Why tiger death won’t stop zoo visits
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Donald Trump decided to mark the death of a man mauled by a tiger in a Yorkshire zoo by posting an AI-generated video of himself wrestling with a tiger.
The killing of 23-year-old William Chapman has offered a stark reminder of just how dangerous zoo animals can be when things go wrong.
So, has the social media obsession with animal videos desensitised us to the threat from wildlife?
It has also renewed the debate over whether we should be keeping animals like that in captivity in the first place. Just how safe are the UK’s zoos and why do we even have them?
Niall Paterson is joined by Amy Dickman, professor of Wildlife Conservation at Oxford University.