Transcript for Zookeeper struck in stomach by rhino
it will be but we have the latest on that zookeeper injured by a rhino at a Florida zoo. The 50-year-old rhino is the biggest in the exhibit, one of the zoo’s most beloved animals and Victor Oquendo has the latest. What are we learning about the zookeeper’s condition? Reporter: Good morning, robin. That zookeeper was struck in the stomach. She had to spend the night in the hospital but is expected to be okay. The zoo tellses shoes’s worked here for seven years and had plenty of experience so still so many questions about how it could have happened. It was a routine training session at the Jacksonville zoo gone horribly wrong. This massive 4,000-pound white rhino named Archie striking a zookeeper with its horn and rushed to the hospital with injury. We’re careful around those animals because they’re somewhat unpredictable. Reporter: The zoo says they train them to be more comfortable ahead of medical work. This video with a different animal keeper explaining why. So if we need to do in he had Cal procedures or checkups or check out any wounds or get them to turn a certain way then it won’t be stressful for the animals or for us. More safe for everyone. Reporter: Archie, 50 years old, a star at the zoo since 1975 famously escaped his enclosure in 2010. It took nearly 20 zoo workers and nearly five hours to corner Archie and eventually sedate him. Florida fish and wildlife are investigating. You have an animal that can weigh several tons and when startled or nervous or annoyed for one reason or another, they present quite a danger. We have a child fall off the African platform into the rhino exhibit. Reporter: Just last month at another Florida zoo a 2-year-old slipped into a rhino enclose sure suffered a lacerated liver and numerous con tugs to her back, chest, abdomen and head spending nearly a week in the hospital. And in the training sessions here they teach the animals to open their mouths or lift their legs all for medical procedures. The zoo says they are now reviewing protocol. They hope that the zookeeper will be able to go home today. We hope that too. Thank you.
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