The moat surrounding the enclosure from which a 350-pound tiger escaped on Christmas Day was actually far shorter than San Francisco Zoo officials thought and what national standards recommend, authorities said today.
The wall was only 12.5 feet high. Forget the dangling teen theory...the tiger could have jumped out flat footed.
Does no one there have a tape measure? Did we just eyeball it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87pDGsTYCqU&feature=related
Little Dillan learned not to tease a tiger
Holy cow! I wonder how long a stretched-out tiger is? Seems it would be easy for a large animal like that to jump 12 feet.
An interesting snip from that link:
“An examination of the tiger’s body also revealed a significant amount of concrete in its back paws, according to a source close to the investigation. That may indicate the tiger used its back claws to help push it up the grotto wall.”
There was a leg in that area and that tiger took a shoe as a souvenir...
rebommend not REQUIRED big difference