NationStates Jolt Archive

Gotta love this story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060103/od_nm/animals_dc

A few highlights:

A South African mugger fleeing the scene of his crime hides in a tiger enclosure. Not surprisingly, he was mauled to death by the big cats.
On the country's coast, a woman attempts to be a good Samaritan by pushing a young seal into the sea, believing the poor thing is stranded. The seal responded by biting off the woman's nose.
Max, a 200 kg (440 lb) gorilla, won fame in 1997 after being wounded by a terrified gunman who jumped a moat into his space in Johannesburg's zoo while fleeing police. Max pinned the fugitive against the wall of his enclosure and guarded him even after being shot until police arrived, making him an instant folk hero in crime-ridden South Africa
In April of this year, an elephant gored a tourist to death in a Ugandan national park after the man, carrying an 8-year-old boy in his arms, approached the animal's calf.
Lions mauled a South African teen-ager in March who came too close to their enclosure while trying to impress his girlfriend.
A couple from Taiwan got out of their car to photograph lions up close at a South African game park -- and who were quickly savaged to death by the beasts.

Natural selection is a beautiful thing.

:p

cats do ;) they know when people hate them as they tease them my auntie hates cats and our cats would terrorise her

There's proof for evolution right there. :)

Ouch

I remember seeing a video, of a guy getting out of the car to get close to the lions. At the end all you hear is screaming and see the lions starting to feed. :eek:

Gotta love this story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060103/od_nm/animals_dc

A few highlights:

A South African mugger fleeing the scene of his crime hides in a tiger enclosure. Not surprisingly, he was mauled to death by the big cats.
On the country's coast, a woman attempts to be a good Samaritan by pushing a young seal into the sea, believing the poor thing is stranded. The seal responded by biting off the woman's nose.
Max, a 200 kg (440 lb) gorilla, won fame in 1997 after being wounded by a terrified gunman who jumped a moat into his space in Johannesburg's zoo while fleeing police. Max pinned the fugitive against the wall of his enclosure and guarded him even after being shot until police arrived, making him an instant folk hero in crime-ridden South Africa
In April of this year, an elephant gored a tourist to death in a Ugandan national park after the man, carrying an 8-year-old boy in his arms, approached the animal's calf.
Lions mauled a South African teen-ager in March who came too close to their enclosure while trying to impress his girlfriend.
A couple from Taiwan got out of their car to photograph lions up close at a South African game park -- and who were quickly savaged to death by the beasts.

Natural selection is a beautiful thing.

:p

This says quite a bit:

"I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you," said James Cameron, a South African professional hunter.

That must be why I prefer animals and vice versa. :p

Yeah, I was once saw a woman pushing her toddler toward a deer at a national park. The deer looked like it was about to go agro so I shooed it off. The woman wasn't too happy with me. I tried to explain to her that deer are not Bambi and can be pretty hostile if cornered. Did I interfere with natural selection?

It just reminds me of how much I enjoy reading the nominees for the Darwin Awards every year.

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/

Check 'em out.

Yeah, I was once saw a woman pushing her toddler toward a deer at a national park. The deer looked like it was about to go agro so I shooed it off. The woman wasn't too happy with me. I tried to explain to her that deer are not Bambi and can be pretty hostile if cornered. Did I interfere with natural selection?

Hee hee

Reminds me of the Cartoon Network short where the environmentalists try to set Wally Gator free. At the end this little lizard looks at the environmentalist now stuck in the swamp and yells "Eat me! Yer messin' with the order! Ya don't go messin' with the order!!"

I remember seeing a video, of a guy getting out of the car to get close to the lions. At the end all you hear is screaming and see the lions starting to feed. :eek:

yeah I remember that. Stupid bloody moron.

Yeah, I was once saw a woman pushing her toddler toward a deer at a national park. The deer looked like it was about to go agro so I shooed it off. The woman wasn't too happy with me. I tried to explain to her that deer are not Bambi and can be pretty hostile if cornered. Did I interfere with natural selection?

Sort of. But you did potentially save the life of the baby ;)

Our wildlife are better are fighting crime than our police force, sadly.

Yes, natural selection is a wonderful thing. Some people are just too stupid for their own good.