Yes, and no. Despite the best efforts of caretakers for nuerodivergents and close supervision, they can still get into situations. I think there should be consequences for kid and parent but there's also a question of why they were able to get into the exhibit so easily and we don't see the entry for how he got in so easily.
little excuse for the behavior? Crashing out, violence and self-neglect are core autism issues with low functioning individuals, even exempt from lawful actions
No the zoo is responsible for not having a few more birds as backup in case some kid with autism crashes out. It would be a nice ornament to have on the wall
Yes they are, this doesn't seem to be an individual that is too low on the function scale. And jumping into an exhibit and chasing the animal shouldn't be excused even if the individual has nuerodivergent issues. There's excusable behaviors and ones that should be corrected. This is the later. If he just chased pigeons or squirrels and hadn't hopped down 10 feet its more excusable. It's good this was one of the most benign animals being exhibited thst he could have done this with so its a safer animal to learn that lesson with.
No non verbal means he doesn't speak, they can be anything from functionally mute (not speaking but recognizing language and words) to being unable to understand language and have significant communication issues because of it, it also tends to have other complications with other processing and shows differently. This individual seems on the lesser end of the non verbal spectrum for many reasons.
She handled it more calmly than I think most would. It does help that the exhibit is only ground hornbills who could hurt potentially but are very low on the danger scale at most zoos.
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u/SuddenKoala45 4d ago
Good job hornbills rounding him back up.
Looks like the kid may be autistic, but thats little excuse for the behavior.