The killer tiger
[update 1/12/08: Yup, the top two tiger photos are of the siberian tiger, Tatiana, who killed a kid and was subsequently shot and killed herself.]
Back in November I posted pics from the SF Zoo. I’d only gotten to the ruminants, but had a whole non-ruminant-but-still-cool critter feature planned. But then I got busy and it never happened.
In the meantime, as you probably heard in the news a lot, one of the SF Zoo tigers got out a killed a kid on Christmas day, and mauled two other people besides.
Oi. Well, I’m not sure which tiger it was - it was a female, but I can’t sex a tiger without it laying on its back - but I got tiger pics, so it’s probably one of these. If I can find a confirmed online photo of the now-dead tiger, I’ll compare stripes and see if it’s the same one as below. But, at any rate, this was the enclosure that didn’t do its job properly. This is the tiger that was pacing a lot.
(Actually that was him yawning, but it’s a nice scary pic nonetheless).
I thought this lioness had a bizarrely stout head. I’m not sure why. I don’t know lions that well, but she’s not very gracile, as lions go. Maybe it’s one of those maneless male lions. But, I seriously doubt they’d put two males in a single cage, so probably not.
li>