Zoo Krefeld Fire at Krefeld Zoo

[vogelcommando]

Story of Massa, one of the Gorilla's lost in the fire :

German Zoo Fire: The Life and Death of Massa the Gorilla - DER SPIEGEL - International

 

[vogelcommando]

The fire - one year later :

Krefeld Zoo: Overcoming the trauma of a deadly fire | DW | 01.01.2021

 

[wally war eagle]

same situation happened at the Philadelphia Zoo years ago with higher mortalities.

 

[Batto]

same situation happened at the Philadelphia Zoo years ago with higher mortalities.

I fail to understand how this contributes in any way to the Krefeld incident?

 

[WanderingDragon]

Stating there were higher number of Great Ape deaths at Philadelphia in comparison to Krefeld is not a competition any zoo would want to win. However, it may help to realise that such an incident has happened before at other zoos, and that all these occurrences have a couple of things in common. There was nowhere with fire-proofing that the animals could at least seek some refuge, and there was not sufficient monitoring both human and remote during the night hours.

 

[Batto]

However, it may help to realise that such an incident has happened before at other zoos,

That I take as given for any rational person who wasn't born yesterday.

There was nowhere with fire-proofing that the animals could at least seek some refuge

Given the general setting of the building and the animals held within, that would have been hardly possible for most of the animals.

On a related note: as a response to allegations by P€TA regarding the welfare of the two chimpanzees that survived the fire, a representative of the Jane Goodall Instituts Global has visited and observed the two chimps, seeing no need to transport them to a Welsh chimp "sanctuary" as suggested by the animal right activists.

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