Details on the lion that killed sanctuary worker

[hanselthecaretaker]

Cliff's notes (still long but all still relevant)-


Dianna Hanson, 24, an intern at the Cat Haven sanctuary east of Fresno, died almost instantly on Wednesday after the big cat, a male named Cous Cous weighing at least 400 pounds (181 kg), snapped her neck, according to an autopsy conducted on Thursday.

Hanson was cleaning the larger enclosure when the lion escaped from its holding pen, apparently by lifting a gate that slides open and shut vertically, Fresno County Coroner Dr. David Hadden told Reuters.

"The gate is kind of like a guillotine. It comes down and hits the base of the ground. If that gate wasn't all the way down, the lion could have put its paw under the gate and pushed it up, and the gate is designed so that it would stay up," he said. Hadden said the lion was being fed at the time, though he was not sure if Hanson was the one who left food for the animal.

"The lion did not touch its food. It was more interested in what she was doing, and it ran in and attacked her," he said. "she had been talking on her cell phone shortly before the attack and we found a damaged cell phone on the scene."


On Thursday, Hadden said autopsy results showed the intern, who was from the Seattle area, "died almost instantly from a fractured neck." He added that the autopsy also showed bite and claw marks on Hanson from "the lion playing with the body like a cat would play with a mouse."


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I wonder what the animal's side of the story is. Wouldn't that be something if we could know that? Considering it's a sanctuary, you'd think they'd be treated well there, right? So what set this king of the jungle off exactly?

My guess? Well, they say that a cat's (big cats?) brain is closer to a human's than a dogs, so researching what makes people do that type of thing might be a good place to start. Reminds me of the RAD kid video java posted a while back.

 

[redsamurai]

confining animals to cages is an abomination, an affront against nature. It sux cause the girl was likely very caring towards animals since she worked there, but it is what it is. Humans have been trying to tame these animals since written history. It don't work. Some people make it work for awhile, when you mark yourself as the provider of food these animals will come to an understanding that it's best they keep you around....but in the end their nature is their nature. Brain chemistry is brain chemistry, you can only subdue it for so long. These animals belong out on the plains, not in fucking Fresno California.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

confining animals to cages is an abomination, an affront against nature. It sux cause the girl was likely very caring towards animals since she worked there, but it is what it is. Humans have been trying to tame these animals since written history. It don't work. Some people make it work for awhile, when you mark yourself as the provider of food these animals will come to an understanding that it's best they keep you around....but in the end their nature is their nature. Brain chemistry is brain chemistry, you can only subdue it for so long. These animals belong out on the plains, not in fucking Fresno California.

Exactly right. This is probably the root of the problem. These animals when it comes down to it, are merely tolerating these cramped, synthetic environments. Every now and then one might just be thinking enough of this shit.

 

[PICK3]

If that ngr wood have jumped on me I'd wood have left that cage after tearing me a piece of lion booty off

 

[miplank]

you wouldn't douche it

 

[redsamurai]

If that ngr wood have jumped on me I'd wood have left that cage after tearing me a piece of lion booty off

that dude broke her neck with one punch, no joke. And that's an animal that's been in captivity it's whole life...it can't compare to those guys out on the plains who've been swiping at cape buffaloe for a living.

 

[PICK3]

that dude broke her neck with one punch, no joke. And that's an animal that's been in captivity it's whole life...it can't compare to those guys out on the plains who've been swiping at cape buffaloe for a living.

just means it wood have to serve bottom duty longer than its wild counterparts

 

[ismaele00]

confining animals to cages is an abomination, an affront against nature. It sux cause the girl was likely very caring towards animals since she worked there, but it is what it is. Humans have been trying to tame these animals since written history. It don't work. Some people make it work for awhile, when you mark yourself as the provider of food these animals will come to an understanding that it's best they keep you around....but in the end their nature is their nature. Brain chemistry is brain chemistry, you can only subdue it for so long. These animals belong out on the plains, not in fucking Fresno California.

I absolutly agree with the firs part of your post. Confine an animal in a jail to just get human fun it's, as you said pretty well, an abomination, a different thing is if they were born in captivity -because some illness- or if they were rescued...

IMO, circus, zoos, toros -we know very well about that here in Spain-... is just a perfect picture of what we humans are right now...

The moral development of a nation is measured by the treatment they give to their animals- Ghandi.

 

[redsamurai]

ideally I'd like to see 'zero" big cats born in captivity. Of course if they're born in captivity you can't toss em out into the wild, so that gives humans a nice excuse to continue captive breeding programs for the purpose of making money showing these animals. That being said, if we don't breed Tigers in captivity they won't soon be on the planet anymore cause powdered tiger cock makes asian men get stiffy's, allegedly. Just gotta throw your hands up.

 

[EnderJE]

Put them in the wild. So I can hunt them and eat them.