African wild dog exhibit

I like this exhibit, since you can come very close to the animals. It's not the best in the world, but it's good.

Are appearances deceptive here? It looks like a determined dog could easily escape this enclosure. The moat is narrow and could be jumped over, and that low fence wouldn't keep a wing-clipped bantam hen in, let alone an African hunting dog.

I thought that too, it is quite narrow and there's not much stopping people getting close to the dogs too.

It's a water moat with a sheer wall on the visitor side--probably about a 3 meter wide horizontal barrier (the photo is a little deceptive).

I've seen this in person, I just think it's a very minimal barrier for such dangerous animals.

ashley-h said:

I've seen this in person, I just think it's a very minimal barrier for such dangerous animals.

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Wasn't it you who thought I was overly-critical of the photo of a puma being led on a leash through the public at RSCC? Pumas kill people every year in North America--I've never heard of a wild dog attacking--much less killing--a person, ever. I've seen similar barriers for wolves at many zoos--they don't jump particularly well, and the sheer wall prevents them from climbing out

Took that a bit personally lol.
I've worked with both wild dogs and wolves, and I can assure you that wild dogs wouldn't think twice about tearing a person to shreds, they're very aggressive. Wolves are not. And I do think you're over critical of the RSCC, I just made an observation that this seemed like quite a minimal way to keep such dangerous animals contained, that's all.