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re: Toddler, 3, is snatched and eaten by leopard at safari park in Uganda
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:51 am to TheCaterpillar
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:51 am to TheCaterpillar
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It is not more likely to go after a toddler now than it was before.
Of course it is. Predators survive by learning to hunt. For example if this leopard tries to take down a wildebeest bull and gets its arse kicked, it learns to avoid going after them. In this instance it went after a toddler and the result was an easy meal. Thus, this leopard now sees it can take down and get an easy meal when it sees a small human.
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Its a wild animal doing what wild animals do.
Exactly. Like I said, predators survive by learning to hunt. Trial and error. This hunt of a toddler worked for the leopard so now it takes that lesson and in the leopards mind, toddler is now on the menu is opportunity presents itself. It’s not that the leopard is evil or mean. It’s just a predator doing what predators do.
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Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:52 am to Darth_Vader
It's sort of the same thing with alligators and warning people not to feed them, as in the case with the toddler that was killed by one at Disney a few years ago. Gators will shy away from humans until they realize they can get food from them. Then they're nothing but curious.
Such a horrible story. Heartbreaking that a child has to suffer for the carelessness of the people who are supposed to be watching out for them.
Such a horrible story. Heartbreaking that a child has to suffer for the carelessness of the people who are supposed to be watching out for them.
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:53 am to Darth_Vader
I’m just here because it wasn’t a pitbull.
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:55 am to Topwater Trout
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I would like to see one shred of scientific evidence that wild animals acquire a taste for human flesh. Leopard saw potential prey and did what a leopard does.
It’s not that the leopard now “has a taste” for human flesh. It’s the fact the leopard successfully stalked and hunted the toddler and it resulted in a meal for the animal. To the leopard, that toddler was no different than a small animal. Like I said, predators learn what works and what doesn’t work. And in this leopards view now, hunting toddlers works. It’s as simple as that.
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:55 am to Darth_Vader
#1
#2
Doesn't sound like #1 happened
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The toddler was being looked after by a nanny
#2
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three-year-old son of a ranger has been snatched and eaten by a leopard
Doesn't sound like #1 happened
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:55 am to Darth_Vader
we don't even know if the leopard ate the toddler. Finding it in the brush leads me to believe it only killed the toddler b/c leopards usually take their kills into trees free from other predators
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:56 am to Displaced
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Why? It's a wild animal doing what wild animals do.
Blame the dumbass humans.
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Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:57 am to LSUcajun77
I know we do the "woah I was in Africa Last week" thing but...
We did go to the Audubon Zoo Saturday. And one of my kids retardedly asked if this jaguar would let her pet it?
Appropriate.
We did go to the Audubon Zoo Saturday. And one of my kids retardedly asked if this jaguar would let her pet it?
Appropriate.
This post was edited on 5/7/18 at 9:59 am
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:58 am to Darth_Vader
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It’s not that the leopard now “has a taste” for human flesh.
This is what I called BS on...
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removing it from the wild because once it has eaten human flesh, the temptations are high to eat another human being,
Posted on 5/7/18 at 10:00 am to Topwater Trout
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we don't even know if the leopard ate the toddler. Finding it in the brush leads me to believe it only killed the toddler b/c leopards usually take their kills into trees free from other predators
Did you read the story? It said the animal ate the toddler and they found the child’s skull the next morning. Notice they didn’t find the child’s body, only it’s skull.
This post was edited on 5/7/18 at 10:02 am
Posted on 5/7/18 at 10:02 am to Darth_Vader
If nanny would have had a gun..................
Posted on 5/7/18 at 10:03 am to Darth_Vader
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The toddler was being looked after by a nanny in unfenced staff quarters at a safari lodge in Queen Elizabeth National Park when the attack occurred
This is the exact plot to Jurrasic World.
Posted on 5/7/18 at 10:04 am to LSUgirl4
Why you keep on editing your posts?
Posted on 5/7/18 at 10:05 am to Walt OReilly
i laughed at a comment and decided it wasn’t the appropriate time to be laughing.
... twice.
... twice.
This post was edited on 5/7/18 at 10:06 am
Posted on 5/7/18 at 10:07 am to Topwater Trout
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I would like to see one shred of scientific evidence that wild animals acquire a taste for human flesh.
There was a single tiger in Nepal in the late 19th century that killed over 400 people.
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The Champawat Tiger was a female Bengal tiger responsible for an estimated 436 deaths in Nepal and the Kumaon area of India, mostly during the 19th century. Her attacks have been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest number of fatalities from a tiger. She was shot in 1907 by Jim Corbett.
The tiger began her attacks in a region of Nepal close to the Himalayas during the late 19th century, with people being ambushed by the dozen as they walked through the jungle. Hunters were sent in to kill the tiger, but she managed to evade them. Eventually, the Nepalese Army was called in. Despite failing to capture or kill the tiger, soldiers managed to force the tiger to abandon her territory and drive her across the border (river Sarda) into India, where she continued her killing activities in the Kumaon District. She eventually grew bolder, and began killing people in broad daylight and prowling around villages. Life across the region grew paralyzed, with men often refusing to leave their huts for work after hearing the tiger's roars from the forest
Posted on 5/7/18 at 10:09 am to Topwater Trout
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the temptations are high to eat another human being
While I can see the temptations getting high they probably just got the munchies for a burger or something.
Posted on 5/7/18 at 10:11 am to TH03
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The toddler was being looked after by a nanny in unfenced staff quarters
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Smart
Most fencing at safari lodges are electrified wire running maybe a few feet above the ground.
The lodge we stayed at had a leopard get into the compound and kill an Impala by the guest villas maybe two days before we arrived. The rangers had to scare it away and remove the carcass.
Posted on 5/7/18 at 10:13 am to Ben Hur
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I would like to see one shred of scientific evidence that wild animals acquire a taste for human flesh.
And there was also the famous case of a pair of lions that learned hunting humans was easy...
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The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of man-eating East African lions from the Tsavo region, which were responsible for the deaths of a number of construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway from March through December 1898. The significance of this pair of lions was their unusual behavior, such as the number of men killed and the manner of the attacks.
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As part of the construction of a railway linking Uganda with the Indian Ocean at Kilindini Harbour, in March 1898 the British started building a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya. The project was led by Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson. During the next nine months of construction, two maneless male Tsavo lions stalked the campsite, dragging Indian workers from their tents at night and devouring them.
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The construction crew returned and finished the bridge in February 1899. The exact number of people killed by the lions is unclear. Patterson gave several figures, overall claiming that there were 135 victims.[2][3]
LINK
Posted on 5/7/18 at 10:21 am to Darth_Vader
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And there was also the famous case of a pair of lions that learned hunting humans was easy...
There have been quiet a few big cats turned man eater:
Man-Eater Leopards
Man-Eater Big Cats
There was one that ignored the sheep to eat the shepherd boy, but I can't find it at the moment.
Posted on 5/7/18 at 10:22 am to Darth_Vader
I never been to Uganda guess it could not have been me
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