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Child mauled by tapir at Dublin Zoo!!! :(

steddyeddy

Title does what it says on the tin I'm afraid. A 2 year old girl received serious arm and stomach injuries during a "supervised visit" to a tapir enclosure at Dublin Zoo.

First of all I wish a speedy recovery to the girl involved but I have to ask what the feck was a 2 year old girl doing in an enclosure with a sometimes dangerous wild animal? The tapir has a calf in the enclosure so that makes it more dangerous to be around. Thoughts?

Edit: link attached

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/dublin-zoo-mother-and-daughter-2-recovering-after-attack-by-tapir-29485408.html

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MagicMarker

What the **** is a tapir?

anncoates

MagicMarker wrote: »

What the **** is a tapir?

Looks like an anteater mixed with a donkey.

SEPT 23 1989

http://brucekrasting.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/tapir.jpg

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Sorry she was hurt and all but she had no business being around a wild animal like that. 100% her parents (or whoever was supervising her) responsibility/fault if they lacked the common sense to keep her out of harms way. Hopefully the animal won't be destroyed, and hopefully you don't see Dublin zoo being sued for someone else's stupidity.

[Deleted User]

Wow, if true then Dublin Zoo have a lot to answer for. Chances are that the poor animal might be slaughtered now too.

Das Kitty

The tapir only had a calf a week or so ago, it seems like it was very bad timing.

Poor little toddler though, she won't forget that in a hurry.

Rented Mule

MagicMarker wrote: »

What the **** is a tapir?

It's like a tracker mortgage.

Das Kitty

The keepers do these supervised visits.

shruikan2553

How many tapir attacks are recorded each year? Cant believe i actually asked that...

The animals they use for the petting zoo type things would have been hand reared and used to humans. Although I agree that probably best to move it somewhere else if she had a calf.

Amirani

I wouldn't say the animal will be destroyed.

elfy4eva

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Sorry she was hurt and all but she had no business being around a wild animal like that. 100% her parents (or whoever was supervising her) responsibility/fault if they lacked the common sense to keep her out of harms way. Hopefully the animal won't be destroyed, and hopefully you don't see Dublin zoo being sued for someone else's stupidity.

According to the press it was a close-up encounter supervised by Zookeepers. If true it's actually zookeepers at fault here. Apparently her mother received injuries too when intervening in the attack

sweetie

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Sorry she was hurt and all but she had no business being around a wild animal like that. 100% her parents (or whoever was supervising her) responsibility/fault if they lacked the common sense to keep her out of harms way. Hopefully the animal won't be destroyed, and hopefully you don't see Dublin zoo being sued for someone else's stupidity.

read the article, it was a supervised visit.

steddyeddy

Deleted User wrote: »

Wow, if true then Dublin Zoo have a lot to answer for. Chances are that the poor animal might be slaughtered now too.

It wont be slaughtered likely. Zoos are generally sensible when it comes to animals and don't slaughter animals that are dangerous.

Nozebleed

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Wow, if true then Dublin Zoo have a lot to answer for. Chances are that the poor animal might be slaughtered now too.

Hmmmmmm....Bacon.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Supervised visit or no supervised visit, you'd want to be an absolute thick to put a tiny child in there, with a new mother/wild animal.

Jesus, even a cat would tear you asunder if you were at her kittens a week later.

steddyeddy

Dublin zoo has a lot to answer for here aswell.

Tabnabs

I'm no zoologist, but a quick google shows that Tapir attacks are not unknown and generally occur when the young are around or nearby.

http://www.igorilla.com/gorilla/animal/tapir_attack_in_Oklahoma_City_PartTwo.html

http://www.tapirs.org/news/interviews/carlosmr-echandi-interview.html

Atomic Pineapple

Indeed, the supervising Zoo keepers fault for A) Letting a two year old in with the animal in the first place and

Failing to monitor the visit enough to make sure nothing like this could happen.

No grounds for destroying the animal at all.

Oink

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Supervised visit or no supervised visit, you'd want to be an absolute thick to put a tiny child in there, with a new mother/wild animal.

Jesus, even a cat would tear you asunder if you were at her kittens a week later.

Sure what could go wrong when you put a toddler next to a 150-300 kg animal which has just given birth. There are experts around.

tapir bacon hey? mmm.....

SEPT 23 1989

This little girls life has been changed forever and i hope she will be compensated accordingly

tin79

MagicMarker wrote: »

What the **** is a tapir?

Planet express ships favourite nocturnal mammal!

sweetie

I can just imagine Tom Dunne doing the voiceover...

Mongarra

A Tapir is an animal found mainly in Central and South America and South-east Asia. It is about the size of a pig (according to RTÉ news this morning) and it resembles a small, smooth-skinned, hornless rhinoceros with a snout extended as a short trunk (or like an anteater - RTÉ news again). it is a nocturnal animal.

Chucky the tree

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Sorry she was hurt and all but she had no business being around a wild animal like that. 100% her parents (or whoever was supervising her) responsibility/fault if they lacked the common sense to keep her out of harms way. Hopefully the animal won't be destroyed, and hopefully you don't see Dublin zoo being sued for someone else's stupidity.

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Supervised visit or no supervised visit, you'd want to be an absolute thick to put a tiny child in there, with a new mother/wild animal.

Jesus, even a cat would tear you asunder if you were at her kittens a week later.

So it's clearly the zoo who are at fault here. The zoo staff are supposed to be well trained so for them to allow a mother and small child into an area where their is a mother and baby wild animal then it's a shocking mistake on the part of the zoo. I don't think the animal should be destroyed but someone in the Zoo should be sacked.

seamus

Parenting/Animals 101:

Children and wild animals do not mix.

Seriously, like. If this was a "supervised visit" organised by Dublin Zoo, then the keeper that allowed the child into the enclosure needs firing.

The injuries sound serious, but they don't sound like anything which will have any permanent effects aside from scars. Hopefully she makes a full and quick recovery.

Oink

Atomic Pineapple wrote: »

No grounds for destroying the animal at all.

I don't agree. It should be destroyed on grounds of bacon.

On the other hand, I agree. The experts should be destroyed instead.

token101

elfy4eva wrote: »

According to the press it was a close-up encounter supervised by Zookeepers. If true it's actually zookeepers at fault here. Apparently her mother received injuries too when intervening in the attack

The mother intervened? Where were the zookeepers?? Surely they'd carry a dart gun as a precaution if they're allowing the public hang around with wild animals.

Fratoue

Is the Tapir alright?

anncoates

With a bit of common sense from the zoo keepers, these attacks will hopefully tapir off.

vitani

seamus wrote: »

Parenting/Animals 101:

Children and wild animals do not mix.

Seriously, like. If this was a "supervised visit" organised by Dublin Zoo, then the keeper that allowed the child into the enclosure needs firing.

Maybe the keeper didn't have a choice. It wouldn't surprise me if management 'encouraged' them to keep supervised visits going.

Having said that, there's still no need to have a 2 year old in the enclosure though. It's older children who'd benefit more, and could be trusted to behave more respectfully. 2 year olds would be as excited by seeing cows and sheep.