May 29, 2007
The stuff nightmares are made of
The Daily Mail ran a story on a swimming white Bengal tiger, a beast nothing like it's domesticated cousins, who have a well-known aversion to water. The photos -- spectacular, don't you think? -- make the predator seem even more fearsome than usual; check out the look on its face. It makes a Great White Shark look like a koi by comparison.
He looks a little peeved that there's glass between him and the observing humans. Odin, who lives near San Francisco, is more than 10 feet long, but he looks bigger to me. E-freakin'-normous.
The article says the trainer first enticed the tiger into the water by tossing hunks of meat into the pool. You realize we're just bigger steaks to this guy, right? Dinner on the hoof.
You get a sense of just how big the animal is when it towers over its trainer. And yet it doesn't seem as threatening on dry land.
What a magnificent animal. Especially when viewed from the safety of my couch.
Posted by Mike Lief at May 29, 2007 10:02 PM
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