Jack Hanna: Killing of exotic animals in Ohio ‘is the Sept. 11th of the animal world’

"This will go down in my memories lie Sept. 11th went down. This is the Sept. 11th of the animal world."

-- Jack Hanna, celebrity wildlife expert, animal activist and television host, on the killing of 49 exotic animals released from a private reserve in Zanesville, Ohio, earlier this month. Marian Thompson--the wife of the preserve's owner, Terry Thompson, who killed himself before setting the animals free--is lobbying to get the six animals that survived back from the Columbus Zoo, where Hanna is director emeritus. "Do you think I will send those animals back to that situation?" Hanna said. "I'm not going to unless somebody drags me out there and throws me in jail."

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