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Aug. 4th, 2015 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tbutler
From a trip to the Cedar Cove big cat sanctuary this weekend. It was pretty hot/humid, so hopefully they weren't feeling too badly. :(
tbutlerFrom a trip to the Cedar Cove big cat sanctuary this weekend. It was pretty hot/humid, so hopefully they weren't feeling too badly. :(
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Date: 2015-08-05 02:38 am (UTC)Every time I've been to the Baton Rouge zoo, the resident tigers are flopped over on their sides asleep. Which would make sense, except they're also flopped over practically on top of each other, which you would think would make them even hotter!
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Date: 2015-08-05 02:52 am (UTC)When they weren't hiding out in their little sheds, anyway. ^^;;
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Date: 2015-08-05 03:33 am (UTC)Hey, that's less flopped over than ours, who weren't even (apparently) conscious. They were totally flopped over.
Mind you, I don't care how unconscious a tiger looks, I'm not getting in the enclosure with it...
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Date: 2015-08-05 03:43 am (UTC)...seriously, though, that's one thing they did emphasize - Don't go thinking they're tame. You can get along with them, sometimes surprisingly well, but they're still wild animals at heart. You don't mess around with them, and you don't get careless around them.
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Date: 2015-08-05 03:46 am (UTC)I grew up on folktales of tigers trying to eat little kids, so I'm particularly wary of tigers. And Korean folktale tigers try to lie and trick kids and pretend they're the kids' mothers. DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE TIGERS.