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tiger attacking roy

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Ocuflox

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ok i am so sick up people on the radio saying that it was the tigers fault for attacking roy. I am from las vegas and a bio/psych major. I can tell you that it doesnt matter if the white tiger was born in captive. It is still a WILD animal. It has basic animal instincts. It would take 100s to 1000s generations using artificial selection to get a semi tame tiger. I mean seriously what do u expect to happen when you play with fire. No doubt that this was a tradegy but still come on...what do u expect when u put ur face inches away from a tiger's mouth.
 
Who's been saying that on the radio? If they've been saying that they are idiots. You can never tame a goddamn tiger, no matter how nice you are to it. I mean, sometimes it's even impossible to tame regular house cats!

I am just surprised those guys haven't been chewed up before this...
 
I am glad we finally have someone who is a qualified on Vegas White Tigers. Yes, people. Ocuflox is FROM Las Vegas, and he is a biology / psychology major. Combined, he is a foremost authority on show tiger attacks.
 
Actually, on some news program they had an animal expert who said that it was possible that the tiger was *DEFENDING* Roy by dragging him away from all the "threats" it saw on stage. That would explain its actions a lot more; if an animal is bred in captivity away from other members of its species, it may consider the option of a surrogate family member -- for example, see the terry cloth surrogate monkey study.

If it was actually attacking Roy, it wouldn't have just run off with Roy's head in its mouth, I don't think.
 
Originally posted by: m2kewl
tiger (mauling roy): "mmmm...taste like chikn"

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repost 🙂 i wuz the first 🙂

There is a video of the incident....we need a press pass to view it or a haxor to get in yahoo.

 
After reading a book about a zoologist who spent hundreds of days trapped in a small enclosure with a tiger I can tell you a few things:

- The Tiger will not attack you if it thinks you are the dominant Alpha Male.
- Even if you are the dominant alpha male, if you invade its territory and it thinks you are a threat it WILL attack.
- If the tiger thinks you are the Alpha male, but it gets fed up with you and your alpha dominancy is not firmly established it will likely attack you.
- Yes, tiger's are animals. They follow instinct. They don't have a sense of loyalty. They don't attack, or they do, mostly based on what they believe there social status is in relation to other tigers - or in this case a human.
 
Originally posted by: bothered
After reading a book about a zoologist who spent hundreds of days trapped in a small enclosure with a tiger I can tell you a few things:

- The Tiger will not attack you if it thinks you are the dominant Alpha Male.
- Even if you are the dominant alpha male, if you invade its territory and it thinks you are a threat it WILL attack.
- If the tiger thinks you are the Alpha male, but it gets fed up with you and your alpha dominancy is not firmly established it will likely attack you.
- Yes, tiger's are animals. They follow instinct. They don't have a sense of loyalty. They don't attack, or they do, mostly based on what they believe there social status is in relation to other tigers - or in this case a human.
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Ummm how do you get trapped for hundreds of days with a tiger, all the while deciphering the social system of panthera tigris, yet can't seem to find your way out of a cage?
 
Originally posted by: bothered
After reading a book about a zoologist who spent hundreds of days trapped in a small enclosure with a tiger I can tell you a few things:

- The Tiger will not attack you if it thinks you are the dominant Alpha Male.
- Even if you are the dominant alpha male, if you invade its territory and it thinks you are a threat it WILL attack.
- If the tiger thinks you are the Alpha male, but it gets fed up with you and your alpha dominancy is not firmly established it will likely attack you.
- Yes, tiger's are animals. They follow instinct. They don't have a sense of loyalty. They don't attack, or they do, mostly based on what they believe there social status is in relation to other tigers - or in this case a human.
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- The Tiger will not attack you if it thinks you are the dominant Alpha Male.

that one statement invalidates the next one - Even if you are the dominant alpha male, if you invade its territory and it thinks you are a threat it WILL attack.



 
Originally posted by: sygyzy
I am glad we finally have someone who is a qualified on Vegas White Tigers. Yes, people. Ocuflox is FROM Las Vegas, and he is a biology / psychology major. Combined, he is a foremost authority on show tiger attacks.
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OMG. hahahaha. I don't know why, but i just found that so funny. pwned.
 
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