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A father allegedly took his two-year-old daughter to an elephant habitat at California’s San Diego Zoo to take a photo with the animals, police said.
An elephant appeared to want to charge at them, and the father released his son when they tried to escape the compound, San Diego Police Sgt. Ariel Savage told NBC San Diego.
He was finally able to get her out safely.
The elephant was not injured, zoo officials said. The San Diego Union-Tribune.
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The 25-year-old father was arrested on suspicion of endangering a minor.
Police told the newspaper that the man “wanted to take a picture with the male African elephant.”
The incident occurred on Friday afternoon (local time) at the Balboa Park Zoo when “two guests, despite multiple barriers, illegally and deliberately entered a habitat, which is home to our Asian and African elephants,” Zoo spokesman Andrew James wrote in a statement to the newspaper.
