Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Tiger kills man at San Francisco Zoo
I suppose I should be shocked and upset by this news story, but I'm not. You can't blame a tiger for being a tiger. I am a little sad they had to shoot the tiger, but I guess you can't just leave a tiger alone while it munches on a bystander.
This bothers the same way that man-eating grizzlies being shot does. Why blame the grizzly for being a grizzly? Isn't the hiker much more to blame for blundering into the grizzly in the grizzly's home? A brain and upright walking only go so far in survival. You have to know when to use both of them. If 80,000 years ago, Ugh the caveman didn't think, "There grizzly, grizzly bad, me run" and then beat feet, we wouldn't be here to complain about "wild" animals.
And besides, how smart are we if we can't keep a tiger in its cage in San Francisco? I have to say, that while I like zoos, I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea of them. Why take some poor old tiger/lion/bear or even mouse/frog/fish and coop them up in a cage - no matter how cool looking the cage. I don't blame the tiger for getting pissed and chowing down on some guy. If I was him, I'd get pissed too.
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