Posted on 12/30/2007 12:48:07 PM PST by gitmo
Can you say “lawsuit”?
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with EMT’s waiting until they knew the zoo was secure. What puzzles me is what happened between the time zoo officials were “dealing with it” and the time the tiger was shot.
One of the animals I was really attached to when I was a zookeeper escaped a few years after I had moved on. She was a very playful Russian Brown Bear. They had to shoot her ... she was a very powerful animal. I’ve often thought I could have gotten her back into her enclosure without harming her.
But there were other animals I would have shot before getting anywhere near them.
Not really. In less than 10 minutes the victim was found and paramedics were rendering aid. The cat was killed in less than 20 minutes. During this time they found the cat and EMS and police were on the scene. While confusion I’m sure, I don’t see chaos.
I think they thought they had multiple cats loose at first.
I’ve often wondered why the big zoos do not keep water in the moats in those big cats and bear cages. Makes sense that the water, at least deep enough to keep the animals from touching bottom, would keep them from getting traction, to jump and climb up the wall.
Looks like carelessness on the part of the zoo management all around the country where they have stopped putting water in the moats.
The place was a real zoo there for a while.
Shortening the tiger's legs would work, too....;^)
I'll buy that argument.
Actually, I would think they were crazy if they did not make sure the animals had been secured.
The cops shot and killed the tiger less than 20 minutes after the first call came in. And the scene was chaotic? Gee, who woulda guessed. In the past, whenever a dangerous animal was loose in a zoo, the scene was very tranquil and the situation was resolved in an orderly manner within the first thirty seconds. If only these three wonderful lads had tormented the tiger while it was still light out.
I’m surprised they were able to find the tiger in 20 minutes.
The moat is part of the tigers’ habitat. There’s two areas for the tigers to roam. An elevated island area surrounded by a moat. The moat is there so the tigers can’t jump across it to get to the spectator viewing area. But the tigers can also go down in the moat and walk around.
Your bear....Were you able to secure the place and put the bear down in less than 20 minutes? It just sounds like a lot of people got control of the situation in a very short time, before others killed. JMOT
Tigers are excellent swimmers, and when you have claws like that, traction probably isn't an issue.
The one single time in my life I actually felt the ‘prey’ instinct go off (as in ‘I am prey’) was when a tiger choose to look at me for a bit at the Edinburgh Zoo. I do assume if I had been that close to other large cat predators the sensation might have been very similar.
It was quite disconcerting, though also illuminating, in a way.
I don’t know how he wouldn’t have been pulled down but it sure reads like the cat might have got a grip on something with her front paws and climbed up the wall with her back ones.
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