Comments on: What Monkey-Like Animal?

By: Weezy

Weezy — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:08:12 +0000

A TIGER IN AFRICA?!

Sorry, can’t resist the opportunity to post a movie quote.

By: Quakerhead

Quakerhead — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:14:35 +0000

A note to flame821: While 80% of New Orleans was underwater after hurricane Katrina, Audubon Zoo did not flood. There was considerable wind damage (mostly downed trees) but there were no animal escapes and loss of animal life was minimal (2 otters and a raccoon). Much of the zoo’s survival was attributed to 12 brave volunteer zookeepers who hunkered down in the reptile house during the storm and cared for the animals afterwards. However, here in the New Orleans area, as in many parts of the U.S., the keeping of large, exotic pets is still an occasional problem. Many readers may recall the discovery of a serval running loose in uptown New Orleans several months ago and pythons turn up from time to time as well. One urban zoo that was affected by a hurricane was the Miami Metro Zoo during hurricane Andrew. I remember seeing troops of monkeys strolling through Miami residential areas on the evening news.

By: kgehrman

kgehrman — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:47:10 +0000

You make a good point flame821
For tigers alone, a report last year called:
“Paper Tigers?: The Role of the U.S. Captive Tiger Population in the Trade in Tiger Parts”
estimated that there are app. 5000 tigers in captivity in the United States (probably more).
There are only 4000 tigers in the wild.

People constantly lose there dogs and cats, tell me why the same thing could not happen with a tiger.
Many of these captive tigers are illegal “pets” that were bought as cute little babies that 5 years later
are not as cuddly.

While people don’t hesitate taping a poster to a sign post with a photo of dear missing Fluffy the beloved kitty. They might just decide not to do the same for an escaped Bengal tiger or Mexican jaguar, especially if a 4 year old girl down the street had also suddenly gone missing.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:06:47 +0000

“The one thing I learned in all my years of working, when a person calls and says I saw this and I saw that, never say never,” Beyer says.

Jolly good.

Good attitude. Great post as always, Loren.

By: flame821

flame821 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:00:44 +0000

A tiger!!! Yikes!!!

Just off the top of my head; After the flooding of NOLA (and its zoos) and the downward economy (and private animal collections).

Do you think we’ll be seeing an increase in out of place animals? I was reading some links (in a previous posting) about the amount of OOP animals in Florida alone, and as our winters become milder I have to wonder how far North some of these misplaced critters will wander.