A father reportedly took his 2-year-old daughter to an elephant habitat at the famous San Diego Zoo to take a photo with the animals
SAN DIEGO – A father allegedly carried his 2-year-old daughter into an elephant habitat at the famous San Diego Zoo to take a photo with the animals, police said on Friday.
An elephant seemed to want to attack them, and the father dropped his son when they tried to escape from the compound, the San Diego police sergeant. Ariel Savage told NBC San Diego. He was finally able to get it out safely.
The elephant was not injured, zoo officials told The San Diego Union-Tribune.
The 25-year-old father was arrested on suspicion of endangering a child. The police told the newspaper that the man “wanted to take a picture with the African elephant”.
The incident occurred on Friday afternoon at Balboa Park Zoo, when “two guests, despite various barriers, purposely and illegally invaded a habitat that is home to our Asian and African elephants,” wrote the zoo’s spokesman. , Andrew James, in a statement to the newspaper.