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Originally Posted by HarryH93
Wasn't there a story very similar to this not too long ago? Somewhere in the US, I believe. Some idiots saw a baby bison and thought it would be smart to load it into their SUV because it "looked cold." The animal had to be euthanized because its herd did not cooperate when rangers tried reuniting them together. The calf kept approaching people and cars, and they thought it was way too dangerous for people and the calf.
People are really dumb.
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That idiot was a Canadian from Quebec. I read a lot of "Canadian?! Well then, a Canadian should have known better - we know cold and we know animals survive in it quite fine!" I suppose there's a level of truth to that but I also know there are people that never leave the city and don't know one thing about wild animals and how they survive and they do stupid things like put a bison calf in their vehicle. Certainly not excusing this guy, and I think he should have been fined more than he was - but perhaps that's the only fine they could give him. He's got a court date so he may end up being fined a lot more. He's very lucky the mother bison didn't curb stomp his butt.
I read somewhere, maybe it was here, that this child had repeatedly said he was going IN the exhibit to see the gorillas - sounded pretty focused on his goal and obviously he figured out how to get in. I bet he never wants to try and get into another exhibit again - or go to the zoo ever again either.
It's just such a terribly unfortunate set of circumstances all around and such a shame it ended the way it did. He was an incredibly beautiful animal.