Twelve Dead, Zoo Animals Loose After Floods

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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/eight-dead...l?vp=1#3nEvslS

This is terrible news for everybody, after a big flood in Georgia a number of animals escaped! Three zoo workers are among the dead, and 10 more people are missing, unfortunately 20 wolves, eight lions, white tigers, tigers, jackals, jaguars have either been shot dead by special forces or are missing. Apparently only 3 out of 17 penguins survived. A hippopotamus was videod too on the loose

[Hoka Inumuta]

That's really awful. I feel bad for the people that died and animals likewise.

Also I thought this was the state Georgia, not the country.

[2hot4you]

The head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Ilia II, was quoted by Interfax as telling a mass that Georgia's former Communist rulers could be seen as being involved in the disaster.
He said: "When Communists came to us in this country, they ordered that all crosses and bells of the churches be melted down and the money used to build the zoo," he said.
"The sin will not go without punishment.

That part is interesting as fuck, but I digress. Maybe keeping wild animals on display in densely populated areas prone to flooding isn't such a great idea after all =/

[Puupi]

That part is interesting as fuck, but I digress. Maybe keeping wild animals on display in densely populated areas prone to flooding isn't such a great idea after all =/

Maybe keeping wild animals on display at all isn't such a great idea. Zoos should be closed. Only reason some zoos should exist is for conservatory reasons or scientific research, not for amusement. If you want to see gorgeous animals, watch a BBC documentary, no need to cage animals for that.

[Nadiru]

A hippo got loose? Run, leave all your valuables behind. Hippos are fucking terrifying.

[Zantos]

That is terrible. How could a flood do all that? Did they not have measures in place?

[Puupi]

That is terrible. How could a flood do all that? Did they not have measures in place?

Yeah that sounds weird to me, too. I guess they were just behind walls (no ceiling) and floated over those walls during the flood

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Maybe keeping wild animals on display at all isn't such a great idea. Zoos should be closed. Only reason some zoos should exist is for conservatory reasons or scientific research, not for amusement. If you want to see gorgeous animals, watch a BBC documentary, no need to cage animals for that.

You can't have conservation without funding and zoos play an important in that. You can bitch about zoos all you want but fact remains without them a number of animals would be extinct. Zoos provide education, funding and a safe haven for breeding endangered animals

[Zantos]

Yeah that sounds weird to me, too. I guess they were just behind walls (no ceiling) and floated over those walls during the flood

Now endangered and rare animals are being killed left and right and civilians are in danger from the animals. Its a lose/lose situation. Especially since it seems that trained professionals are not the ones going after the animals. Then you have the ones missing having the possibility of introducing an invasive species into the habitat there.

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Maybe keeping wild animals on display at all isn't such a great idea. Zoos should be closed. Only reason some zoos should exist is for conservatory reasons or scientific research, not for amusement. If you want to see gorgeous animals, watch a BBC documentary, no need to cage animals for that.

Only way they are going to get any kind of funding is from the zoo and charging admission. Not a lot of places care to just drop tons of money on conservation. Its also a lot easier to protect an animal in a limited area then in the wild, in its natural habitat. The more zoo's, the more room there is to protect and grow a species population.

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That is terrible. How could a flood do all that? Did they not have measures in place?

I believe the water damaged the bars/doors thus how they escaped. It was probably an under maintained zoo, doubtful it will reopen

[Veluren]

I believe the water damaged the bars/doors thus how they escaped. It was probably an under maintained zoo, doubtful it will reopen

I interned at a Zoo for my vet degree, even ours here in Tennessee (relatively new and still growing) was horribly under-maintained, it seems like a lot of construction materials they get is either low quality or in bad condition. About the only quality stuff they get is the food and cleaning supplies. The actual Zoo system feels like a bit of afterthought, so it wouldn't surprise me if it was shoddy building that caused this to happen the way it did.

It's a shame but most of those animals will probably have to be terminated, if they don't die off from being domesticated and not knowing how t live in the wild they can repopulate, then we'll have a dangerous species out in the woods who have been bred or trained to associate humans with food and handouts and thus lost their fear. And I don't exactly see the government caring enough to have them non-lethally neutralized and transferred to a new Zoo.

[RaoBurning]

This feels like the gritty/realist/European reboot of Jumanji—tragic and totally humorless.

A hippo got loose? Run, leave all your valuables behind. Hippos are fucking terrifying.

The only animal Steve Irwin was afraid of, as I recall.

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Did the flood or the Zoo animals kill people?

The head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Ilia II, was quoted by Interfax as telling a mass that Georgia's former Communist rulers could be seen as being involved in the disaster.
He said: "When Communists came to us in this country, they ordered that all crosses and bells of the churches be melted down and the money used to build the zoo," he said.
"The sin will not go without punishment.
"I am very sorry that Georgians fell so that a zoo was built at the expense of destroyed churches."

Wow.....................

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A hippo got loose? Run, leave all your valuables behind. Hippos are fucking terrifying.

Unsure if sarcastic but hippos kill more people in Africa than any other animal and can bite a crocodile in two

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Did the flood or the Zoo animals kill people?

It's unknown at the moment

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It's unknown at the moment

I bet the flood.

[Grindfactor]

Love how they tried to turn it into a religious rambling shit at the end... gah people just dont know when to stop ...

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I bet the flood.

I don't know, depends how severe. It's not unlikely an animal killed somebody out of fear or by accident

[ParanoiD84]

Hmm wild animals back in the wild I like the sound of that, to bad the filthy humans will probably kill them.

[Deleted]

Hmm wild animals back in the wild I like the sound of that, to bad the filthy humans will probably kill them.

Pretty sure lions tigers hippos and jaguars aren't native to Georgia

[Polyxo]

If we catch them, can we keep them?