Why isn't the safety of the animals the number one priority at zoos?

Believe me, animal safety is a number one priority.

Where the public and humans are concerned, that is also a number one priority.

Now in extreme cases where a human may be in harms way, the human take precedence.

Zoos frown very heavily on even humans so much as stressing their animals.

A human does harm to an animal, they pay a heavy price for their actions. We are supposed to be smarter than the animals and responsible for our actions.

A bit different when a 4 yer old circumvents safety protocol and wings up in a gorilla cage.

Although authorities disagree, the parent(s) of the child should be held accountable.

Sorry, a human cannot sign away his/her right to live. You cannot authorize the zoo to kill you if you endanger an animal.

That may change, though, since some states have made it legal to kill sick people. It's something to think about.

That would hold up all the people coming to the zoo. It's assumed a person has the intelligence NOT to do something stupid, and to watch their own kids correctly.

The human race survives because we generally put our survival above anything else. If not ourselves personally, then the survival of our family, relatives, and fellow citizens. Any other priority would result in the death of the human race, and then we wouldn't be around to discuss it any more.

I guess because people don't value the safety of animals above themselves. Many people would say that would be unnatural.

People are customers, and customers are always right.