there is a lot of armchair quarterbacking in this thread. i don't know why the people who were trained to raise these animals, lived with them, LOVED them for

there is a lot of armchair quarterbacking in this thread. i don't know why the people who were trained to raise these animals, lived with them, LOVED them for years, and came to the excruciating decision to terminate them are being treated as amateurs. from my reading of this article, the decision, although difficult, would have been made exactly the same way today. the paramount concern in zoos is always human life. they knew these animals best, and they knew what they were capable of. i don't envy the keepers there that day, this will unfortunately be a cloud over their whole career/life.