I see some form of management oversight!
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@SivatheriumGuy, may know to comment here as he was the first to observe it in the Cabarceno thread)
I'll copy-paste what I already said in the Cabárceno thread;
"I didn't express my opinions when the leopards were released into the enclosure last month because I wanted to judge the setup when I visited the park and I saw it myself, but the instant I learned that they didn't mesh over the exhibit and that the only real security measures were the hotwire installed on the cliffside the idea of something like this happening at some point never left my mind...
Cabárceno is a very flawed park, it's a place very dear to my heart but I know very well how clumsily designed many aspects of it are. Despite this, these last years have been a breath of fresh air in the zoo; many of the facilities have had significant renovations done on them, the fencing at the park has been renovated in most exhibits, interior exhibits have been renovated for many of the species at the park, there are plans to entirely revamp outdated facilities like the reptile house and elephant indoors holding... and after so many changes to the good, this happens.
What sucks the most about this situation is that it could have been avoided if the proper thought was put into the "renovations" the exhibit went through. The enclosure the leopards resided at housed jaguars in the same setting for about 30 years, and it worked for one reason or another. When the last jaguar died, the exhibit went into what seemed like "heavy" renovation, and the announcement of the leopards was made I was expecting that the exhibit would get a roof of some sort, but for what it seems they didn't really care for this.
I can't believe they didn't do more to secure the exhibit properly. This isn't a case of something going wrong within the exhibit like maybe a tree falling and damaging the fence or a door not being properly locked, this is a case of the park not caring enough to make the changes the exhibit needed to have. Hell, these are changes the exhibit needed BACK when they still had jaguars. I'm so disappointed. I'm also shocked the EEP allowed the park to house them in this exhibit, two young male leopards living in between cliffs with some hotwire on top preventing them to get out sounds like a disaster from miles away.
It's not the first time a carnivoran has escaped an enclosure in Cabárceno, but I hope it's the last (as I have hoped in the other cases). I'm terribly sad for the leopard and I'm still shocked, annoyed and immensely disappointed on how it's all been handled."
