Honestly, this may have been asked and answered a million times; I haven’t done much reading on the incident. Everything I start to skim through is pretty biased in one direction or another…which is typical.

But my only question is not in regards to the mother’s parental fitness. Rather I’m curious as to how the enclosures are set up that a human of any size was able to enter so effortlessly.

This is not a blaming question; I’m thinking back to when my kids were little and you could purchase an annual family zoo pass for 50 bucks, which made it one of our most frequent destinations for getting toddler wiggles out. When my daughter was two, she could lead a zoo tour; we went that often.

Now I think back and try to picture the enclosures, and imagine her squeezing through any of the bars, and I don’t know if she physically could have.

So maybe, definitely, time to update the enclosures. For sure.