It would appear that the poor girl had used exceedingly poor judgment by applying a tiger-like face.
I don’t understand why people who are supposedly “experts” in the handling of these big cats can’t understand that these animals are “wired” to kill at their slightest whim. That’s what they do, and the kill instinct can occur at any time and for no apparent reason. Survival of the fittest has genetically conditioned them that way. I believe scientific studies have shown that cats in no way develop an emotional bond with humans, as in the case of dogs, and that what many people perceive as affection by cats, are merely territorial gestures.
There is no amount of apparent affection on the part of these cats that will preclude them from acting on their kill instinct. One thing I’ve noticed about big cats is how they will appear, after a kill, almost affectionate towards their prey, licking and grooming the prey. The key being, AFTER the kill.
“It’s very new and all the details are still coming in,”
Guess it was just her time of the month to go...
Humanizing animals doesn’t work.
I had an “amazing” experience in my early 20’s, got in a cage with some yearling lions ... not scared but very cautious, they were already developing that killer instinct at that age, any older and it wouldn’t have happened or I could have ended up like this.
Either really poor procedures, or they got complacent and sloppy.
https://www.facebook.com/superficiaLDyNaStY/videos/830777653712104/
Arab/African slavers would frequently leave their own enslaved people, sick and dying along the route to Mombasa, home of the slave markets. Abandoning these suffering souls to the bush, they made easy prey for the lions. It's quite possible that over the centuries of uninterrupted slave caravans parading through the area, that the lions had become conditioned and accustomed to human meat.
Click on link for the video (safe - unless you are a PC leftist weenie.)
I thought I had accidentally clicked on DU with all these mocking posts on someone’s death. If these posters rally are conservatives, they are the ones who give us all a bad name. Death comes for us all, and she was someone’s wife and daughter, so one should respect that if nothing else and keep their witless remarks to themselves.
***Konweiser, a three-year veteran of the zoo and tiger expert, was doing normal procedural actions with the tiger when it attacked her. Her husband also works for the zoo.***
“Stacey was an expert,”
Sixty years ago we were taught in school..”FAMILIARITY breeds contempt.”
In simple words, knowing how to do something over and over you soon lose the ability to see danger.
Poor woman. Wild animals can be unpredicable. Her family must be heartbroken.
They need to have someone on over-watch with a big gun any time a person is in the vicinity of a big cat.
I don’t care how “endangered” the animal is, people win hands down.
#HumanLivesMatter for those who live by the hash-tag.
THE TIGER WANTED SOME FRESH MEAT
No good deed goes unpunished. Hint: THEY'RE ANIMALS...it's what they do....no matter how many Disney movies you watch.
Sad. RIP.
my 12 lb cat could suddenly get angry and bite and kick if held too long. Imagine if he were as huge as a tiger and not domesticated.