Lessons to learn from frequent zoo attacks

Visitors observe lion and tiger cubs at the Nantong Forest Safari Park in East China's Jiangsu province, on Oct 1, 2020. The fatal attack on a zookeeper by a tiger at a zoo in Anhui province on Sunday should force us to take a long, hard look at the surging zoo industry and the tragic incidents caused by poor management. All too often we see - yet still fail to learn - that laxity in zoo management, especially when it comes to wild animals, brings tragedy to both them and us. Two brown bears from Whipsnade Zoo in Dunstable, the United Kingdom, were shot and killed after escaping from a zoo enclosure just two days ago, to protect people and other animals. They can still attack someone if they feel threatened or hungry and are still unpredictable, like many of the sad zoo attack stories show.