Born 2 B Wild
By: Emily Eagen
Some real life stories
A women being mauled by a monkey
On February 16 a 15-year-old chimpanzee named Travis seriously mauled a woman who was visiting the animal's owner -- Sandra Harold -- at a home in Stamford, CT.
A popular tiger attacks
Perhaps the most famous recent tiger attack occurred on Oct 3, 2003, when Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy was bitten by the 600-pound white tiger Montecore at The Mirage in Las Vegas -
A 6 year old kid almost lost his hand
A 600-pound pet black bear, who had been kept in a 15-foot-by-15-foot cage for a decade, bit and nearly severed the hand of a 6-year-old boy who tried to pet him on his grandfather's farm. The boy's hand was reattached, though it hung by only 11/2 inches of skin. The bear was killed.
Dangers for the wild animals when keep as pets.
They are by their very nature, exotic animals are dangerous. Although most exotic animals are territorial and require group interactions, an exotic pet typically is isolated and spends the majority of his/her day in a small enclosure unable to roam and express natural behaviors freely. These animals are time bombs waiting to explode.
Dangers of humans when they keep wild animals as pets
They can attack you when you are sleeping. The can get out of there cage and wreck stuff when your not home. They can hurt you by scratch you and cut your skin open and you can get an infection. They can kill you. You can get infections.
What's legal and illegal?
In Alaska is that you cant sell or trade wild animals.In lots of places you aren't allowed to own wild animals. When people trade sometimes they just kill them when they say they are going to keep them. Its also a dangerous thing to do.
What's the impact on the environment on an animal?
When people keep wild animals sometimes they don't take care of them because they are wild animals. Animals like when they room to roam not when they are in a cage. And they don't like having to lay in there own poop and pee.
What do the experts say?
They say that you should not have wild pets cause they are very dangerous to have.They could seem to like you but they might not.