In the meantime, they are destroying all evidence with "reconstruction".
You know, I was thinking about that. You know the “cliff divers” in Mexico and Hawaii?
They start diving when young, from shorter cliffs, then gradually dive from higher and higher cliffs, until they know exactly the spot that’s right, the timing that’s right for the water to be coming in or going out, and so forth - there are very few mishaps, if any.
A tiger, especially a female perhaps *just* coming into season - before zookeepers had a chance to put her in the back - and this one evidently hadn’t been in heat before (not sure about that, at 4 years old - they said she was “just coming into her prime” as a breeder and “at the top of her game”), so this would be a guessing game - has lots of time to practice jumping a little farther, kaboom, jumping a little higher, kaboom. Especially at night when no one is around.
Then along comes an aggravating factor that allows Tatiana to put into effect all her practiced moves.
I’ve also been trying to think of really perverse ways that the guys might have provoked her - without knowing, of course, that she could potentially get out.
Or did they? We don’t know that they didn’t make a study of this - looking online for weakenesses in tiger domains in their vicinity. It just seems like people from India might hone in on tigers as a target. What if it’s something we could never in a million years have thought of, like “suicide by tiger” or “murder by tiger” done intentionally?
What if they had some tiger musk to arouse the lady tiger?
I don’t normally think like this, but something terrible happened that day to make Tatiana get out, with “super-tiger” agility.
Filling in cracks in the moat wall, shaving off the tops of rocks on the insides of the moat, trimming tree branches. Typical SF ... the children are in charge. A city which survives in spite of its management - if it weren’t for climate and Pac Rim location, it would be like NOLA.