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It’s in both the Old and New Testament. That is some selective literal reading.
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Kids are okay until I am in a public place and one of them lets rip a scream that will curdle your blood. Constantly crying, fussing and screaming. They can single handedly make a good situation absolutely miserable. I’m glad my kids are up and grown. I prefer situations where I can freely be an adult and not have to worry about underage screaming brats. Especially when their parents haven’t a clue.
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i have a friend that owns a small zoo, and he has scars all over from various encounters with the animals, and he can tell so many stories about them. one of his ears is shaped oddly and missing a hunk because this black panther suddenly decided to take him down one day. he was lucky to only lose that bit of his ear. anyway, that panther has it in for him to this very day… he says that they got along great until the cat became a teenager and decided to try and take him on for the alpha position. now, other staff have to feed it. he was giving us a tour one day and it was seriously unsettling to watch and hear that panther when he entered the area with us: it would run over to the edge of the enclosure and give that low hunting growl, and no matter where he was, that cat was angling for a good view of him. it was really something to experience. that cat HATES HIM.
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I would agree with you in almost all circumstances where people are in unexpeted/ unforeseeable danger. In this case people leave their car (while being instructed that opening a window even an inch is dangerous) and walk towards/amongst these animals as if is’t a petting zoo. This has never before happened in this park.
I’m not sure what i would do if i were to see this happening, but i guess i would be in shock and laughing hysterically. (i would not be filming, but i guess thats just showing my age).
Well, there was one rather homely, confrontational, and overly possessive keeper that we jokingly called “Old Gregg”… you can guess why.
While zoos are generally very professionally run, there are shenanigans and antics that happen. Some funny, some downright scary.
There was the time that there was a dead brown bat in the tiger enclosure (apparently that tiger had played a bit of a game of “cat and mouse” with the flying mouse overnight). We sent it out for rabies testing and BINGO! Rabies positive! A quarantined tiger, later blood titers, etc… not fun. Luckily the tiger had only smacked it out of the air and killed it, didn’t chew it etc… and did not get rabies.
Then there was the time where a pressurized syringe of etorphine (M99) glanced off of an animal and went flying over the enclosure wall into the public area. Everyone shat bricks and ran out to recover it before some little kiddie pricked his finger with it and went to sleep forever.
Actually thinking about it, most of the shenanigans weren’t actually that fun/funny.
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It’s pretty terrible and dumb on their part. It’s good that they and their children weren’t killed. I just don’t find it particularly funny in light of the children being put in harms way. It really takes about a second for the dudes in the car laughing to shout out the window something to the effect of “you’re putting your children in danger of being mauled by a wild animal, please don’t do that.” It’s like they aren’t seeing real people there, but something on TV or on Youtube.
Given that children are involved, you wouldn’t even attempt to yell out the window to stop because their kids can get killed?
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Did you ever have an attempt at a The Lion and Albert reenactment?
I hope not but feel the need to know.
Alberta naturalist Charlie Russell lived among the bears in Kamchatka, Russia, for several years and determined they are not dangerous animals.Maureen Enns Studio Ltd.
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I hope i would ( as i wrote in an earlier post: that’s what comes to mind seeing this film) but this is so beyond anything i would expect to see that i don’t know how i would react (and i know i can “panic” easily).
It’s like hoping to be a “hero” if necessary; i hope i will, but i try to forgive people/myself for failing.
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The predator has been specifically trained to look at the human and run the “doesn’t look like anything to me” subprogram.
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Never mind the many people who’ve been mauled and/or killed by them.
This guy sounds about as foolhardy as Timothy Treadwell.
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There’ll be a “you have to be this tall” sign, no worries.
It feels good to have contributed something of value to so many others.
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I don’t get the lack of honking and driving toward the cats at the end there.
Exactly!! “Hmm, banned for life from a drive-through zoo, or let a child die. What to do, what to do?”
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Not that I’m a validation addict Mindysan, but somehow your reply to my comment always gets more likes than my comment! 
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The last time I visited the National Zoo, I overheard the keepers trying to figure out how the fishing cat had gotten out of its enclosure the previous day.
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"Previous studies have shown that when the feline parasite infects mice, the rodents lose their natural fear of cats. Now the same kind of behavioural changes appear when T. gondii infects chimpanzees, the closest living relatives of humans, which usually harbour a natural fear of leopards.
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Several studies in the past have indicated that the Toxoplasma parasite can affect people’s personality by slowing down their reaction times or making them more likely to take risks."
"…previous estimates have shown the highest prevalence of persons infected to be in France, at 84%."
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