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VOL. 80 PART 5 SEPTEMBER 2022
Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm in Bristol houses two white rhinos.
The recent flooding in Kentucky has been tragic, but coincidentally coming
to our attention was a CBS story in 2019 about a replica of Noah’s Ark (“Ark
Encounter”) in that state demanding its insurance company cover property
damage from flooding. Alas, the Goddess of Irony would not go so far as to
cause damage to the Ark itself. The flooding had caused a landslide on the
attraction’s access road. The company operating the attraction was said to
be called Answers in Genesis and also to operate the Creation Museum.
Rhino Legal Finance says it “can provide you with a settlement loan, while
your lawyer fights to ensure you obtain a fair settlement”.
Channel News Asia reported in December 2021 that a trespassing teenager
who had performed a backflip in the white rhino enclosure at the Singapore
Zoo was sentenced to a year’s “reformative training” for this and various
non-zoo-related transgressions0. Channel News noted:
In December 2020, he went to the zoo with his then-girlfriend. He
decided to jump into the rhino enclosure, with the intention of taking a
video and posting it online.
He had seen a viral video of a man riding a giraffe and thought he could
take a video that would also go viral.
His girlfriend filmed him doing a backflip in the enclosure, and he later
uploaded the clip to his public TikTok account. It drew 55,000 views by
the time the zoo called the police for fear others would follow suit.
Keith E. Spencer was appointed to the board of directors for the VGH &
UBC Hospital Foundation.
In British Columbia, all species of the family Rhinocerotidaeare (rhinoceros)
are considered “a controlled alien species” under the Wildlife Act and regulations.
That means that despite what your children may wish, it is an
offence in British Columbia to possess a rhinoceros without a permit. Doing
so may result in a fine of not more than $100,000 or a term of imprisonment
not exceeding one year, or both, for a first offence. Possessing a rhino after
a first conviction will double your jeopardy to fines of up to $200,000 and
two years in jail, or both. Resist the urge to get a pet rhino, or at least seek
legal advice before getting one.
Gainsberg Law, a Chicago law firm that says its members include “experienced
animal bite lawyers”, segued from posting about “Patron at Cincinnati
Ohio Zoo Bitten by a Baby Rhinoceros” in 2018 to “what if you’re attacked by
a smaller animal – say, a family pet? Homeowners and businesses can be