Elephant kills keeper at Springfield, Missouri, zoo
(CNN) — A 41-year-old elephant named Patience charged and killed a Springfield, Missouri, zookeeper who had come to feed her Friday.
John Phillip Bradford, 62, died in the elephant enclosure at Dickerson Park Zoo, according to Springfield Police Department spokeswoman Lisa Cox. He was the manager of elephants, and had worked at the zoo for 30 years, according to a zoo statement.
Bradford was in the enclosure with two other workers when Patience charged him. The other two workers were unharmed, Cox said.
What set off the incident is unclear.
The zoo referred questions to the city.
“This is very sad day for the Zoo family, as well as our community as a whole,” zoo director Mike Crocker said in a written statement.
The elephant has been at the zoo since 1990. The zoo hasn’t had any previous problems with its elephants, Cox said.
The zoo’s elephant matriarch, Connie, died last week, according to the zoo website.
The zoo opened as normal Friday, but the elephant exhibit was closed.
Exposing the Big Game 
Good for the elephant!!
The girl wants OUT!
Not related to your post but I am at a loss for words over this story: hhttp://www.animalliberationfrontline.com/photos-from-inside-nafa-recent-alf-target-in-wisconsin/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AnimalLiberationFront-line+%28Animal+Liberation+Frontline%29
perhaps when the matriarch died the elephant was in grief/rage.
Yes.
That’s what I thought. Maybe she saw the zookeeper haul away her matriarch and thought that he had killed her.
Humans think we know it all. These very intelligent, feeling animals have been enslaved, tortured, taken from their families, forced to perform unnatural acts,and be on “display”– and then we wonder why they suddenly can’t take it any more.
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Karma ?