This morning I was sent a very disturbing video but it fit in with a recent discussion that I had with a producer about animal attacks. In the quest to “be one” or “connect with” an animal, people tend to do really stupid things. A few get close to captive animals, while others climb into [...]

The report from the San Francisco Chronicle makes me wonder how often the zoo actually has emergency drills. Another question crossed my desk yesterday, what were three guys of that age doing at the zoo on Christmas day? Isn’t that unusual–wouldn’t they be hanging out with their buddies or people of their own age group? [...]

Okay, in my library I found in Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia Volume 12, Page 349 (copyright 1972) that tigers have been found to jump down up to 10 meters (32.8 feet) with the average of 5-6 meter jumps (16-19.7 feet). In Walker’s Mammals of the World, Fifth Edition, the citation in Volume II on page [...]