>> Reporter: WE LOVE TO HAVE
ANIMALS AROUND THIS IS PART OF
WHO WE'RE THE LAST COUPLE OF
HAPPENS AT ZOOS.
THE WORLD ZOOS.
I WANTED RON BACK INFORM THANK
YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
THIS HAS BEEN A SOUL SEARCHING
TIME FOR YOU AND YOUR STAFF.
THIS HAS BEEN HORRIBLE TO WATCH
ESPECIALLY IN CINCINNATI WITH A
GORILLA BEING SHOT.
>> A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
TERRIBLE FOR THE GORRILACE FIRST
AND FOREMOST.
GET KILLED.
POINT.
THAT'S HOW A ZOO DIRECTOR.
MORNING PROCESS THE,
GRANDMOTHERILACE GO THROUGH.
WE ARE PART OF THE ANIMAL
KENNING DOM IT SHOULD NOT
SURPRISE PEOPLE THAT THEY HAVE
SIMILAR EMOTIONS TO WHAT WE HAVE
THIS IS PROVEN SCIENTIFICALLY.
BUT HUMAN WILDLIFE CONFLICT GOOS
ZOOS.
WE WERE NEPAL HELPING
THIS.
THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT VIEW.
A TIGER WELL KILLED 10 PEOPLE IN
THE WILD.
NOBODY INCLUDING THE GOVERNMENT
WANTS TO KILL THE TIGER THEY
WANT TO FIGURE OUT WAYS TO LIVE
WITH WILDLIFE.
DO.
>> EXACTLY.
WE CAN'T SANITIZE NATURE AND WE
SHOULDN'T TRY.
BUT MAKE SURE PEOPLE ARE SAFE.
OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE EXPECTING TO
SAFE AT A ZOO.
BUT WE ALSO HAVE SITUATIONS
WHERE THEY ARE FREAK ACCIDENTS.
MILLIONS HAVE GONE TO THAT
EXHIBIT AT THE CINCINNATI ZOO
AND NOTHING HAPPENED.
>> I KNOW YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO
SPONDE
SPON
RESPONDED I AM NOT SURE YOU WERE
SURETY BOY WAS IN TROUBLE THEY
COULDN'T TAKE THAT RISK?
>> THEIR POLICY IS THE SAME AS
LIFE.
HAVING SAID THAT I DID NOT SEE
ANYTHING TO SUGGEST THE GORILLA
CHILD.
KID WOULD HAVE CLIMBED ON THE
BACK OF THE MALE AND WOULD HAVE
BEEN SAFE.
I THINK THE GORILLA WAS TRYING
TO PROTECT HIM.
SQUARED BY THE SCREAMING PEOPLE
BUT THE UNINTENDED POSSIBILITY
OF THE CHILD BEING SERIOUSLY
HURT OR KILLED WAS THERE.
>> WE SAW THE GUY WHO I GUESS
TRYING TO COMMIT SUED THROWING
HIMSELF IN THE LION'S DEN AND
THEY KILLED THE LION.
ACCESSIBILITY.
WE USED TO HAVE IN THE REALLY
HORRIBLE DAYS IT WAS WE STAND
BACK AND WATCH IT IN A CAGE
WHICH WAS NOT PLEASURABLE.
>> A PRISON.
>> NOW AS WE TRIED TO BREAK
DOWN THE EMBARRASS AND THE WALLS
THAT'S WHERE OUR INTERSECTION
EMERSION.
BUT STILL IT IS SAFER THAN IF
YOU GO IN THE WILD.
TRYING TO CREATE THAT EMERSION
MEANS YOU STOP BUILDING
FORTRESSES THAT YOU DON'T PUT
ANIMALS BEHIND BAR THEY ARE NOT
GETTY OR DANGEROUS.
GORRILACE ARE NOT DANGEROUS.
YOU KNOW, GOING BACK 50 YEAR
WOULD BE A TERRIBLE THING FOR
ANIMALS AND PEOPLE.
>> Reporter: WE HAD A COUPLE OF
EVENTS NOT IN ZOOS BUT SHOWED US
THE DANGEROUS WORLD THAT STILL
EXISTS THE BOY THE AL GATOR ON A
FAMILY VACATION WHICH STILL TOO
HORRIBLE TO THINK ABOUT.
THEN A JAGUAR A PART OF THE
CEREMONY FOR LIGHTING THE TAUPE
IN BRAZIL AND GETS LOOSE AND
THEY SHOOT IT.
BOTH THESE SHOW -- WE ARE REALLY
IN A STRANGE PLACE WITH THE WAY
BEHAVE.
>> INN UNUSUAL NUMBER OF THE
STRANGE INCIDENTS WITH THE GATOR
I THINK IT IS OBVIOUS GIVEN THE
SIZE OF THE GATOR IT WAS NOT
TRYING TO PURIDATE ON THE CHILD
IT WAS PROBABLY STARTLED BITE
CHILD RUNNING NEAR IT OR
POSSIBLY ON IT.
NEVER THELESS A TERRIBLE
TRAGEDY.
FLORIDA.
SO WE HAVE TO REMEMBER AND PLUS
THERE ARE LARGE PYTHONS AND SOME
OF THOSE WERE THEY WERE PETS.
PEOPLE RELEASED THEM.
NOT A GREAT IDEA.
>> A TIBL IDEA TO HAVE AS A
MASCOT A JAGUAR OR ELEMEN
LEOPARD.
THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED
THE ANIMAL SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN
PART OF THIS.
THAT'S WHAT THE RIO COMMITTEED.
WE WATCHED TWO WEEKS AGO THE ZOO
ANNOUNCED THEY WERE CLOSING.
THERE MAY HAVE BEEN MOAN ISSUES
THEY ARE TRYING TO SORT OF --
MAKE A VIRTUE OUT OF THIS.
I GUESS IT RAISES THE QUESTION.
SHOULD WE HAVE ZOOS?
>> WE SHOONT HAVE BAD ZOOS.
IF WE DO HAVE ZOOS THEY SHOULD
CERTAINLY BE IN THE PROCESS OF
MAJOR REENGINE OOERG I THINK IS
HAPPENING IN THE STATES WITH A
CREDITED ZOOS EMPLOYEES YOUR
VIEWER DON'T KNOW THERE ARE 10
TIMES AS MANY ROADSIDE ZOOS AS A
CREDITED.
YOU GOT PRETTY AWFUL SITUATIONS.
IT IS SEDUCTIVE.
THE IDEA THAT YOU COME AND HOLD
A TIGER OR BEAR CUB.
THERE IS MAJOR EFFORT GOING ON
IN WASHINGTON TO CHANGE THIS.
WE HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WAY NUMBER
OF OTHERS.
SOCIETY ANSWER S THE FUTURE OF
ZOOS HOPEFULLY THEY BECOME
KAFRNTH IARIES A PLACE THAT IS
SAFE FOR PEOPLE AND ANIMALS AND
WHERE THERE IS A GOOD QUALITY OF
LIFE FOR ANIMALS.
THERE ARE LOTS OF OLD ZOOS THAT
ARE NOT THERE.
IS IT A RESOURCE ISSUE?
OF COURSE.
IF ANGIO TINA IS WILLING TO
SPEND PERHAPS THEY COULD CREATE
A GREAT ZOO.
>> Reporter: I LEARN A TON WHEN
I TALK TO YOU.
GREAT TO HAVE YOU THANK YOU.
HEART OF DETROIT IS NEXT THEN