Posted on 03/11/2019 8:05:17 AM PDT by ETL
Wildlife World Zoo officials told social media users the jaguar “won’t be put down” after a woman in her 30s suffered injuries to her arm following the Saturday incident.
The woman jumped a barrier at the Litchfield Park zoo and reached out to take a selfie when the big cat dug her claws into the visitor’s hand. ..."
Adam Wilkerson, who was at the zoo on Saturday, told FOX10 he heard the woman scream for help.
"I hear this young girl screaming, 'Help, help, help,' and without thinking, I just run over there.
I see another girl with her up against the cage of the jaguar and the jaguar has clasped its claws outside of the cage around her hand and into her flesh," Wilkerson told the news station.
Wilkerson said his mother threw a water bottle into the cage to distract the jaguar just enough for her to let go of the woman’s arm.
"The jaguar lets go of the girl somewhat because the claw catches on just her sweater. At that moment, I grabbed the girl around the torso and pulled her away from the cage and it unlatches from her claw,” he recalled.
“The jaguar just goes after the bottle.”
Wilkerson took video showing the woman on the ground with a gash on her arm screaming in agony. Several people were seen attempting to help her as they waited for help.
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That was just a love pat.
Well, in the case of people like this idiot woman, yes it’s worth their lives...and good riddence.
Unfortunately, Harambe the gorilla isn’t available for comment.
Woman should be euthanized.
“Is it really worth your life?”
Have you ever gotten over 20 likes for a photo? If not, you’ll never understand man!
(Humorless need to insert their own sarc tag here)
Thank goodness. Usually they kill the animal when it’s the stupid human who’s at fault.
Jaguar:
“The greatest crumpet-catcher known to man,” as US journalist Henry Manney described it.
I wonder if that is real.
Why isn’t she bleeding?
Fake but accurate.
It’s from the movie “Crazy People”.
Yup Disney did it. Currently in my area there is a debate about how to deal with the cute and cuddly urban coyotes. They were here first don’t you know. The bleeding hearts were winning the argument until the coyotes entered a backyard and killed a small dog. Pulled it’s guts out and left it yammering while it slowly died. Then they left the carcass more or less intact. Stopped the discussion for two weeks now from the pro-coyote crowd.
Good. It makes zero sense to punish the animal for the human’s stupidity.
It's one of those "Circle of Life" kind of things.
And bears......................
A melanistic jaguar is a color morph which occurs at about 6 percent frequency in populations
Melanistic jaguars are informally known as black panthers, but as with all forms of polymorphism they do not form a separate species.
The black morph is less common than the spotted morph, estimated at occurring in about 6% of the South American jaguar population.[35]
In Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental, the first black jaguar was recorded in 2004.[36]
Some evidence indicates that the melanistic allele is dominant, and being supported by natural selection.[37]
The black form may be an example of heterozygote advantage; breeding in captivity is not yet conclusive on this.
Melanistic jaguars (or “black” jaguars) occur primarily in parts of South America, and are virtually unknown in wild populations residing in the subtropical and temperate regions of North America; they have never been documented north of Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec.[38]
Extremely rare albino individuals, sometimes called white panthers, also occur among jaguars, as with the other big cats.[24]
As usual with albinos in the wild, selection keeps the frequency close to the rate of mutation.
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