The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo. 4. The carer accidentally “activated the wrong door,” the zoo’s director of animal care says. The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo. 4.

An investigation by the Calgary Zoo determined a 2-year-old female western lowland gorilla named Eyare died from "human error" when it was struck by a hydraulic door. Jonathan Limehouse.

The seven-year-old Baffin died at the Calgary Zoo on Friday after roughhousing in a pond with another male bear, the eight-year-old Siku, while visitors to the exhibit watched.