Yeah, you know, one thing about working with zoo animals and wild animals in general, is that they’re unpredictable. I think people buy exotic animals as pets thinking that they’re gonna tame them down. They’re always gonna be nice animals, but they’re wild animals and they just don’t make good pets. They have some luck with things like parrots and minor birds, I suppose. But as far as ocelots and lions and things like that, no. I had an incident happen to me when I first started to work at the Crandon Park Zoo. I was sitting in the office one noon time, eating my packed brown bag lunch, and a lady came into the office and she says, “Oh, the deer is attacking the newborn fawn over there “and it’s gonna kill it.” Well, I knew what she was talking about. She’s talking about the Costa Rican deer, which is the small subspecies that are common white tail and the male weighed, maybe 110 pounds or something like that.
