Escaped Chimp shot dead
The Sun, Sunday September 30, 2007
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007450412,00.html
Summary:
Yesterday, just after 10 am two chimpansees, named Jonnie and Coco escaped from their enclosure at Whipsnade zoo. Coco was quickly recaptured, but Jonnie wasn’t, staff ended up having to shoot Jonnie. People at the zoo were evacuated to safe areas or told to remain in their cars untill it was clear that the chimpansee enclosures were secure and the zoo was once again safe for the general public. No other animals or humans have been injured or killed in this incident, nor have any people been in danger.
An official investigation is underway to find out how this happened.
Opinion:
Bokito was potentially a ‘public safety hazard’ during his little eh, ‘walk around the zoo’ a while back. In fact Bokito is probably potentially more dangerous; male gorillas are much larger and stronger then chimpansees, yet Bokito was easily sedated and recaptured. This English zoo may have to revise policy and buy some sedatives to ‘knock out’ rather then kill any escapees. Maybe there is a reason for their conduct, but the article fails to mention it, which is a shortcoming really.
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Really killing was not the best option for knocking out this animal. There must be an explanations of this I think, otherwise it is not the way treating animals in a zoo when they escape. They are actually prisoners for nothing, so we have to be more carefull with them.
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