As some of you may have read on FB, we visited the Belgrade Zoo last week. The kids had a good time but it was an interesting experience. The animals are in cages and on concrete - it was very unamerican as zoos go. To be honest it was pretty sad. One of the things that was really shocking to Jen and I was how easy it would be to get in the animal enclosures. Most of them were bars or fence - thats all that seperated your childs hand from the lions and wolves. The bear enclosures were insane. The bears wer below you in a concrete pit sort of thing and all that seperated you from the bears was a 2 1/2 foot wall. Kids were sitting on the wall and looking down. It was crazy, if they survive the fall then they were dinner for a bear. We were "lucky" to be there at feeding time. Which consisted of a guy pushing a cart full of raw meet and just flinging it over the top of the cages - again all I can say was insane. Anyway as we left Jen and I kind of joked about how we had not heard of anyone getting hurt at the zoo. I chalked it up to winter - now that people were out, it was bound to happen. 1 week later :
BELGRADE -- A man has suffered serious injuries at the Belgrade Zoo today, when he got inside the elephant enclosure.
B92 has learned that the accident happened when the man tried to rescue a child that had fallen inside the enclosure.
The child is said to be his grandchild, and has not been hurt.
When the man got inside the enclosure, the elephant attacked him.
A Belgrade Emergency Center spokesman said that the man suffered serious internal injuries, and also rib fractures. He is said to be stable after the surgery.
Welcome to Belgrade!
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Zoos are what you make them! Don't stick finger through fences to get bitten. The petting zoo used to feature baby polar bears. An IMBer child who used to live in Beograd years ago received a bite on the hand. The camels will lean over the wall and bite you. The elephants who steal you food with their trunks. Sadly, a few years ago a young Serb who was drunk at from the "Beer Fest" did fall in and was found the next day. Better not to get close to dangerous things!
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