Some girl in Moscow saw a snow leopard (yeah, yeah I know the pic isn’t of a snow leopard, chill.) near the edge of its cage and thought it would be cute to pet it since it was so pretty. So she stuck her hand in.
The description of what ensued reminds me a lot of a TV show I saw last month in which a panda gets ahold of a zoo visitor’s coat and traps him against the cage with it, and then starts trying to get at the person. This person being over the safety railing and right up against the cage to begin with.
According to the girl, the cat looked “peaceful” so she decided to pet it. In thanks, the leopard bit off her finger.
Is it just me or does stuff like this happen several times a year around the world? I guess the numbers naturally lend themselves towards someone, somewhere getting mauled in any given block of time, but you’d hope (or I would, anyway) that it would be in the wild where people weren’t messing with some of the largest, most vicious predators the earth has known in recent history as though they’re — for some reason — cuddly.
There was a naturalist guy who died last year because he was tracking a grizzly around the woods. Alone. He disappeared and, I don’t know, a month or two later they found his mauled and mostly-dismembered-body. The bear got him. Imagine that. Later they found the bear, with a full clip of small-arms ammunition embedded in his body, just going on about his business.
People don’t understand that these animals were designed by evolution over millions of years to kill things, and they’re very good at it. So of course they want to act like 2 year olds and run up to every dog they see to pet it, like Mr. Anarchy’s rottweiler is going to appreciate that.
Tomorrow, you can look forward to a non-rant.
More info on this incident at MosNews.
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October 6th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
i see im a little late butstill
dumbasses will be dumbasses. Because of them, people like me who take the time to learn the animals, get familiar with them and there behaviors as an individual gets punished for it. i have worked with the exotic cats for over 6 years, im not just petting them through the cage but actualy spend a lot of time in the cages with them and to date i have not ever needed first aid due to a injury received by a cat. im trying to start a captive conservation facility with the cats and because of people like that and then people blowing it out of proportion i have to spend thousands of dollars on permits and licencing alone, money i could better spend by putting it towards the cats be it my cats or sending it overseas to help wild populations which is what my goal is.
-kyle