Announcing her death, Beekse Bergen - in the south of the Netherlands - said the keeper began her career there when she was 17 and had worked there on-and-off for four decades.
Damn, I would have expected handling leopards to be something you get better at with time, but these were outdoor cats dealing with bad weather, so I imagine they’re more nervous than normal
Pretty much every person I’ve heard from who works with wild animals has said the same thing: they’re always wild animals. Just because they know you today and are gentle, that can change at a moment’s notice. This sounds like a really terrible and sad incident.
Damn, I would have expected handling leopards to be something you get better at with time, but these were outdoor cats dealing with bad weather, so I imagine they’re more nervous than normal
Pretty much every person I’ve heard from who works with wild animals has said the same thing: they’re always wild animals. Just because they know you today and are gentle, that can change at a moment’s notice. This sounds like a really terrible and sad incident.
Well, dealing with people I find the same applies to the primates that wear clothes.
Also according to local press (as of two days ago so maybe not anymore) they were not sure how the containment fences failed.