[kipperfan]

Originally Posted by Matata

Wild animals are all about intimidation and actively avoid conflict. When you live in a world of no medi-care and an infected cut could kill you, you pick your fights very, very carefully.



If a man jumped over that rail, got to the boy first and started waving his arms around, screamed at the dogs, threw a rock or two, etc., then there is a very real chance the dogs would have backed off long enough for the zoo keepers to keep things under control. Humans may not be that tough, but we have all the tools needed to be excellent bluffers (tall, loud, we can control our emotional state and throw stuff).



nature is all about balls.

These aren't really wild animals though, they live their lives around people and loud humans created noises. "Scaring them off" would likely be 100x different then trying to scare off animals in the wild.