Jaguar escapes at Audobon Zoo, kills 6 animals (1 Viewer)

here's the escape route
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More details from presser today

Valerio, the 5-foot-long, 160-pound jaguar, escaped through ‘incredibly small’ hole before deadly rampage

Valerio the jaguar escaped through ‘incredibly small’ hole before deadly rampage

(Via WWL TV)

EMERGENCY PLAN ACTIVATED
There are no cameras at the jaguar exhibit, so Burks said staff will likely never know how long Valerio was out of his enclosure before a staffer spotted him loose about 7:20 a.m. Saturday after he “heard animals in distress.”
Within two minutes, staffers began to activate the zoo’s emergency protocols. That included a veterinarian mixing a non-lethal cocktail of drugs to knock out Valerio.
By 7:25 a.m., staffers formed a perimeter around Valerio. The vet fired off the first dart 10 minutes later. The drugs, though, failed to sedate the jaguar as quickly as zoo staff hoped.
“Because it was going slower than we intended, we made the decision to add another immobilizing dart” Burks said.
By 7:43 a.m., Valerio lay on the ground, at which point staffers walked up and “prodded” him with a stick. By 8:04 a.m. he was locked inside the jaguar facility once again.
IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED
Burks said that once Valerio was locked up, staff began a top-to-bottom inspection of the jaguar habitat, which also houses a female jaguar that did not escape.
That’s when they found the roughly 8-by-10-inch hole at the top of a 16-foot-tall concrete column in the middle of the exhibit that they believe Valerio squeezed through to briefly gain his freedom.
 
More details from presser today

Valerio, the 5-foot-long, 160-pound jaguar, escaped through ‘incredibly small’ hole before deadly rampage

Valerio the jaguar escaped through ‘incredibly small’ hole before deadly rampage

(Via WWL TV)

You know the female didn't escape. How else would she have nagged the sheet out of Valerio when he got back?

Did you get milk? Where's my sauce, you don't I don't eat emu without the sauce. Have you fixed that hole in the fence yet? Wait, why are you all woozy - are you drunk? Did you go drinking while you were out?? Did you get in trouble at work? I swear that zookeeper is going to fire you if you don't do a better job.
 
Did you get milk? Where's my sauce, you don't I don't eat emu without the sauce. Have you fixed that hole in the fence yet? Wait, why are you all woozy - are you drunk? Did you go drinking while you were out?? Did you get in trouble at work? I swear that zookeeper is going to fire you if you don't do a better job.
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By 7:43 a.m., Valerio lay on the ground, at which point staffers walked up and “prodded” him with a stick. By 8:04 a.m. he was locked inside the jaguar facility once again.
IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED

I'm hoping they are working to improve the "walk up and prod him with a STICK" portion of the emergency plan. My God is that still the best method to tell if someone or something is dead or knocked out? Did they come up with this plan while watching an old movie, "he's dead alright".
 
I'm hoping they are working to improve the "walk up and prod him with a STICK" portion of the emergency plan. My God is that still the best method to tell if someone or something is dead or knocked out? Did they come up with this plan while watching an old movie, "he's dead alright".

Do you have any better ideas? First dart shot did not work. They wanted to take no chances after the second shot. Make sure that Jag is knocked out. Never doubt stick trick.
 
I'm hoping they are working to improve the "walk up and prod him with a STICK" portion of the emergency plan. My God is that still the best method to tell if someone or something is dead or knocked out? Did they come up with this plan while watching an old movie, "he's dead alright".

That's still industry standard - we haven't developed those Star Trek health scanners yet.

From the manual:
1. To determine if the animal is immobilized, prod with stick.
2. After concluding that the animal is immobilized, proceed to confirming the animal is alive by holding a mirror to the animal's nose. If the mirror gets foggy, the animal is breathing and, therefore, alive.
 
That's still industry standard - we haven't developed those Star Trek health scanners yet.

From the manual:
1. To determine if the animal is immobilized, prod with stick.
2. After concluding that the animal is immobilized, proceed to confirming the animal is alive by holding a mirror to the animal's nose. If the mirror gets foggy, the animal is breathing and, therefore, alive.
step 3
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That's still industry standard - we haven't developed those Star Trek health scanners yet.

From the manual:
1. To determine if the animal is immobilized, prod with stick.
2. After concluding that the animal is immobilized, proceed to confirming the animal is alive by holding a mirror to the animal's nose. If the mirror gets foggy, the animal is breathing and, therefore, alive.

The day jaguars learn to play dead we're screwed. I, for one, will welcome our new jaguar overlords.
 
I went today. Except for the empty exhibits and all the letters posted outside, it is business as usual. That wire they used at the top of the exhibit is ridiculous. He has ledges where he had no choice but to be up against that wire.
 
I went today. Except for the empty exhibits and all the letters posted outside, it is business as usual. That wire they used at the top of the exhibit is ridiculous. He has ledges where he had no choice but to be up against that wire.

Did you make your peace?
 
I went today. Except for the empty exhibits and all the letters posted outside, it is business as usual. That wire they used at the top of the exhibit is ridiculous. He has ledges where he had no choice but to be up against that wire.

Are they going to fix the damn thing or use the cage as a tourist attraction? Ron Foreman knows how to make a quick buck.
 

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