Experts seek answers after zoo killing
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EXPERTS at a zoo in the Moroccan capital of Rabat are trying to understand why an elephant hurled a stone toward visitors, killing a 7-year-old girl.
The behavior of the female elephant was “abnormal” and needs to be understood, a veterinarian at the zoo said yesterday.
The girl was visiting the Zoological Garden of Rabat with her family on Tuesday, admiring three elephants when one picked up a stone, then tossed it more than 10 meters over a huge ditch and a wooden barrier toward the visitors. The girl was struck in the head and died hours later.
The elephant exhibit has been temporarily closed, zoo veterinarian Abderahim Salhi said by telephone. He said that zoo personnel remained in shock three days later at what he called an “unforeseeable accident.”
“The behavior ... of any animal is very complex,” he said, “and wild animals are unpredictable.”
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