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Tiger kills visitor inside Delhi (India) zoo.
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evil solrac v3.0
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It's not a thing it's a living creature, a tiger!
i can't remember the last time I needed to get ripped to go to the zoo. Irresponsible behavior should not be rewarded.
Well alligators and sharks have been found with tires and toilet seats in their stomachs. Guess we should protect those items as well. It's a stupid line of thinking that needs to die. Animals don't develop a taste for anything in particular, they hungry they eat.
You might want to Reread your posts.
What can anyone do besides distract the tiger? Then you're the target. I'm not dying for some drunk dumbass that wanted to get up close for kitty.
They do have safety measures. Hey have a moat around the enclosure, they have a 15 foot fence and a smaller fence around the moat. What more do you want? Electrified fences? Here's a thought, maybe people should follow the zoos instructions once in a while.
LaserBuddha
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If you think someone deserves to die for throwing rocks then you have some serious issues to work out.
I_R_ Patch
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In a nutshell stupid human does stupid, cat does what cat does, which of these was preventable?
Maybe not "deserves" to die, but... well, the boy took a risk, and lost. It was a deserved outcome considering the risk.
I do feel very sorry for the man, even if his behaviour was unwise (I've seen reports that he may have been suffering from mental health problems, although that's unconfirmed) - it's an awful way to die. Fortunately it seems the tiger isn't being killed, but just monitored by zoo staff for now. I hope he'll be allowed to live.
Yes, big cats do have amazing strength. Even leopards are capable of hauling a carcass weighing 60kg or more straight up a tree.
Yes, big cats do have amazing strength. Even leopards are capable of hauling a carcass weighing 60kg or more straight up a tree.
Now I want to do this.
Ingueferroque
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He was throwing rocks at a defenseless, caged creature. Can't say he is blameless.
Yup. I actually think you deserve to be mauled by a tiger for this comment.
I don't. It's a pretty stupid thing to say.
LaserBuddha
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Well good then you can go tell that to someone who said he was blameless.
You get drunk and are capable of doing very stupid things. It's irresponsible but you do not deserve to die for it, short of taking another persons life.
CitizenCope
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I've been pretty much desensitized to everything in video form. I can watch a beheading yet watching this was very troublesome.
No, it doesn't go either way. Saying you're okay with someone being killed, doesn't mean the alternative option is that the tiger has to die. It's a ridiculously stupid thing to say.
This video is disturbing.
You're changing the scenario. No one suggested someone jump in there with him ffs.
If true, then I'd agree. Well, maybe not "deserve" to die, but I don't feel sorry for him.
Khaos_Knight
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The guard told him to stay back but the dude didn't listen. Oh well, he brought that on himself.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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terrible way to go, but if he really climbed a tree to throw rocks at the tiger, welp....rip is all I can say.
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MeisaMcCaffrey
The tiger was born in that zoo, it had never killed before. I guess it must have taken a few minutes for its natural instincts to kick in. People throwing stones at it just made it worse.
abstract alien
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If this is true, then yeah, what happened was natural selection.
150lbs is shit to a tiger, one of the reasons you be as careful as possible when dealing with them.
If this is true, nothing of value was lost.
Ultimadrago
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That tiger looked so confused and startled through it all. I feel bad for it.
Androidsleeps
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Did they kill the tiger now? If so, why? The tiger must suffer consequences for its action?!
evil solrac v3.0
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so you're not going to question the man for throwing rocks but instead feel sorry for his stupid behavior.
seeing the video and the fact that the Tiger didn't seem aggressive at all, I think this could have worked. but Zoo staff fucked up.
so you aren't going ask why the guy was drunk at a Zoo? or why he wasn't following the guard's directions.
so what do you suggest? and I don't think killing the Tiger is an option, that's not fair.
I doubt the Tiger wanted to "kill" the guy so much as he was curious I guess. we'll never know...
they didn't kill the Tiger.
I'd have to hear from animal behaviorists before I'd agree with that. An animal learns what is considered easy prey and will continue to hunt that.
Obviously this is a completely different situation than an animal in the wild. This zoo tiger isn't given a choice of prey and does not deserve to be killed. A gator hunting children is significantly different.
I hope not. Tiger didn't do anything wrong. It followed it's instincts. Someone should have helped the guy though within 15 minutes. I'm surprised the tiger didn't attack him immediately if it saw him throwing rocks.
abstract alien
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I'm glad they didn't. Good forbid a creature be upset over imprisonment. Poor imprisonment at that.
It isn't even about imprisonment, tigers are hardwired to eat other animals. Its how they live, and a big squishy meal threw itself directly into the tigers face. What else is the tiger going to do?
abstract alien
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You took my comment a bit too literally Lol. A false environment isn't helping either way.
He picked him up like a person picks up a piece of chicken. The weight of the human body was nothing to him.
Then he deserves to be arrested and charged, not mauled to death by a tiger.
You might want to follow reading comprehension. If saving a human means killing a tiger, then yes, kill the fucking tiger. Killing the tiger after the fact because of vengeance is stupid, which is what I was responding to. The fact that people in here would rather sacrifice a living human being for a tiger is fucked up. You can be for wildlife preservation and love animals, and also kill a tiger if it's endangering someone.
Was the dude an idiot? Yes, does that mean he deserves to be mauled by a tiger because you hate zoos and value a tiger over a person? Fuck no.
I just randomly googled around to see if there were any updates on this, no idea if this is a valid source but:
Maqsood's obsession with tigers led to his death
Maqsood's obsession with tigers led to his death
I think a lot of you see the word Zoo and then compare it to the well state and federally funded zoos of your childhood in places like the US or UK, and then compare it to India which is still developing.
I very much doubt the guards they've hired are qualified to fire tranquilizer rifles, have the supplies on hand, etc. Labor is extremely cheap and I doubt they have 60k a year making vets and animal control officers on hand like in the US.
As for the situation, it's sad. What can you do? Unlike here, you don't really have a safety first mindset everywhere else, especially India. The man was supposedly drunk and then the onlookers agitated and scared it, and so it decided it didn't want to lose a potential meal and dragged it away to get away from the stones and noise. Had they not done anything, the tiger would have kept waiting or pawing at him. Additionally, I bet the tigers and wild animals are also not adequately fed, so you cannot blame a wild, apex predator for being hungry and looking at a potential meal.
I very much doubt the guards they've hired are qualified to fire tranquilizer rifles, have the supplies on hand, etc. Labor is extremely cheap and I doubt they have 60k a year making vets and animal control officers on hand like in the US.
As for the situation, it's sad. What can you do? Unlike here, you don't really have a safety first mindset everywhere else, especially India. The man was supposedly drunk and then the onlookers agitated and scared it, and so it decided it didn't want to lose a potential meal and dragged it away to get away from the stones and noise. Had they not done anything, the tiger would have kept waiting or pawing at him. Additionally, I bet the tigers and wild animals are also not adequately fed, so you cannot blame a wild, apex predator for being hungry and looking at a potential meal.
What can I say, if he played with fire like that then I'm not going to shed any tears if he ends up being burned.
In any case Tigers are endangered, especially white tigers which are super rare. Killing it, even if it was to save another human would be an utter tragedy. Violence isn't always the answer to ever problem.
That said given how much time they had you'd think the zoo employes have at least tried to distract it away using a hunk of meat as bait or something
Tell everyone to get help and to shut up themselves, tigers don't like loud outside noise. Then, try and fight or confuse the tiger as best as possible. Unlike bears, tigers/lions will drag away what they think is a corpse to eat it. Never cower or make yourself smaller than a tiger. Try and fight back, move your arms, yell loudly. Of course it's a tiger, and you're shit scared, but you'd rather lose an arm trying to punch or scare away a tiger, than cower and have it chomp on your neck and kill you. You'd think someone standing around would be wearing a belt. Use it as a whip on it etc.
I definitely agree with you that it would be tragic if the tiger was shot, and I'm glad he's only under observation at this point. White tigers aren't really endangered though, because they're not a unique subspecies of tiger. They are Bengal (or part Bengal) tigers that are homozygous for a recessive allele causing them to lack orange pigment. They are born very rarely amongst the Bengal tiger population, perhaps 1 in 10,000 births - the last recorded wild white tiger was shot in India in the 1950s. In fact, the white tigers in captivity in India are descended from a single male captured in 1951 (white tigers in the US are mostly descended from a cross-breeding between a Bengal and Siberian tiger in the 1970s). The only reason why there are so many white tigers in captivity is selective inbreeding to produce more of them for circuses and exotic animal displays. This doesn't have any conservation value, and is actively harmful to the cats, since they can be born with genetic defects as a result of the inbreeding.
Thats not really impressive to be honest. Tigers can weigh two or three times that and are way stronger than humans.
SchrodingerC
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I really hope they don't kill the tiger, it doesn't deserve to be killed because of an unfortunate accident.
The options for gators fall under either:
1. Death
or
2. Relocation/gator reserve
When you force a gator from its original home it's going to make that shitty retention pond next to your copy/paste house its home whether you like it or not.
The options for gators fall under either:
1. Death
or
2. Relocation/gator reserve
When you force a gator from its original home it's going to make that shitty retention pond next to your copy/paste house its home whether you like it or not.
alexandros
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They couldn't come up with a better rescue plan than "through rocks at the tiger" in 15 minutes' time?
Androidsleeps
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Glad they didn't
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MeisaMcCaffrey
In such a situation there's nothing you can do if a tiger decides to attack you. Nothing. It's a 200kg animal with 1050psi bite force.
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