The other tragedy in Ukraine: animals in zoos and shelters are getting killed. So are their keepers
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- 03 Oct 2022
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It’s just one catastrophe out of many, many crises unfolding in Ukraine. With the falling bombs, the constant shelling of civilian areas, and the unceasing gunfire, the invasion has produced more tragedies than anyone could even imagine a month ago. Among the calamity, there’s also the drama of Ukraine’s animals.
A horrendous shock
They have no place to run, no place to hide, and no way to understand what is going on — the animals in Ukraine’s bombed cities are going through absolute hell (much like the humans around them).
Horace the Asian elephant in Kyiv is so shocked that he had to be put on sedatives and requires round-the-clock attention. Zebras are panicking so hard because of the shelling that at some point, they were running straight into the fences and had to be moved inside. Lemur mothers are so traumatized that they abandon their newborns, leaving zookeepers to care for them themselves.
No one is at ease at Ukraine’s zoos, just like no one is at ease in the whole country. In fact, in some sense, the zoos are a microcosm of the entire country. Read More...
