Posted on 10/28/2016 5:29:27 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
A trainer is recovering after a Bengal tiger clawed and dragged her at a fair in Pensacola, Florida. School children on a trip witnessed the attack inside the cage. The woman suffered several cuts and was taken to the hospital for treatment.
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Here’s an idea, let’s leave the animals in the wild. Don’t raise them in captivity and then tell us they are better off where they are.
I would guess it’s because lions as a pack animal are more used to taking queues from a leader?
I’m beginning to come around to that point of view, even though I am the service human for a desert tortoise. He(?) was born in captivity and can never be put in the wild, though.
You got it. Tigers are very independent and don’t follow a trainer’s commands like lions do.
Would be interesting to put a compilation of past Tiger attacks together, as there have been some incredible prior incidents. One that comes to mind is the one in San Fran some years ago where some teenagers were tormenting a tiger in its outdoor enclosure for a fairly long while. Later in the day, the tiger managed to scale the walls of the enclosure and climb out.
Interestingly, after it did it walked along the paths purposely hunting down its tormentors, ignoring all the other people it passed on the way. When it finally tracked down the guy who I suppose had bothered him the most, he killed him. Didn’t try to eat him. Just killed him.
Good life lesson for the kids.
Actually, one young man was killed and the two it tracked were mauled.
Any of Jim Corbett’s books on hunting man-eating tigers in India make for good reading. Check them out on Amazon.
Chris Rock: “That tiger didn’t go crazy. That tiger went tiger.”
"A female Siberian tiger killed in a hail of police gunfire after fatally mauling a man at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day 2007 likely was provoked into leaping and clawing out of its enclosure, a federal investigator said in documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The tiger named Tatiana killed 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. and injured his friends, brothers Paul and Kulbir Dhaliwal, leaving claw marks etched in the asphalt and claw fragments in the bushes outside its pen. Claw marks were also discovered near the top of the enclosure wall, which was lower than federal safety standards dictate, showing that the big cat was able to get enough leverage to pull itself out.
“It appears the tiger was able to jump from the bottom of the dry moat to the top of the wall, and gain enough purchase over the top to pull herself out over the moat wall,” wrote Laurie Gage, a tiger expert who investigated the scene for the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, which oversees the nation’s zoos.
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“After a kill, I find it interesting the tiger would leave a kill to go after something else unless there were a compelling reason,” Gage wrote. “The tiger passed exhibits with warthogs, which it ignored as it followed (the blood trail?) of the two brothers to the Terrace Cafe outside the dining area.”
Over the years I have soured on zoos and circuses and the like. There are cases like yours where human intervention is beneficial to the wild animal.
Tortoises and turtles are cool, BTW!
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Bottom line...don’t mess with tigers, after leopards, the biggest man killer on Earth.
Went back and looked, yeah I did!
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