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UnfairRepresent
10/09/18 12:31:13 PM
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A rare white tiger reportedly mauled a zookeeper to death inside the animal's enclosure in southern Japan, officials said Tuesday.

Police said 40-year-old Akira Furusho was found bleeding from his neck and lying on the floor Monday evening inside the cage at Hirakawa Zoological Park in the southern city of Kagoshima. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

Autopsy results are pending.

Zoo officials said they believe Furusho went inside the cage to clean the enclosure and was probably attacked while trying to move a male tiger to its night cage.

Tigers are normally moved from the display pen to a separate area before staff enter.

The male tiger, named Riku, was sedated with a tranquilizer before first responders and police arrived, the BBC reported.

"We plan not to kill Riku and continue to keep it because the bereaved family asked us to do so," zoo official Takuro Nagasako told AFP.

The 375-pound animal is one of four rare white tigers at the city-operated zoo.

Officials said they are investigating whether proper safety procedures were in place at the zoo. No one reportedly saw the moment of the attack.

The white tiger area was closed to the public while police investigate.


FUll Article: https://www.foxnews.com/world/rare-375-pound-white-tiger-reportedly-mauls-zookeeper-in-japan

RFOszHP

I have to appluad the family to have the mental accumen to not call for the tiger to be destroyed.

That's entirely the correct and rational thing to do but it's hard to be rational and logical when dealing wirh the loss of family. So big props to them
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spudger
10/09/18 12:32:07 PM
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yeah its terrible but those ppl know the risks dealing with wild animals
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Were_Wyrm
10/09/18 12:33:43 PM
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monkmith
10/09/18 12:34:40 PM
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i've handled tigers in a zoo before, cardinal rule is to NEVER ENTER THE CAGE WITH THEM!!!!! either he broke protocol or that zoo is horribly designed.
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UnfairRepresent
10/09/18 12:35:31 PM
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monkmith posted...
i've handled tigers i

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andel
10/09/18 12:36:00 PM
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really sucks for the guy and his family but as previously stated i do commend them for not calling for the tiger to be killed. tough situation but it isnt like a rabid dog, tigers are apex predators and not expected to be docile
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SageHarpuiaHX
10/09/18 12:37:33 PM
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Why are we preserving this species?
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monkmith
10/09/18 12:38:06 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
monkmith posted...
i've handled tigers i

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHVR485txX8" data-time="

it must suck not to grow up near a major zoo huh? volunteer work was fun.
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wiiking96
10/09/18 12:46:02 PM
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SageHarpuiaHX posted...
Why are we preserving this species?

Because it looks cool.
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UnfairRepresent
10/09/18 12:47:49 PM
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monkmith posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
monkmith posted...
i've handled tigers i

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHVR485txX8" data-time="

it must suck not to grow up near a major zoo huh? volunteer work was fun.

That's exactly why I don't believe you.

Unlike you I actually did live near a zoo for years and unlike you I volunteered during the summer when they needed help because I love animals.

And unlike you I know full well that no zoo lets "volunteers" or even novice zookeepers near Tigers or dangerous creatures.

No one casually "Handled Tigers" you have to be an experienced zookeeper for years before they let you go near them
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andel
10/09/18 12:48:41 PM
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Outer_space posted...
White privilege.


lol
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monkmith
10/09/18 12:53:31 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
monkmith posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
monkmith posted...
i've handled tigers i

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHVR485txX8" data-time="

it must suck not to grow up near a major zoo huh? volunteer work was fun.

That's exactly why I don't believe you.

Unlike you I actually did live near a zoo for years and unlike you I volunteered during the summer when they needed help because I love animals.

And unlike you I know full well that no zoo lets "volunteers" or even novice zookeepers near Tigers or dangerous creatures.

No one casually "Handled Tigers" you have to be an experienced zookeeper for years before they let you go near them

huh, well mine sure as hell did. maybe better cages? there were automated portals between the outside exhibit and the interior feeding area; tigers were trained to enter the feeding area when a buzzer went off, when they were locked in there it was perfectly safe to go shovel the tiger crap from the exhibit. definitely not the most dangerous thing they had me do, that would likely be cleaning up/collecting eggs from the ostrich exhibit. that mostly involved one person cleaning and 3 people corralling the damn things.

they didn't let volunteers do that until you were 18 though, before that all you could do was help run the summer camps.
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UnfairRepresent
10/09/18 12:55:32 PM
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monkmith posted...

huh, well mine sure as hell did.

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monkmith
10/09/18 12:57:09 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
monkmith posted...

huh, well mine sure as hell did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHVR485txX8" data-time="

meh, like i said, sucks to be you i guess.
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UnfairRepresent
10/09/18 12:59:56 PM
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monkmith posted...
sucks to be you

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DirkDiggles
10/09/18 1:05:58 PM
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Shoveling tiger crap while the tiger is locked somewhere else isn't the same as handling a tiger. lol
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YonicBoom
10/09/18 1:09:19 PM
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Saw this in the Japanese news I was reading last night.

Sad, but the tiger deserves to live, glad to see that people are being reasonable about this. In an American zoo this tiger would have been euthanized, probably...
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UnfairRepresent
10/09/18 1:09:28 PM
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DirkDiggles posted...
Shoveling tiger crap while the tiger is locked somewhere else isn't the same as handling a tiger. lol

He's going to change his story every step of the way from now on so there's no real point talking to him
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Hicks233
10/09/18 2:12:02 PM
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SageHarpuiaHX posted...
Why are we preserving this species?

Merchandising.
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Lordgold666
10/09/18 2:15:58 PM
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Fair, next

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monkmith
10/09/18 2:57:19 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
DirkDiggles posted...
Shoveling tiger crap while the tiger is locked somewhere else isn't the same as handling a tiger. lol

He's going to change his story every step of the way from now on so there's no real point talking to him

pretty sure you cant read, i never once said i entered the cage with them...

though if you want to split hairs i did get to pet them when they were cubs when i was an 8yo. the keeper that worked with them up until they died a few years ago took them home for the first few weeks to hand feed the. she ended up bringing them to the summer camp.
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Vyrulisse
10/09/18 2:58:21 PM
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KamenRiderBlade
10/09/18 3:12:36 PM
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That's a cute big kitty!
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kinetika_
10/09/18 3:13:33 PM
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Everytime I read an arctile about a wild animal mauling a human, I just shug and think to myself: "And?" Am i supposed to be sad, or what exactly? That's what they do.
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Colorahdo
10/09/18 3:18:24 PM
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white tigers aren't rare

they only exist in zoos, first of all, and there are tons of them in zoos
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UnfairRepresent
10/09/18 3:18:53 PM
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kinetika_ posted...
Everytime I read an arctile about a wild animal mauling a human, I just shug and think to myself: "And?" Am i supposed to be sad, or what exactly? That's what they do.

Wow you have no empathy
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Garioshi
10/09/18 3:21:21 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
monkmith posted...
sucks to be you

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glitteringfairy
10/09/18 3:21:23 PM
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Is this yet another example of white privilege?
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kinetika_
10/09/18 3:26:17 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
kinetika_ posted...
Everytime I read an arctile about a wild animal mauling a human, I just shug and think to myself: "And?" Am i supposed to be sad, or what exactly? That's what they do.

Wow you have no empathy


It's a wild animal -- one that's being caged at that. Now when its a domesticated one (which tigers are not), then I feel sympathy and wonder what caused the animal to act in such a way. If a family member of mine shared that same fate, I'd be sad, of course, but also understanding in that they knew the risks and not want to punish a wild animal for its behavior.
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rikasa
10/09/18 3:37:36 PM
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I do feel bad for the guy who died. I'm not sure but it sounds like he's just an employee doing his job. Maybe he did something wrong that spooked the cat or maybe it was just a random thing. It's definitely sad but like everyone else said I'm glad they're not "destroying" it.
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SuperMedz3
10/09/18 3:39:37 PM
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Outer_space posted...
White privilege.

Remember when people were saying if the kid that fell in the ape pen was black they would not have shot it?
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UnfairRepresent
10/09/18 3:49:51 PM
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SuperMedz3 posted...
Outer_space posted...
White privilege.

Remember when people were saying if the kid that fell in the ape pen was black they would not have shot it?

wut
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LimboTraveller
10/09/18 3:52:07 PM
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"We plan not to kill Riku and continue to keep it because the bereaved family asked us to do so,"

Holy shit , i would never be able to be as forgiving as that family
japanese really has some new level of cool-headed-ness
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UnfairRepresent
10/10/18 3:02:09 PM
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LimboTraveller posted...
"We plan not to kill Riku and continue to keep it because the bereaved family asked us to do so,"

Holy shit , i would never be able to be as forgiving as that family
japanese really has some new level of cool-headed-ness

For sure
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Damn_Underscore
10/10/18 3:03:59 PM
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harambe should be alive today
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Damn_Underscore
10/10/18 3:06:06 PM
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LimboTraveller posted...
"We plan not to kill Riku and continue to keep it because the bereaved family asked us to do so,"

Holy shit , i would never be able to be as forgiving as that family
japanese really has some new level of cool-headed-ness


How would it benefit them if the tiger was killed?
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thanosibe
10/10/18 3:10:46 PM
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LimboTraveller posted...
"We plan not to kill Riku and continue to keep it because the bereaved family asked us to do so,"

Holy shit , i would never be able to be as forgiving as that family
japanese really has some new level of cool-headed-ness
Why does an animal being an animal, much less an animal caged by humans that naturally roams free, attacking humans around them because of their situation stir up vengeful thoughts?

It's a case of humans being so preoccupied with whether they can they never stop to think if they should, to paraphrase a clique quote.
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