Okay, I normally don’t comment much on national news, since so many other bloggers take care of that. But the San Francisco tiger attack happened in the zoo I frequented in my youth so I could not help take special interest.
The San Francisco zoo’s new tiger enclosure was not there the last time I visited, but today I read the news that they built only a 12 foot wall to keep the tiger in! 12 feet? Anyone who has ever owned a cat could tell you this is not enough. That sounds like the equivalent of trying to contain my housecat with a 18″ high wall. And he does not eat people! (I think my cat can jump four or five feet with a running start).
Here is the story Click Here.
Perhaps the zoo designers should have a look at this youtube video:
My wife and daughter pose in front of the tiger at Point Defiance a few weeks ago…I don’t know how tall their containment wall is, but I hope it’s more than 12 feet!
12′ was fine…
Apparently the 12′ was fine because the wall didn’t have any way for the tiger to get traction. There’s been a lot of speculation that the traction was provided by the mauled people in the form of their dangling legs.