So sad: Orang-Utan drowned in zoo today

[Kirsten]

With much sadness I just read an article about the tragic accident that happened in the Hagenbeck zoo of Hamburg, Germany today: Obviously a visitor tried to throw a bread roll into the enclose of the Orangs, but it fell in the water trench. 10-year-old Female Orang-Utan Leila tried to reach it and fell into the water, and sadly, she drowned. The report said that her animal keeper cried when this happened. The zoo did not find the visitor who was responsible.

Here's the article, it's German, but there's a picture of her:
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,569157,00.html


BTW, only a couple of years ago the same happened in the zoo of Hannover, when a huge male Gorilla drowned after he fell into the water ditch. He was also trying to catch some food swimming in there. I was very sad when that happened because I saw him many times when I visited the zoo.

Kirsten