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.
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.
"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.”
That can’t be. Tigers are our friends. It loved the trainer and she loved it!All she had to do was give it wuv and kisses and some nummy treats! Maybe if all the kiddies had started singing “The Circle of Life”./sarc Lions tigers same difference.
The tiger is the apex predator of felines. Pound for pound it is one of the most deadliest and powerful animals on the planet. Why in the world some dumb human thinks it can be humiliated into preforming circus tricks is beyond me.