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Records: SF Tiger 'Frantic For Food' Before Attack
CBS ^ | 2/26/08

Posted on 06/26/2008 7:53:55 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside

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1 posted on 06/26/2008 7:53:55 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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Hmmm ~ hungry tiger. No wonder.

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.

2 posted on 06/26/2008 7:58:11 PM PDT by muawiyah (We need a "Gastank For America" to win back Congress)
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Now we have a motive

We sure do.

The zoo administrators were trying to save money on food.

3 posted on 06/26/2008 8:01:24 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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Here's the zoo worker who got chomped on and is now suing
4 posted on 06/26/2008 8:06:51 PM PDT by xDGx
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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.


5 posted on 06/26/2008 8:07:31 PM PDT by cubreporter
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Crazy Californicans probably attempted to augment the tigresse’s diet to tofu and water chestnuts instead of the amount of meat it needed.


6 posted on 06/26/2008 8:09:50 PM PDT by TFMcGuire (Either you are an American, or you are a liberal)
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Crazy Californicans probably attempted to augment the tigresse’s diet to tofu and water chestnuts instead of the amount of meat it needed.


7 posted on 06/26/2008 8:09:50 PM PDT by TFMcGuire (Either you are an American, or you are a liberal)
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To: Mr. Brightside

Maybe those SF twits had Tatiana on a vegan diet?


8 posted on 06/26/2008 8:09:50 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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agreed. Send them back to their lands. Keep the ones that can be expected to thrive in a captive environemnt and repatriate the rest.


9 posted on 06/26/2008 8:10:13 PM PDT by steel_resolve (We are living in the post-rational world where being a moron is an asset)
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Yeah, only seems right huh? Not to mention humane.


10 posted on 06/26/2008 8:12:12 PM PDT by cubreporter
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You could not have been at the San Diego Zoo.
Awesome spot, wonderful people, useful information for all.


11 posted on 06/26/2008 8:12:28 PM PDT by acapesket
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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.


12 posted on 06/26/2008 8:16:34 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Mr. Brightside

This is not going to help the city in the lawsuit.


13 posted on 06/26/2008 8:21:48 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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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.


14 posted on 06/26/2008 8:26:06 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (If it is going to take 10 years, shouldn't we get started? Drill here, drill now, pay less.)
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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.


15 posted on 06/26/2008 8:26:37 PM PDT by LiberConservative ("Typical" White Guy)
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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...


16 posted on 06/26/2008 8:39:43 PM PDT by steel_resolve (We are living in the post-rational world where being a moron is an asset)
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....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...


17 posted on 06/26/2008 8:51:37 PM PDT by STONEWALLS
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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.


18 posted on 06/26/2008 9:03:28 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie (<----- Typical White Person)
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I bet the elephants are very happy to get fed everyday without having to worry about it.


19 posted on 06/26/2008 9:25:05 PM PDT by Seruzawa (A skeleton walks into a bar and asks for a beer and a mop.)
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yeah, like prisoners in our prisons, right?


20 posted on 06/26/2008 9:35:00 PM PDT by steel_resolve (We are living in the post-rational world where being a moron is an asset)
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