Given that the average tiger enclosure is about 18,000 times smaller than the animals' natural roaming range, it is simply impossible for these animals to express instinctual behaviors, such as staking out territory in dense forests, choosing mates, running, climbing trees, and hunting.ĭangerous incidents with captive big cats are not uncommon. No "educational" program is worth sacrificing animals' well-being. Scientists at Oxford University have concluded that big cats and other wide-roaming predators become neurotic when they are confined. There are some species-including tigers-that simply do not belong in captivity because of their extraordinarily complicated physical and psychological needs. The San Francisco Zoo has already established itself as a facility that takes animal welfare issues seriously, including the zoo's honorable decision in 2004 to close its elephant exhibit and send its elephants to a sanctuary. While authorities investigate the circumstances surrounding Tatiana's escape and the tragic mauling of several zoo visitors, PETA is asking that the zoo give serious consideration to phasing out its tiger exhibit. Mollinedo, Executive Director and President Close down the SF zoo, and then close down the rest of the zoos in the world. Move the remaining animals to wildlife preserves and sanctuaries. Let this be the last time ever that a caged animal is set loose upon unsuspecting humans.
Thoughts for family and friends of the injured and killed. One or more of the people responsible for this particular animal should go to jail for a long time. Stop trying to beat them into dank submission. Stop crushing the souls of these animals. I'd be willing to entertain the notion of wildlife preserves, but the time for zoos is up. That zoo cage designers continue to underestimate an enraged animal's abilities should not be a surprise to anyone. That zoos all over the world are underfunded and treat their animals like trash should not be a surprise to anyone. That a wild animal being treated in an inhumane fashion decides to go batshit crazy and attack and kill people should not be a surprise to anyone. They're criminally inhumane to the animals, no matter how much some book might have led you to believe otherwise. We need to close down all zoos immediately. The dead man was 23 years old the two survivors, whom a paramedic described as having wounds 'all over' their bodies, were brothers aged 19 and 18, friends of the victim. All three men who were attacked were zoo patrons, not workers, and were attacked not in or near the tiger's pen, but outside the Terrace Cafe.
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