Wing Woo Gar
Senior Master
I’m a tiger and cougar guy. Not a fan of lions, jags or leopards with a few exceptions. Tigers tend to be honest as long as you keep facing them, they tell you how they feel about you. Lions ignore unless they already know you or you are limping. Jags are famous liars, they roll around and tell you they love you to get you closer. Leopards run the gamut, anything can happen at any time. Many captive big cats pick a person they like, some pick a gender . I ended up with an Asian leopard in my section who hated women, I also ended up with a tiger named Tibor because he liked me, but hated every other human. Many of the primate keepers are women because they tend to get better reactions from adult male primates. In the rescue rehab facility I worked at, keepers had a lot of open contact and the public was not usually allowed to enter the compound. We had quite a few animals there that had injured or killed people. Ad Seg. For cats was called “bad cat row” and it was simply enclosures inside of enclosures to insure that no one could get too close. Make no mistake about it, they can catch and kill you through the cage if you get too close. Chain link can stretch, and they know just how far they can reach.Oh yeah, that is a big animal, no doubt. The SF zoo also has bengals, and they look like house cats in comparison to the aimur. They also have a lion that weighs in around 550, which I believe is about 50-100 more than is typical. Big Kitty, those fellows!