Luz Elizabeth Rae (26) was arrested and charged with criminal trespassing.
The zoo released the following statement:
"It's extremely dangerous. These are primates we're talking about here, so they can do some substantial damage to you. They have large canines; they're stronger than they look. They may be small monkeys, but they are extremely strong. They can take you to the ground if they wanted to. It takes years to build trust with these animals and for someone to come in there for five minutes for a video on Instagram or whatever just ruins years of work."
Additionally, the Zoo director Joe Montisano has said they're considering renovating exhibits like this moving forward so others cannot get into the enclosure. He stated the following:
"It's (the enclosure) been here—I don't know—30 years. But now they're going to probably review. There are standards and maybe they're going to have to make some changes to that so it could have a large ripple effect, not only here, not only in Texas, but all over the country, quite frankly, because of one person's ignorant action."
So, after Tiger King Texas and now this, we're going to have to change it from only in Florida to only in Texas.
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