Posted on 12/27/2007 10:05:26 AM PST by knuthom
The parents are always amazed!
A “Not-My-Little-Angel!!” alert!
Sousa Sr would be better served shutting the hell up at this point.
The very idea that tigers have the mental faculties to remember exactly who taunted them is totally ridiculous - but we live in an age where people even believe in human induced global warming!
So you have evidence that tigers cannot cognitively target people who taunt them?
.... and your degree is in??????????
I bet the two latter victims were never out of that tigers sight. Remember this was late at night and the zoo was pretty much empty. I bet after the tiger killed its first victim it was right behind the other 2 as they fled. It just caught up with them at the cafe.
Discrimination studies using the touch screen
A new method for testing dogs cognitive abilities
Friederike Range, Ulli Aust, Michael Steuer, Ludwig Huber
A computer-automated touchscreen testing procedure for studying learning, social, and physical cognition in the dog (Canis familiaris) is described. Generally, the dogs’ task during each trial was to touch with their nose at images that are defined as positive by the experimenter. After an autoshaping procedure, in which the dogs learned to deliver the touch response to images, they were trained on two visual discrimination problems. In the first, the subjects learned to correctly choose between two simultaneously presented images; here we used simple forms (circle and square). In the second, they learned to look carefully to discriminate between two sets of stimuli, one consisting of three colour photographs of underwater scenes, the other of three arbitrary colour drawings. After successful performance on these problems, dogs were submitted to a dog-landscape visual categorization problem. They were first trained to discriminate between a large (N=60) set of dog pictures and an equally large set of landscape pictures. After reaching a criterion of 80% correct first choices, the dogs received 4 test sessions including 40 novel positive and negative stimuli. They successfully transferred their knowledge to the novel stimuli. We conclude that the touchscreen-based operant method for investigating cognition in dogs is valid and that it allows for direct comparison of cognitive abilities with other species (e.g., pigeons and monkeys).
http://www.nc.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=14571
I’m still trying to figure out what the cops thought was supposed to happen when they yelled at the man-eating tiger to “Stop!” For all they know, he didn’t even speak English. I have a 120-pound Doberman who, sufficiently annoyed at an intruder, wouldn’t stop were I yelling it in his ear. And a 300-pound tiger is going to look up and say, “Oh, sorry, didn’t realize you’d be upset.” I don’t think it works that way.
My thoughts, exactly.
He’s not enough in a state of shock to prevent him from appearing on GMA, it would appear......
Oops...just correcting myself. I guess it wasn't too late (around 5pm) but other stories I read say the zoo was close to closing and nearly empty. Thus I bet the victims were probably the only people the tiger really encountered as it attacked.
I agree with your theory. The tiger could have jumped that far, according to what I learned earlier.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1944711/posts?page=113
My post 113 there shows some tiger facts found on ask.com.
“The very idea that tigers have the mental faculties to remember exactly who taunted them is totally ridiculous”.
First, I have to admit I did laugh at the police yelling “stop” before the shot him. “Stop or we’ll shoot”?
What kind of taunting do you do to a tiger “your momma wears army boots” probably won’t work, or “you can’t catch me”.
What they are calling taunting is probably more like ‘teasing’, like they hung their arms over the edge, waving them around, and when the tiger jumped they’d pull back.
My guess would be that one time the tiger just got a particularly good jump, managed to hook a toe in a crack in the wall somewhere, just enough to get a hold up to get over the fence. Maybe there’s a little greenery growing on the wall that he was able to get some traction on or something.
Seems a good distance from the grotto to where the two who fled were tracked. If the place were empty or not, seems this tiger tracked them down. Anyone else its way probably would have suffered the same fate. It doesn’t appear to be chance that this tiger just happened upon them. I say he hunted them, which would indicate the tiger was acting on instinct to rid itself of a threat.
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