Man has jumped into Tiger enclosure

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

At Yorkshire wildlife park.Anyone seen the video? I live local to it and the video of the man wagging his finger at it telling it no like a toddler is shocking.Hes lucky he wasnt killed.

Ahh thank you!
I've never seen one reinstated before.

Has happened a few times!

All that happened - probably - is that it was reported by well over a dozen posters, and it got automatically hidden. MN reviewed it, and decided it was OK to put it back up, but they will be keeping an eye on it, as some people have said some nasty things about the man.

I read mixed reports initially but I'm now also largely seeing that he was there alone.

I don't understand why people visit zoos in the first place. Animals kept in a fraction of the space they would have in the wild in the wrong climate, not able to interact with any other species or to cover the distances they would in the wild. They are prisons for animals. They are there to be gawked at by the ignorant under the guise of education and conservation. When an animal makes a break for freedom, it is often exterminated. I hope they will go the way of animal circuses and we will look back with shame that they were ever deemed acceptable.

Well said.

It's a wildlife park, not a zoo. Tigers would probably be extinct without conservation efforts from places such as YWP.

I'm not a big zoo-goer myself, but I don't think they're all as bad as some people make them out to be. They serve a purpose if they're run properly.

@OpenScroller The Yorkshire Wildlife Park is not a zoo, the Amur tiger area is 8,000 square meters, the staff could not reasonably be expected to be at the scene in the crucial first couple of minutes of the man getting into the tiger area.
In addition, the viewing area is a raised platform with fencing at least six metres in height and angled at the top to make climbing it extremely difficult and dangerous. Whilst the deceased man appears to have been extremely mentally vulnerable, this doesn't mean he was physically compromised as tragically he proved. Wildlife Parks and Zoos in the UK are subject to stringent safety legislation overseen by government safety experts. As you're not one of those - and clearly have never even visited the Yorkshire Wildlife Park - your "dumb" comments say considerably more about you than anyonelse.

And no, ofcourse the tiger wasn't shot for behaving as tigers do. We're not gun- obsessed and trigger happy in this country.

Yep. Agreed.

I think we might be talking about slightly different things. I'm talking about a widespread issue with warehousing of LD/autistic people whose care isn't managed in the community but who are detained for extended periods in unsuitable settings.

The tiger hasn’t been killed and the man has died

Aren’t people even bothering to read the thread before commenting? What’s the point of even posting?

I think the knee jerk reactions from these posters are because they don't go to modern zoos and wildlife parks and they have a mental images of what zoos were like 50 years ago.

We have come a long way since then.

In an ideal world we wouldn't need to rescue lions and polar bears from horrible living conditions, we wouldn't need breeding programmes to protect endangered species and we wouldn't need to protect these animals from loss of habitat and poachers.

Just watched Look North. People have been laying flowers at the park's entrance.

Animals do escape Zoos and wildlife parks. Capybara like to make a run for it. There is on the loose at the moment. A bear got out in Japan and chased people.

Enclosures are designed to keep the animals in. That is their purpose. Keeping humans out would mean shutting them in a box. It is absolutely not their responsibility to stop people from getting in, whether it’s because they’re high, saw something on internet and thought would amaze everyone(my inclination!), additional needs or whatever else. Presumably one of above. I imagine it will be in news when investigation is clear. They’ll need to look at his phone, test for drug levels etc.

It is not YWPs fault at all.

Why should they be in secure accommodation if the person is not a risk. People can only be in secure accommodation if assessed as a serious risk to themselves or others and this decision needs to be regularly reviewed.

Jeez, I only managed to read a handful of pages of the thread.
Some of the comments are disgusting.
Even at the beginning, without any other facts, posters have decided he's an idiot or doing it for clicks or was selfish or on drugs.
Then others are almost glad he died, because "what did he expect?"
Others saying the tiger was dead; others saying the man and friends were "winding up" the tiger.

What the hell is wrong with people, that you can't work out that a) nobody of sane mind is going to jump into a tiger enclosure, b) he said/she said is not at all helpful to anyone, c) regardless of any evidence, a human has died in a horrific way, and they obviously have friends and family who now need to try to come to terms with all of this, while also seeing people making jokes and laughing about their loved one being killed online.

Google Putin's involvement in Wildlife initiatives and you'll find you are quite wrong.
@daisydaisy11 our local zoos are Knowsley Safari park and Chester zoo. They've developed treatments and vaccines for lots of diseases that will save lives, in the wild. Their conservation work has made a difference. You won't agree but your word, isn't law.
Yesterday evening, quite quickly, it was announced the man had died and the tiger wouldn't be euthanised. A bit of googling would have stopped the speculation and some dreadful comments.

Google Putin's involvement in Wildlife initiatives and you'll find you are quite wrong.

I'm glad to hear it.

Whenever there is a big news story like this, what do people get out of spreading or repeating misinformation?

Despite it being headline news for 24 hours even today people are saying stuff that is quite clearly not true.

Such an ignorant post. Yet again, IT IS NOT A ZOO

What would you propose happens to all the animals currently in zoos? Released into the wild where they wouldn’t last more than a few days?

I said no risk of climbing in, not no risks at all to an individual.