It’s essentially farm/ranch work, all hours in all weather. My friend took a solid beating from a red kangaroo. He put her in the hospital. Several years later she was severely mauled by a very large captive trash panda (raccoon).
Yikes!
Far worse things happened there. Mountain lions mauled a construction worker, Hyena killed and ate part of a worker, lions took an arm from a guy, jaguars yarded someone through the fence, bit by bit. Pretty gruesome. Chimps were always my biggest fear by far.
Wow, that is pretty wild. Hard to imagine they could keep operating after those kinds of mishaps. And yes, chimps are incredibly dangerous.
It was over a period of years, us fish and wildlife oversaw it and used it as a holding facility for confiscated animals. Consequently, some of those were very dangerous animals. We had many indigent sorts of people working there, myself included. At least two of those incidents were simply workers comp type situations where procedures were not correctly followed and injuries resulted. The hyena thing seemed to be suicide by hyena. The person went into the compound at night and entered the hyena enclosure alone, and then locked themselves in. The jaguar incident I was not there for. Martine had been injured by a jaguar in a separate incident while swimming with it. She bore the scars on her back. It was surely loosely run. Most of the employees were illegal immigrants. It was a requirement to live on premises and all lodging and utilities were included.
Wildlife Waystation had some real issues over the years, not just safety.
