Tiger. check
Bear. check
Posted on 01/11/2010 6:48:35 PM PST by george76
Wild animals are always wild. It is instinct for them. We set the table for them if we forget for an instant that the wildness is always there.
Howdy, Free! How are you and Mrs. Free doing?
Agreed. That’s responsibility.
While I’m not disagreeing with your statement, I have to wonder how domesticated cats and dogs became domesticated. They were once wild animals as well. Some crazy person had to risk getting bitten or killed to try to “domesticate” these animals....just a thought.
Probably the same way dogs were domesticated from wolves.
Remember, we’re not talking about “house cats.” We’re talking about HUGE cats. Although there is probably a common ancestor, the breeds are separated by size.
While an ocelot may be a good choice for the ancestor of “house cats,” the fact remains that neither dogs nor house cats were domesticated overnight.
The same is true with farm animals. While water buffalo can be domesticated for farm work, their wild cousins are nothing to mess with.
It’s taken millenia to get where we are with our “domesticated” animals. Once house cats are left to their own devices, they become feral, and that is a fact. Even house cats can become dangerous under the right conditions.
Cat got your tongue?
Tiger. check
Bear. check
Wild animals have that name for a reason.....
...and a number of other organs.
“Oh that is so sad. The poor poor woman, how horrifying.”
Actually, the video audio track indicates she tried to drive the bear off by hitting it on the head with a cast iron frying pan. Had she managed to hit the end of the snout with the edge of the pan, she might still be alive.
Bears that size have skulls thick enough to bounce bullets, let alone frying pans wielded by a blond.
The end of the snout is very tender and fragile in comparison.
Howsumever, a firearm would have made a difference.
Recognizing that the salmon run was meager, and that bears would therefore be abnormally hungry, would have made a difference if Treadwell had thought of it.
“Bear Scat” is perhaps unfairly dismissed because of his insistence that bears were ‘furry persons’. Had he had a bit more science and some judgment, he might have been better received.
However, if one assumes human life to be more valuable than any animal’s life, then he and blondie should have been carrying sidearms AND had a bear rifle in the camp.
To not so have done is why the FR community rightly sees him as something of a raving nutter instead of an animal behavior researcher with both originality and persistence.
LOL. Thanks for the pic. Yeah, that’s what I mean. Anthromorphization of wild beasts tends to dumb down some folks.
Possibly? WTF, is the author worried about a lawsuit by the tiger for falsely accusing it of a crime?
Or, perhaps, the author was familiar with the Sherlock Holmes story 'The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger'. ;-)
Though he should have added 'by the tiger', since some sort of attack had obviously taken place.
“Wasn’t there some woman up in British Columbia who was fighting for mountain lion habitat or something and wound up being killed and eaten by one? Now that’s gratitude for you.”
I think you may be thinking of Maya’s Mom. I talked with her about photos of the wounds inflicted on her daughter’s head by the attacking cougar. Having detailed why such photos were valuable in terms of educating the public so that future cougar management might prevent such suffering, i still sensed she would not send the photos.
She didn’t, and instead has become another cougar advocate.
I sometimes wonder if GangGreen pays off such people.
Any one have any reason why a mother would become the advocate of an animal population that nearly killed and ate her child?
Jeebus———they’re almost as bad as pit bulls!
I didn’t think ANYone was willing to advocate for Tiger Woods any more.
“Freedom includes the freedom to be stupid.”
I recently finished “The Grizzly Maze” By Nick Jans which dealt with the life and death of Timothy Treadwell and Amie H. (As well as the bears killed during the recovery operation)
Jans, without any warning at all decides to bust out with FReerepublic quotes and refs in the middle of the book (lol) which kinda took me by surprise. Personally I like mah books and my internets to remain segregated.
tl;dr
Read the book if you get a chance lol.
Now I’ll have to hunt down a copy, if only to see if I’m quoted.
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