Posted on 06/26/2008 7:53:55 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
I'd proposed she was simply on a prowl she'd been on before heading over to the dumpster at one of the little restaurant areas on the zoo grounds.
Kid got in her way.
End of story.
Now we have a motive for such behavior.
We sure do.
The zoo administrators were trying to save money on food.
I think I am ready for all zoos to close down and let the animals in captivity be taken to where they can roam in their own environment. We were at a zoo in Dec and the poor tiger did nothing but walk up a hill and back down. I stood there looking at him and thinking to myself what a beautiful creature of God ... meant to roam the countryside where he is from but instead...he is pacing, pacing, pacing because he is caged. I just don’t think it is right somehow.
I think with TV, Animal shows, computers and movies/DVD’s etc...we can learn about all the animals without putting them behind bars.
Crazy Californicans probably attempted to augment the tigresse’s diet to tofu and water chestnuts instead of the amount of meat it needed.
Crazy Californicans probably attempted to augment the tigresse’s diet to tofu and water chestnuts instead of the amount of meat it needed.
Maybe those SF twits had Tatiana on a vegan diet?
agreed. Send them back to their lands. Keep the ones that can be expected to thrive in a captive environemnt and repatriate the rest.
Yeah, only seems right huh? Not to mention humane.
You could not have been at the San Diego Zoo.
Awesome spot, wonderful people, useful information for all.
It always bothered me to watch the polar bears at the St. Paul, Minnesota zoo. They would swim around in their small pool doing the same pattern over and over. Dive on one end, push off with one foot on the other, etc.
I don’t know if this is a normal thing for them. It just seemed so obsessive compulsive.
This is not going to help the city in the lawsuit.
Zookeeper malpractice? Are they licensed? Are there certifications or professional categories? Are zoos accredited? Sounds like a failure of the system within the zoo community.
Just how much does it cost to feed a tiger?? A billion dollars a year? And what does the tax base bring in every year in SF? A trillion? All those “happy” folks in GayTown are so greedy that they would not give a crap, let alone an adequate diet for a tiger in their own zoo? It’s a freakin’ ZOO forcryinoutloud. God help us. I’m surprised. I’m shocked. I’m stunned. I’m being sarcastic.
My future mother in law put it best: We were talking about the carnival and elephants in particular and I might have said something about how I like to see elephants at carnivals, and she said “not me. This is not their natural environment, how could you like to see them dressed up, in a foreign and often hostile environment, performing for thier livelihood?” It really made me think about the whole situation and how sad it is to see them like that, like clowns, instead of majestically waltzing across the Savannah...
....I think zoos are a throwback to the time before TV....how bad do we need them now considering how much they cost...I can see exotic animals in HD on television....local animals like deer,fox,turkey,coyote ect are running around my land every day anyway...
Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando does a very good job of providing large spaces for their animals to roam. Otherwise, I really dislike zoos and circuses for the very reasons you mention.
I bet the elephants are very happy to get fed everyday without having to worry about it.
yeah, like prisoners in our prisons, right?
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