ONLINE EXCLUSIVE -
Attack on Toledo keeper rekindles debate on zoo elephants
Sunday July 11 2010
TOLEDO (MCT) - The Toledo Zoo's star elephant, "Baby Louie," isn't quite so cute these days.
Since the 7-year-old African pachyderm attacked and critically injured his trainer, Don RedFox, on July 1, zoo employees have been keeping their distance, attending to him only from behind a protective barrier.
Zoo officials and experts have been puzzling over the attack, trying to understand why it happened.
"I think it was just a fluke at this particular time," Alan Roocroft, an international expert on elephants, said last week after an initial assessment of the issue. He said it didn't appear that the 4,000-pound animal intended to seriously harm RedFox, who had worked with the animal since its birth.read more at:http://www.norwalkreflector.com/articles/2010/07/11/front/iq_1025086.txt
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