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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: tombogan03884 on September 10, 2011, 02:14:34 PM
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http://news.yahoo.com/tiger-love-triangle-kills-mate-texas-zoo-222652586.html
EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - A female tiger has killed her mate at a West Texas zoo, authorities said on Friday, in a rare attack that came after months of simmering jealousy in a feline love triangle.
Three-year-old Malayan tiger Seri killed 6-year-old Wzui at about 4 p.m. on Thursday in an enclosure at El Paso Zoo, zoo spokeswoman Karla Martinez said on Friday,
As soon as the incident was reported, zookeepers closed the tiger exhibit and veterinary staff were called. They examined Wzui, and found he was dead.
"Tragic incidents such as this are not unheard of but we don't consider this common," zoo Director Steve Marshall said. Marshall described the deceased tiger as very down to earth and loving and said it would "be greatly missed."
Malayan tigers are a critically endangered species, with just 500 or so of the animals remaining in the wilds of Thailand and Malaysia, according to the World Wide Fund For Nature.
Both Seri and Wzui were on loan from other zoos as part of the American Zoo Association's Species Survival Plan to aid in their conservation through captive breeding.
Marshall said keepers had not observed any signs of aggression leading up to the attack, and that the two cats had been seen playing affectionately at the exhibit earlier in the day.
However, in June, zoo authorities reported what they called a "tiger love triangle" between Seri, Wzui and a 15-year-old female called Meli, who was transferred to El Paso from a zoo in Fresno, California, in 2001.
"The male tiger Wzui likes both females, but the two females don't like each other," the zoo said in a press release dated June 14. "The girls are jealous of each other," collections Supervisor Griselda Martinez said.
Staff expect that another tiger will be transferred to the El Paso Zoo to replace Wzui for breeding purposes.
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as they say "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" - seems it doesnt matter if you a tiger gal or a
marshal'ette woman.
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Proof that marriage exists in the animal kingdom.
(http://bp0.blogger.com/_cNviZyzb7SE/Rvll_oUvH7I/AAAAAAAAAJ0/BChL_aTSNYk/s400/marriageanimal.jpg)
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So moral of the story is, don't see several females in the same cage.
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So moral of the story is, don't see several females in the same cage.
Yes TAB, that is a good lesson to take from this story ;D
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I made that mistake in high school... dated sisters( step) Looked nothing alike, diffrent last names, went to 2 diffrent high schools and had diffrent phone numbers(you know land lines,) went to pick one up and the other answered the door.
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;D ;D ;D ;D
Which one slapped the hardest?
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I made that mistake in high school... dated sisters( step) Looked nothing alike, diffrent last names, went to 2 diffrent high schools and had diffrent phone numbers(you know land lines,) went to pick one up and the other answered the door.
Gotta "one up" ya there kid...
I was managing a neighborhood bar back in the early eighties dating four or five women at the same time for about a month or so. I got to work one Friday afternoon and four of them were sitting in the corner booth together. It turns out they all went to HS together and started comparing notes!
:o :o :o
It didn't turn out as badly as I first thought it would but that my friends, is a story for another day!
;D
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I used to work with a guy long ago that bragged about "dating" a mom and each of her two daughters (separately) over the course of a month's time.
I called BS.
He brought pictures.
He was telling the truth because it turned out that I knew them. :-\
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Her lawyers said there was a long history of abuse and she was just suffering from PTSD
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When I was in the Army, we ran a background check for a security clearance on a fellow.
The report came back and the item of most note is that he had 9 girls from his high school pregnant at the same time, two of them sisters. He was 20 and had graduated a year or two before he joined the Army.
I imagine joining the Army was the quickest and cheapest way to get as far out of town as possible.
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When I was in the Army, we ran a background check for a security clearance on a fellow.
The report came back and the item of most note is that he had 9 girls from his high school pregnant at the same time, two of them sisters. He was 20 and had graduated a year or two before he joined the Army.
I imagine joining the Army was the quickest and cheapest way to get as far out of town as possible.
I imagine he needed the free room and board as I suspect that his paycheck was consumed by child support payments.