Adrees Latif / Reuters Senior keeper Jennifer Nelson walks a cheetah to a shelter ahead of Hurricane Irma. There are several reasons why it doesn’t make sense to evacuate thousands of animals from the zoo, communications director Ron Magill told NPR this week. Magill told the Miami Herald that the zoo learned a lot of lessons after weathering Hurricane Andrew 25 years ago. Adrees Latif / Reuters An African grey parrot at Miami Zoo. Adrees Latif / Reuters Cheetahs inside an enclosure that zookeepers say will be able to weather Hurricane Irma.

Source: Huffington Post September 09, 2017 16:32 UTC