My favorite thing about my blog is the comments. I'm proud that I've cultivated a readership that is intelligent, thoughtful, passionate, reasonable, tolerant, irreverent, knowledgeable, and funny. I'm very happy to belong to a community of adults who have similar interests and different opinions, and the ability to express them with insight, ( Read more... )

Sorry I jumped to blame the victim, but it appears I was rightOkay, so the wall was four feet shorter than the AZA recommendations state. It still took 60 years for someone to be obnoxious enough to annoy the tiger into jumping out ( Read more... )

Things starting to look worse for SFZoo...

This article shows that the barrier at the tiger enclosure is not as high as was earlier claimed, and the report of a shoe and blood past the barrier fence was not true. Thanks to bicoastal for the heads up.

Whoa! Not sure how I missed this story, but I just read (in two places on my friends list so far) that there was a tiger escape at the San Francisco zoo, resulting in one human death and one tiger death: ( Read more... )

Animal lover mauled to death after entering cheetah cage at Belgian zoo

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Vulture bites.

( Don't worry, it's not too gory, but I won't make you look at my leg if you don't want to. )

I just posted several stories to the animal_attacks community, because I found them while I was looking for the New York Times magazine feature story "Are we driving elephants crazy?" (or some such--as heard on npr) But many of you may not know about the animal_attacks community, and if not, you should go check it out. It's just links to media about animal ( Read more... )

"This happens all the time in poor areas and people think it's funny, but when it happens in a rich neighborhoods they start calling them attacks," Carvalho said.

Hawks Attack More Than 100 People in Rio
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