The San Francisco Zoo Tiger Attack stories Touched off a Debate
How High Can Tigers Leap? How High Can Tigers Jump?
Were the Zoo Visitors Impaired?
Was it Right to Shoot the Tigers?
Little Baby Ginn did a story about the San Francisco Zoo tiger attack a few days ago.
In the story, which was breaking at the time she wrote, the media was speculating about how the tigers at the San Francisco Zoo might have escaped.
There were reports of boards being tossed in to help the tigers, guesses about how the tigers may have been taunted, even that someone may have opened the door for the tigers.
Jack Hanna, noted animal “expert” said it was “virtually impossible” for the tigers to have leaped from the tiger enclosure. Like any expert, just when your words get their widest media exposure, that’s when you’ll most likely to be mistaken.
About the only theory that we didn’t read in the media was that someone had slipped the tigers the key–and that one was floating around DBKP.
LBG quickly checked the references on tigers to discover that they could leap 30 feet. At that time, she could only find materials that stated the walls of the Tiger Enclosure at the SF Zoo were at most 20 feet.
Since that story, the zoo director has stated that the walls were only 12.5 feet high.
At any rate, a furious debate on tigers and their leaping abilities and whether a leap is different from a jump was set off in comments and emails.
It wasn’t the only questions debated.
Were the visitors “high”?
Was it right to shoot the tigers?
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SF Zoo Tiger Attack: Tiger Debate Touched Off
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SF Zoo Tiger Attack: Tiger Debate Touched Off
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThis was a tragic unfortunate situation for that Tiger.
There is NO question as to the reason the Tiger did in
fact escape, kill one & injure two more. This Tiger was
definetly bothered by these stupid individuals that got
what they deserved. It was 19 minutes until the first
Police officers arrived (response time could’ve been
faster!), when they arrived they found the Tiger stand-
ing over one of it’s victims. The Cops distracted the
Tiger away from the victim BUT towards them! The Tiger
was only doing what Tiger’s do and that is protecting
itself by means of deadly force. When this Tiger started
to advance on the Cops they had no choice but to shoot
this Tiger and kill it. There was no time to go out and
get a tranquilizer gun, the Tiger had just finished off
the first group of people that were bothering it and
probably figured that this second group (The cops) were
out to do the same. So there is no doubt in my mind that
if these Cops hadn’t shot the Tiger they too would’ve
been victims to this tragic incident. One must also see
that it had just turned dark at this time and that there
was no solid knowledge if there were any other big cat’s
out there on the loose. The Cop’s reacted just like any
trained Cop would, meet force with force, or put down an
immediate threat (The Tiger).
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