Sooner or later, the Lujan Zoo in Argentina is going to get around to providing an excellent demonstration of how evolution works. This is not necessarily because the zoo does a good job of explaining the science behind it, but rather because they let people ride the animals.
Good luck with that
The full article is available here. (via Lowering the Bar)
There’s a lot to say about this, but I think all the blithering is nicely summed up by:
Just because nothing has happened yet does not mean nothing will ever happen.
This sort of thing happens all over the place — although slightly less often here in Litigation Land — and it always, always ends in idiocy. It’s just a matter of time. It wouldn’t be half the tragedy it is if looney behavior like this:
- didn’t reward the zoo management with money from eager (and often foolish) consumers,
- didn’t encourage other facilities (and the general public) to repeat this kind of behavior,
- didn’t inevitably end in some poor soul (often someone’s child) getting his/her face ripped off,
- and didn’t inevitably result in the animal(s) involved being euthanized when that happens (they must be vicious!).
I worked with the public and hand-raised wolves for ten years, very carefully supervising a lot of wolf-human interaction, and this kind of thing makes my hair stand on end. (It can be done safely, but not like this!)
Animalfeasance 