need anymore deaths that day
2007-02-28 07:09:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lawsuits.
Once an animal has show that it has a tendency to attack people, then the animal is assumed to be "inherently dangerous" -- meaning that if the animal ever attacks anyone again, then the animal's owner is automatically liable for any damages or deaths that the animal causes. The so-called "one bite" rule.
2007-02-28 07:13:30 · answer #6 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The concern is the animal got the taste of the kill and may build on it.
It's a tough way, but higher safety.
And you can't let the animal go in the wild be cause it has learned to be fed and doesn't need to defend itself.
2007-02-28 07:04:47 · answer #7 · answered by BILL@CA 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are referring on what just happened in Denver, Colorado. It was because the leopard had a pretty good hold on the zookeeper and wouldn't release her. So to save the woman's life they had to kill the leopard.
2007-02-28 07:07:51 · answer #8 · answered by kim_in_craig 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the animal can cause damage to another person.
they should know that right when they start working there or even before.
2007-02-28 07:05:25 · answer #9 · answered by Paige N 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋