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Officials unsure what prompted lion to kill fellow big cat at Dallas Zoo
Fox News ^ | November 18, 2013

Posted on 11/18/2013 4:24:16 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

A female lion at the Dallas Zoo was killed by a male lion in front of visitors on Sunday and officials are unsure what prompted the attack.

The female lion, 5-year-old Johari, was bitten on the neck by one of two male lions in the exhibit, Kamaia and Dinari, although it’s unclear what lion delivered the fatal bite. Lynn Kramer, the zoo’s vice president of animal operations and welfare, told MyFoxDFW.com he had never seen such an attack in several decades of experience with the animals.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cats; dallas; lions; zoos
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Sensitivity training classes due for the lion.
1 posted on 11/18/2013 4:24:16 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement
from a different tribe...

2 posted on 11/18/2013 4:27:28 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: ConservativeStatement

She told the male lion to wash the dishes.


3 posted on 11/18/2013 4:31:02 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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4 posted on 11/18/2013 4:33:21 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: skinkinthegrass

She was a cheetah.

You can’t hide your lion eyes
And your snarl is a thin disguise
I thought by now you’d realize
There ain’t no way ‘to hide your lion eyes.


5 posted on 11/18/2013 4:33:26 PM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Obviously part of the “war on women”


6 posted on 11/18/2013 4:35:53 PM PST by spudville
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To: ConservativeStatement

stir crazy


7 posted on 11/18/2013 4:37:20 PM PST by shalom aleichem
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To: ConservativeStatement

Bitch just wouldn’t shut the hell up.


8 posted on 11/18/2013 4:39:05 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) ( Hey Rubio, eat pooh pal))
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To: ConservativeStatement

Writer was never married.


9 posted on 11/18/2013 4:39:34 PM PST by hadaclueonce (I was wrong when I thought Ken Lay was the AntiChrist. Now I know it is 0)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I think she was playing one of the males against the other so one of them popped a cap in her.


10 posted on 11/18/2013 4:42:21 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The way the mayor keeps carrying on about domestic violence....


11 posted on 11/18/2013 4:43:41 PM PST by PAR35
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To: ConservativeStatement

Just havin’ a bad day. I feel the same way, sometimes.


12 posted on 11/18/2013 4:44:14 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Probably the reason that Baldwin fella acted out recently, too. :-)


13 posted on 11/18/2013 4:46:34 PM PST by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: saganite

Bravo!


14 posted on 11/18/2013 4:47:35 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: saganite

>> She was a cheetah. Lion eyes etc.

Thought I’d let you know that it IS possible to laugh and groan at the same time. :-)


15 posted on 11/18/2013 5:00:12 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: null and void

Just, you know, SNAPPED... had enough...


16 posted on 11/18/2013 5:01:25 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: shalom aleichem

I agree———locked up their entire lives and they just go nuts.

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17 posted on 11/18/2013 5:03:07 PM PST by Mears
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To: ConservativeStatement

Rough sex got out of hand....


18 posted on 11/18/2013 5:03:33 PM PST by onona (The Earth is the insane asylum for the universe (yup, I belong))
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To: ConservativeStatement

I have a theory. They are L. I. O. N. S. JUST SAYIN!


19 posted on 11/18/2013 5:06:44 PM PST by smaug6 (We can't afford to be innocent!! Stand up and face the enemy.)
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To: ConservativeStatement; Revolting cat!; Daffynition; Slings and Arrows; GeronL

Pride.


20 posted on 11/18/2013 5:10:38 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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