Jaguar won't be euthanized after zoo attack on selfie-taking Arizona woman, officials say

FoxNews.com ^ | Mar 11, 2019 | Katherine Lam | Fox News

[bigbob]

That was just a love pat.

[Avalon Memories]

Well, in the case of people like this idiot woman, yes it’s worth their lives...and good riddence.

[Fresh Wind]

Unfortunately, Harambe the gorilla isn’t available for comment.

[dfwgator]

[Bonemaker]

Woman should be euthanized.

[FourtySeven]

“Is it really worth your life?”

Have you ever gotten over 20 likes for a photo? If not, you’ll never understand man!

(Humorless need to insert their own sarc tag here)

[bgill]

Thank goodness. Usually they kill the animal when it’s the stupid human who’s at fault.

[Fresh Wind]

Jaguar:

“The greatest crumpet-catcher known to man,” as US journalist Henry Manney described it.

[dfwgator]

[central_va]

I wonder if that is real.

[ETL]

[central_va]

Why isn’t she bleeding?

[Fresh Wind]

Fake but accurate.

[dfwgator]

It’s from the movie “Crazy People”.

[mad_as_he$$]

Yup Disney did it. Currently in my area there is a debate about how to deal with the cute and cuddly urban coyotes. They were here first don’t you know. The bleeding hearts were winning the argument until the coyotes entered a backyard and killed a small dog. Pulled it’s guts out and left it yammering while it slowly died. Then they left the carcass more or less intact. Stopped the discussion for two weeks now from the pro-coyote crowd.

[tinyowl]

I am similarly often attacked by a little viking cougar. Here we have a smile, but 3 seconds later my hand will lay bloody next to my keyboard.

[Durbin]

Good. It makes zero sense to punish the animal for the human’s stupidity.

[dfwgator]

until the coyotes entered a backyard and killed a small dog. Pulled it’s guts out and left it yammering while it slowly died. Then they left the carcass more or less intact.

It's one of those "Circle of Life" kind of things.

[Red Badger]

And bears......................

[ETL]

Jaguars

Color variation

A melanistic jaguar is a color morph which occurs at about 6 percent frequency in populations

Melanistic jaguars are informally known as black panthers, but as with all forms of polymorphism they do not form a separate species.

The black morph is less common than the spotted morph, estimated at occurring in about 6% of the South American jaguar population.[35]

In Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental, the first black jaguar was recorded in 2004.[36]

Some evidence indicates that the melanistic allele is dominant, and being supported by natural selection.[37]

The black form may be an example of heterozygote advantage; breeding in captivity is not yet conclusive on this.

Melanistic jaguars (or “black” jaguars) occur primarily in parts of South America, and are virtually unknown in wild populations residing in the subtropical and temperate regions of North America; they have never been documented north of Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec.[38]

Extremely rare albino individuals, sometimes called white panthers, also occur among jaguars, as with the other big cats.[24]

As usual with albinos in the wild, selection keeps the frequency close to the rate of mutation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar#Colour_variation