Poor Tiger

[edwards]

Today, I am mostly sad that a tiger was shot dead after attacking/mauling some people in a zoo. It seems silly that the animal couldn't be sedated. If i had been mauled by the animal, I'm somewhat worried that I'd be inclined to try and take the bullet for it :(

Tigers. They kill people. Big surprise. I can't help suspecting that three youths aged 19/20 were utterly innocent regarding getting a mauling...

Comments

[faerieevenstar.livejournal.com]

That made me so sad too. I know I should feel sad for the guy that died; but the tiger was just being a tiger... :(

[yuitsu.livejournal.com]

They found it? They didn't say that on the report I saw, just a bit about the enclosure, a past attack on a keeper, the zoo being closed because they were at fault etc. I'm wondering quite how it managed to get out over a 15foot high wall..

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Per the radio bit I heard this morning, at least one youth was about as innocent as is possible for youths to be: the one being mauled at the time the tiger was shot (and therefore lived) was having a coffee at a snack stand on his way out of the zoo.

The real question in all of this is how or by whom the tiger got out in the first place.

And the trouble with tranquilizer darts is that they don't work like they do in films. Anything that's gentle enough not to kill the beast outright is going to take minutes to set in, which would be plenty of time to finish killing that fellow and see whom else is around.

SF Zoo mission statement

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

At the San Francisco Zoo, it's our mission to connect people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature and advance conservation action.

[malcygoff.livejournal.com]

A terrible shame, Tigers are rare enough creatures and any needless death of one (or of any living creature really) is something to be mourned.

the fence being only 3/4 of the height it was meant to be is what is being blamed. I think that the Zoo's defence of "but it passed inspection ok" was a bit lame, then I tend to be of the opinion that people should put their hands up to mistakes.

[kest]

yeah, it makes me sad too. it's still one of the top news stories here a week later, of course, and it doesn't sound like they're any closer to knowing what happened, but they definitely suspect that the 'youths' had something to do with it.