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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Trying to read the tea leaves as to a tiger's reasoning seems absurd in the end. Look, it's an animal. It has instincts we will never understand. It deserves neither blame nor sympathy for its action. Something clicked inside it, that's all. Ever been petting a cat and had it suddenly become alert, claw you once, and take off running around playing cat games? These creatures are simply not very domestic. Sure, we can share an empathy with them, but we can no more understand the inner workings of their brains than they can understand ours -- at least where a single specific act is concerned.
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AMEN! It's a wild animal and doesn't operate on cognitive thinking. It's genetically designed to be a fierce carnivore and aggressive hunter. It's designed to take on very large and strong animals as well as defend itself from others of it's kind. Tigers are not social animals and don't possess a pack mentality. They ferociously attack ANYTHING in their territory that they feel threatened by and think they can overcome. When raising tigers from cubs, trainers try to artificially preserve the more docile cub mentality. I think it's only partially effective.
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