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Video - Baby Elephant attacks keeper - Warning!

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Post  Safari Maiden Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:39 am

Surely this raises the issue of wild animals kept in zoos!



Quoted from the Telegraph:
A video of an elephant knocking down and then pinning his trainer in a corner at an Ohio zoo has been released.

The elephant then backs away before charging at the keeper, who has been in a hospital since the attack three weeks ago.

The video was released by the Toledo Zoo and shows the keeper stumbling out of the enclosure while the elephant stands back.

The zoo's director says she's not sure why the elephant turned on the keeper, whom the elephant had known since birth.

She says it looks as if he was startled and started play-fighting like elephants do in the wild.

The injured man and his family initially fought against the video's release but changed their minds to show that the animal wasn't mistreated.
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Post  Laikipia Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:46 am

I entirely agree - wild animals should remain wild.

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Post  Anne-Marie1981 Thu Jul 22, 2010 4:39 pm

It is certainly a prime example of why they shouldn't be kept in zoo's! And as sad as it is whats happened to the keeper. why on earth was he approaching it when it was in that state! Even I can sit here and see its aggitatted. Ears flared out, likely to charge! He should have just backed off till it calmed down!!
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