• HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    Thanks for digging further! A miscommunication resulting in her entering the enclosure at the wrong time sounds totally plausible.

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      It’s very relevant to my interests, so I’ve been reading what I can find on it. I don’t personally work with animals this dangerous, but I know what we do to contain the animals we do have, and I love touring facilities and talking to people that work with these larger animals to see how it works, and it seems like a very strange thing to have occurred.

      I couldn’t imagine this happening to one of the senior staff of the center I’m at. We’re always looking for ways to keep things safe for ourselves and the animals, because nobody wants to see something like this happen. 🥺 She spent almost her whole adult life caring for these animals, and I’m sure some of her last words were her asking that nothing bad happen to them because of this. It makes me sad to see some of the sarcastic comments made about the situation in some of these posts.