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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3407396" data-attributes="member: 109211">I agree absolutely with this and they could have had the guns ready in case of a hostile response. Of course it would have been a risk but I am sure that getting the noisy crowd away from the enclosure would have taken the heat out of the situation.I am so sad for the loss of this animal and pretty despairing at the parenting and lack of fast-acting tranquilisers (despite the problems of deciding on dosage). What this shows is that the zoo's only response is a gunshot and that isn't good enough.Lee</blockquote>