Why is everyone assuming the lion is hungry and trying to eat the child? I've seen domestic cats have this same behavior around windows, shower doors, mirrors, etc, a million times (just on a smaller scale). Chances are very good she is just trying to investigate what she thinks she can reach and just can't quite get there (remember the saying "curiosity killed the cat"?). She only has her paws and mouth as instruments to investigate, so that's what she's using. I trust the people at the zoo take good care of the lion and make sure she's fed adequately (I see no ribs and she appears to be very muscular and healthy). While it would still be a very bad idea to just toss the baby in the cage directly (mainly due to sheer size difference), it does not appear as if the lion is desperately trying to eat the baby - just curious and trying to investigate it - and obviously getting frustrated with the glass.
Are you people really ignorant to the fact that animals have escaped and attacked people in zoos? Why provoke them and with your own baby? Disgusting!!! Is that really a risk you would take with your own child ? If you would, you too are a total idiot who does not deserve to be a parent.
Escaped through a bullet proof glass? Really? When did that happen? When did a bullet proof glass ever ever allowed a 400 pound animal escape? Zoos use the same glass as for swimming pools for polars. If that glass can with stand tons and tons of weight it will be fine for a 400 pound lion. Wow!
You must be a simple person, how is that lion going to hurt the child through the plexiglass ? The lion is just pawing at an image, it couldn't smell the child, so it doesn't know if it's food or not, wake up.
Overprotective, overreactive, narcissistic parents are the reason we have a generation of hypochondriac, thin-skinned, germaphobic, overly sensitive kids.
no worries...its part of evolution...hopefully significant majority of our intellectually lacking (or even just common sense) fellow humans will not make it to the next cycle.
I'm outraged! What kind of people would be so cruel to a hungry lion by dangling such a tasty morsel right in front of her face? So close, and yet so far away.
Oh no, the cat may come through the glass, run for your lives!!!
You people act like an architect wouldn't of planned for the animal jumping on the walls of his enclosure. Like they used concrete on the walls and light bulb glass on the window.
And we wonder why children have ceased being rugged and become hot house flowers.
Yes and you car can probably go over 100 MPH on our modern highway but one shouldn't arbitrarily test the limits. In this case, you'd be surprised what a female lion could do to that glass and its support structure if it started repeatedly hitting it. What zoologists, civil engineers, and architects frequently don't consider is people taunting the animals which is what is occurring here. Some examples: the tigers in the San Francisco Zoo being shot with a pellet gun by intoxicated teenagers. The moat and barrier had worked just fine for decades until that happened. Circa 1970, also in CA, a man enraged a male lion just by continuing to yell at it and eventually the lion jumped and clawed up the side of a 30' stone wall, grabbed the man and took him into the pit. The lions ripped him to pieces and partially ate him. The zoo I worked at required the male lions to just jump 25' over his moat and then clear a 5' high barrier to reach the general public. We certainly tried to keep them content with their situation.
Exactly. I don't know who would ever think this is funny. Taunting a fierce, wild animalis just moronic. Incase these people dont know there have been cases where these animals escape and attack people.
I wonder what sort of parent would allow this? I wonder how the photographer would feel watching the Lion attempt to eat HIS face? I would fine them for being stupid.
This is why our country is sinking into socialist hell- why would you fine these people, do you think that government has a right to do this? If that is government you want then move to cuba.
DTho310 This has nothing to do with socialism. God Lordy. I am as liberal as the next liberal but the comments freaking out about the glass breaking or the child being afraid is crazy. The glass is bullet proof. It is the same glass zoos use for the under water viewing. If that glass can handle tons and tons of water weight and polars pushing off from the glass it can handle a 400 pound lion. As for the baby? The baby has no concept of fear of animals at that stage of its life. Please get a grip.
All the people putting negative things about this video are ignorant, plain and simple. The kid wasn't scared at all, I don't know about you but when I see a baby like that that is scared, he's balling his eyes out, not sitting there watching with amusement and curiosity.
On another note parents that are extremely overly protective (a few commented on this video) are only saying the things they're saying because they're the types who are scared for their kids to eat certain foods and learn certain things at school. I have an aunt like that and her children are 10 times more messed up than kids who have regular parents that aren't ridiculously overbearing.
It's understandable to be protective with your offspring, but their needs to be a limit or you might as well put them in a plastic bubble for the rest of their life.
Lastly, that glass is built not to break, if it wasn't, the zoos would be shut down for being unfit for public use and safety. The few times there has been an incident at a zoo were isolated. It's like saying because a plane crashes all of them are going to crash. Learn to think with a little common sense.
I think you wanted to say "bawling his eyes out" - balling your eyes out is quite a different thing (OK, I'm a grammer Nazi, can't help myself). Also, let's all brush up on "Their, There, and They're, shall we? :o)
I think the parents' behavior reveals their immaturity, and possibly a bit of a cruel streak. Why would anyone want to see a lion trying to prey on a child?
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smell the child, so it doesn't know if it's food or not, wake up.
Babies raising babies.
No wonder America is swirling the toilet bowl.
You people act like an architect wouldn't of planned for the animal jumping on the walls of his enclosure. Like they used concrete on the walls and light bulb glass on the window.
And we wonder why children have ceased being rugged and become hot house flowers.
This has nothing to do with socialism. God Lordy. I am as liberal as the next liberal but the comments freaking out about the glass breaking or the child being afraid is crazy. The glass is bullet proof. It is the same glass zoos use for the under water viewing. If that glass can handle tons and tons of water weight and polars pushing off from the glass it can handle a 400 pound lion. As for the baby? The baby has no concept of fear of animals at that stage of its life. Please get a grip.
On another note parents that are extremely overly protective (a few commented on this video) are only saying the things they're saying because they're the types who are scared for their kids to eat certain foods and learn certain things at school. I have an aunt like that and her children are 10 times more messed up than kids who have regular parents that aren't ridiculously overbearing.
It's understandable to be protective with your offspring, but their needs to be a limit or you might as well put them in a plastic bubble for the rest of their life.
Lastly, that glass is built not to break, if it wasn't, the zoos would be shut down for being unfit for public use and safety. The few times there has been an incident at a zoo were isolated. It's like saying because a plane crashes all of them are going to crash. Learn to think with a little common sense.