Pittsburgh Zoo calendar features African painted dogs from fatal mauling

PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Pittsburgh Zoo is featuring the animals that fatally mauled a 2-year-old boy earlier this year on the March page of its 2013 calendar.

Zoo officials said the calendars featuring pictures of African painted dogs had already been printed and made available to patrons before the Nov. 4 death of Maddox Derkosh.

Derkosh died after falling off a railing and into the animals' habitat, where he was attacked.

Zoo President Barbara Baker said officials considered scrapping the calendars after the boy's death, but they'd already been on sale beforehand.

Baker said the dogs are an endangered species the zoo is responsible for helping protect.

The exhibit remains closed.