Cincinnati Zoo Gorilla Euthanized to Save Child.

morrismm
Sat, 04 Jun 2016 00:14:55 +0000

To me the new fences look like the ones that should have been there from the beginning! Why weren’t they? They do not obstruct the view more than the original. They do not look much,if at all, more expensive. But they DO seem to clearly prevent young children from getting through. No brainier! Except, apparently it wasn’t, until a child got through.

The original fence looks fairly easy to get through for a small child if the child is determined to. For some reason, this child was. It does not matter that for the last, whatever it was years, no child was determined enough or parents were more attentive, or whatever, that a child did not get through. This child did, easily, it seems.

The new fence will not prevent those tall enough to get over the fence. Open enclosures will have to be eliminated to guarantee no entry. So we go back to old zoos or no zoos.

Whether to have zoos or not is a different discussion.