[vetvetdoug]

A zookeeper’s job is not a safe job. Giraffes are very dangerous, as are zebras, hippos, elephants and cervidae. I have been slapped by an elephant's trunk and in no bar fight have I ever been hit so hard. Giraffes can cover a lot of ground fast and head butt you so quick you won't have time to drop the shovel and run. The cats and primates are especially dangerous. Bears look at you like I would look at a nice steak. The touchy feely liberal environmental types get hired by zoos but quit when the reality of their place on the food chain sets in.

[KC Burke]

I was envolved in the construction of a lion exhibit once. The head lion keeper was one deadly serious dude.

[henkster]

When going to the zoo, my favorite stop is always at the tiger cage. I think they are the most beautiful animals on earth. And I also know they are quite deadly, and not “cute” or “cuddly.”

There is a reason the most fearsome tank in WW2 was called the Tiger. Allied tank men did not think them beautiful, cute or cuddly.