Accident in ZOO Prague and stupid people

Hi

the place where I spend my vaccation has been always great and now it is perfect, because now it offers the last thing which was missing here: WIFI so I can be online, yay!

Thanks to this, I could read the newest info and I was shocked.

ZOO Prague is one of the most respected ZOOs in the world and it is also one of the most beautiful ones.
It is both animal and visitor friendly, as animals have huge modern and very natural enclosures and people are allowed to come close to them having no problems to take photos.
ZOO very succesfully breeds many endangered species, including many sorts of animals which are critically endangered and no other ZOOs are able to breed them or to even keep them. Prague is well-known for saving Przewalsky horse, who used to be extinct in the wild and thanks to the ZOOs, especially Prague, this species is comming back to the wild (do you hear that, stupid anti-ZOO activists?).

But the main attraction of ZOO Prague is a group of lowland gorillas.
Years ago, the ZOO started a parody on reality show "The chosen ones" (the rival, but almost similar project to Big brother. Simply a group of young horny and not very inteligent people in a house full of cameras). It was called "Revealed" (= uncovered, exposured, and so on). They installed camera into the modern pavilion of gorillas and started online live broadcast.
The project got incredibly successful.
The Czechs loved gorillas and watched every their step, remembering names of all members of Prague's group.
Medias covered every event which was somehow related to gorillas, informing even about their daily routine.
When the first baby gorilla Moja was born, the people were even more excited.
The strange group of people was formed, I think it made even the ZOO and an author of the ,,Revealed project" (who later became a ZOO director) uneasy - they watch the gorillas all the time, REALLY considering them members of their OWN family, giving advices to the ZOO staff how to deal with the group and gorillas and so. I have to say they make me uneasy too I feel like slapping them to make them wake up

The people and medias are crazy about all this gorilla stuff.
When there was a stillborn baby, they bombarded the ZOO with critique and hate and also support.
When the first baby gorilla Moja grew up enough to be mature and to travel to another ZOO, the ZOO prepared many events to allow the people to say their last goodbye. The departure itself was kept as a secret, because the ZOO was nervous about those fanatican fans of gorilla group.
The media covered whole the departure and described every Moja's step in her new home and they still post info about her time to time.


But today, something tragical happened.
Moja's younger brother Tatu, who is 5 years old, had an accident. He played with a rope and unfortunately, he wrapped it around his neck and literally hanged himself.
Keepers used the water to make the gorillas go away from him - gorillas are dangerous animals and people would risk their lives if they just entered the enclosure.
The ZOO staff gave Tatu heart massage and even month to month resuscitation, but it was too late, he died.

The ZOO is pretty depressed and the press covered whole event a lot.

And of course, idiots appeared, posting comments like ,,ZOO is to blame! Those are rare animals, they should controll them 24 hours a day!" ,,who's fault it is?????? They must be punished!" ,,rope in an exhibit? That is so unnatural, ZOO is to blame!"

The ZOO says that the ropes are a need for gorillas. They need them for life. There were some similar accidents before in other ZOOs, but Prague rather controlled the ropes every day to prevent any accident. Unfortunately, Tatu was too skillful and he managed to destroy the rope, using one part to wrap it :/

I am honestly quite sure who is to blame.
Those are ZOO keepers, who did their best to prepare the most interesting, the most natural conditions for gorillas. They tried to keep the gorrilas happy, healthy and active.
If they did not do that and gorillas lived in concrete jails without any potentionally dangerous things, animals would be depressed and bored, but well... alive and save.

End of irony.


People, please. Accidents happen. Yes, also to animals. Both in the wild and in ZOOs, animals might just make a bad step and break their bones. They might fall from the branch and die. They might injure themselves a bit - but then get a serious infection.
People who watch the documents about the wild often think that animals are super mega cool and never make any mistake like they were perfectly programmed for the life.
Nope.
Just think about it - does a young cheetah (hi, TVD) catch and eat a healthy antelope? Probably not. It will probably find some old, ILL or INJURED antelope, which has a lower chance to escape. Yes. Animals make mistake also in the wild, they can injure themselves and become an easy prey. Tigers can be killed by falling rocks, baby birds fall from the nest and die.

It was no-one's fault.

Although I am not a gorilla fan, I feel the ZOO's pain and I support them and their decision to make rather interesting, nice and natural environment where animals can play, be happy and active, but where they can also somehow injure themselves. It is definitelly better than keeping unhappy animals in concrete prisons without anything to play with in a name of "safety".