Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!

DannyinJapan

DannyinJapan

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Somehow, when I think of that song, I get the feeling that people's senses, as one author put it, "have been blunted to the actual danger of these wild animals." One might think that animal attacks would decrease with the shrinking of animal habitats worldwide, but the opposite has been true.
Lions and Tigers kill and eat around 4,000 people per year.
Bears kill around 50 people a year worldwide.
Dogs kill around 100 people a year. (domestic pets!)
Deer kill 200 or so. (by causing fatal car crashes)
Sharks kill around 12 people a year.
Alligators and Crocodiles do very well, with an estimated 500 human buffets every year.
The Tsetse fly kills 66,000 people a year.
Mosquitos are the true monsters, with 2,000,000 human deaths per year.

It seems perfectly natural to me that a tiger in San Francisco would jump out of it's cage and get some BBQ...
 
It seems to me that Mr. Darwin handed out another award with those idiots. What gets me is that they shot the tiger. The tiger was just being a tiger. If you taunt and yell at and prod a tiger, the tiger will eat you if it can. There are far fewer tigers in the world than moronic youths. Sad and terrible that they had to be eaten and mauled. However, they were asking for it and got what they deserved.

It reminds me of that old cartoon short where Mel Blanc is voicing this irritating little character that is banging a stick on the bars of a lion's cage laughing as the lion becomes more and more agitated. Guess what happens to that stupid little goof by the end of the cartoon;)
 
There is one thing I do not understand about my fellow Texans: Why do we need to keep tigers in cages in the back yard?
There are more than 5,000 tigers owned privately here.
There are only 4,000 living in the wild!
 
I don't know what happened in SF. The Zoo failed to respond when the victims came pounding on the cafe door inside the compound. They wouldn't let them in or call 9-11 right away. IT may be a smear campaign was launched by the City and the Zoo to Cover their Asses.
I heard the 9-11 tape and if I were a legal counsel for SF I'd be worried.

munk
 
The more I read about this mess, the more it sounds like everyone lost. The zoo had some issues with the tiger enclosure not being tall enough. The visitors weren't being particularly sensible (if the stories of taunting and drinking/smoking pot are true). People and animal ended up dead. Add the possible smear campaign by the PR person the zoo hired, and the whole thing just makes me angry.
 
Remember Tatiana, the tiger. May the Goddess of Victory always reward a brave heart.

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Mike :(
 
Tigers are nothing to mess around with. They like to attack from behind and gobble animals up.

I saw one of those fanciful 'what if' programs on the Learning/Discovery Channel, and they pitted a Lion against a Tiger. They concluded the Lion would win, 'because lions fight all the time and tigers dont, choosing instead to live alone."
I thought that a real dingy conclusion, dismissing a beast which can climb a fence while holding a cow...all alone.


munk
 
Has anybody come out with the bumper sticker:

"Guns dont kill people, My Tigers do!" ?

If they haven't now would be a good time.
 
..in India when they're trying to fish and harvest small crops?

Or in Ca when the enclosure is not high enough?


Animals are taunted in zoos. That's a fact of life. Zoo's build to account for this.

munk
 
All that's wrong with humanity is pretty much summed up by the actions of these asshats. They just *had* to screw with somebody.

It Tatiana had been a human, she'd be a hero. Public sympathy seems to be 100% on the side of the tiger and the zoo. Sadly, these two other asshats will get a scu_bag lawyer and blame the zoo, and not their own actions. The zoo, an organization that helps people appreciate the beauty in nature, will have to pay.

Once again, people think they're not responsible for their actions. The tiger proved them wrong. She held them accountable, and in my opinion, they deserved more.

Mike

Remember Tatiana, the tiger. May the Goddess of Victory always reward a brave heart.

tatianawd1.jpg
 
Ad Astra said:
Once again, people think they're not responsible for their actions. The tiger proved them wrong. She held them accountable, and in my opinion, they deserved more.

Mike

Remember Tatiana, the tiger. May the Goddess of Victory always reward a brave heart.

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Well said Mike. It's hard not to really get angry when another tiger dies. I can appreciate when humans encroach on tiger territory and get killed just trying to fish or hunt (that's a tough issue). But this is simply another example of people not appreciating and respecting the natural world.
 
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