Zoo dangerous-animal squads arm for a weighty responsibility
Friday, June 3, 2016 - 02:20
in Biology & Nature
When a 400-pound gorilla grabbed a 3-year-old boy at the Cincinnati Zoo, the sharpshooter who killed the ape wasn't from the police. Instead, the shooter was a specially trained zoo staffer on one of the many dangerous-animal emergency squads at animal parks nationwide.