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12-19-2014, 06:27 AM( This post was last modified: 12-19-2014, 06:31 AM by brotherbear )
That goes along with the "Predator World" incident, where a grizzly escaped his enclosure but rather than run off away from the zoo, he followed his nose straight to the tiger enclosure where he killed a tigress. ~http://bigcatrescue.org/missouri-tigers/ A day later, three tigers critically injured a 16-year old boy at Predator World near Branson. The teenage employee had entered the tiger enclosure to take a picture.
That wasn’t the first problem at Predator World. A 2007 U.S. Department of Agriculture report noted that a grizzly bear previously had escaped its enclosure and killed a tiger.
The Wesa-A-Geh-Ya operation is even more worrisome. It is home to 44 tigers, 11 lions, seven Arctic wolves and other exotic animals, most of them kept in chain-link cages. In 2003, the operation surrendered its USDA license to exhibit the animals after a USDA investigation into the lack of medical treatment for a sick lion and a bear. The operation’s owners also have been cited for failing to lock cages properly.