But then Dana says the elephant grabbed her as she tried to walk past him. I can tell you it felt like an anaconda was squeezing me very tightly. Our third one grabbed me and slammed me to the ground Dana was hospitalized. She said her injuries were so severe it required multiple surgeries. She’s not the only one saying she was injured by an exotic animal at a public attraction. Dangerous moments of people getting close to exotic animals captured on camera Experiences that seem benign. Going to a traveling circus birthday parties can be risky. News reviewed government records legal lawsuits and local reports that found at least one hundred fifty people in the last ten years have claimed they were injured during physical contact with exotic animals in the United States. Physical contact with animals is very carefully monitored to make sure we’re not just creating opportunities for people to explore you know dinner tonight animal advocates are demanding change.
Pointing to years of undercover videos they say have revealed the need for strong regulations to keep both animals and people safe. Wild animals are not laboratory animals. Selling with animals getting too close and in national parks Tom builds a relationship as an animal and a man, he enters that person, Dana says the staff rushed to help after the elephant fell to the ground. Think at that point and everyone was thinking maybe he just heard or good. But as time went on, her husband became concerned as a doctor, he said I was not talking coherently at that time. He decided we had to take him to the hospital emergency room immediately, she was shocked to find out the extent of it. My husband was a radiologist in the series. He was watching the scandal. I remember he was walking. He said Dana it’s really bad, I had a lateral and a small plateau crush injury in my knee. Dana, who suffered a head injury, says it took her about two years to regain function of her leg.
When she was trying to sort out some of her medical bills, she said she reached out to the Endangered Ark Foundation to ask their insurance company to contact her. She says she was shocked by the company’s message, “All kinds of hair sitting on the back half, there is no injury to my neck that I suffered from the fall.” Dana eventually filed a lawsuit which she settled out of court without any admission of wrongdoing by the Endangered Ark Foundation. They strongly deny all allegations, the news reported. Miss Garber’s family continues to spend all day at the foundation even after the alleged incident. Dana says she learned that some of the elephants at the sanctuary are completely retired and have still been performing for over a year under the license of a circus called The Court and at the bar.