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MowCowWhoHow III

(2,103 posts)
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 05:31 PM Jun 2016

Jaguar used in Olympic torch event killed in Brazil

Source: AFP

Brasília (AFP) - A jaguar trotted out for the Olympic torch's passage through Brazil's Amazon was killed shortly afterward when it escaped its handlers and threatened a vet, the Brazilian military said Tuesday.

The feline -- whose species is the symbol of the Amazon -- was shot dead in the northern city of Manaus on Monday soon after it was photographed with the torch passing by. An attempt to use tranquilizer darts on it failed.

"It escaped and ran off as it was being moved from one area to another in the zoo," said Colonel Luiz Gustavo Evelyn, whose unit is deployed in the region.

He explained that, once located, the jaguar was hit by four tranquilizer darts. But they did not slow it down and it turned on a veterinarian, forcing the soldiers to use bullets. "To protect the handler, it was sacrificed," Evelyn said.

Read more: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/jaguar-used-olympic-torch-event-killed-brazil-203219123--oly.html





Not a great omen
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red dog 1

(27,648 posts)
8. If the zookeepers had been more careful, this wouldn't have happened.
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 07:19 PM
Jun 2016

Moving any big cat from one part of a zoo to another must be done with great care; and obviously these zookeepers didn't plan this move very well.

(I have a hunch that there will be more "mistakes" made during these Olympics)

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
10. Between the overpriced Athens/London games and Sochi and Rio, the Olympics are turning into a
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 08:41 PM
Jun 2016

big mess. Nice way to start the games.


The ancient Olympics were ended due to corruption, the modern one's should follow the same fate.

Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
11. Time to discover new, better ways to treat animals, and protect the endangered ones
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 08:48 PM
Jun 2016

if that's O.K., for chrissakes.

Anyone who takes the time to study these beings, will discover they are far more intelligent and complex than people have recognized.

Time to stop using up everything, just because you can. There is a terrible price being paid.

What a beautiful animal he was. What a nasty shame he was sacrificed, as the article says.

 

Hoppy

(3,595 posts)
12. Olympics: Corruption, Drugs. Bought judges (Canada figure skating),
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 11:31 PM
Jun 2016

Cities nearing bankruptcy to build useless stadiums and then watch them decay.

Fuck the Olympics.

GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)
13. The Olympics embody so much of what is wrong in the world today
Wed Jun 22, 2016, 07:53 AM
Jun 2016

Corruption, militarism / nationalism, sexism, elitism, and corporate rule.

This beautiful animal paid with its life to help prop up the fraud which is the IOOC.

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
16. Don't think for a moment that the Russian team
Wed Jun 22, 2016, 11:06 PM
Jun 2016

are the only ones using performance enhancing drugs. They are not. Most likely are.

Most nations want the blind nationalistic pride of that gold medals bring.

Grins

(7,135 posts)
14. I'm so done with the Olympics....
Wed Jun 22, 2016, 11:04 AM
Jun 2016

Nothing but frauds and disasters and marketing opportunities. So expensive by design even financially stable countries are backing away from them.

And the World Cup is absolutely the WORSE! Corruption on a global scale with bribes galore. The next Cup is in Russia? Russia? Didn't they fuck up the Sochi Olympics sufficiently enough for you? Give a nation whose track and field team was just barred from participating in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro the next Cup venue? Seriously? It wasn't individuals who took the illegal drugs; it was systemic to the Russian sports in the Olympic racket.

And the one after is Qatar? A nation of just over two million inhabitants with little to no history in top-flight soccer? Was it the racketeering, bribery, or money-laundering that made that happen? Or was it the always-popular human rights violations across Qatari society? The deaths of thousands of Nepalese workers they treat like slaves, perhaps?

Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
17. Brazilian jaguar's killing prompts calls for curbs on use of wild animals
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 12:43 AM
Jun 2016

Brazilian jaguar's killing prompts calls for curbs on use of wild animals

  • Animal welfare groups condemn use of jungle cat ‘like a trophy on display’

  • Jaguar was shot having escaped after an Olympic torch ceremony

    Jonathan Watts in Rio de Janeiro
    Wednesday 22 June 2016 13.41 EDT

    Animal welfare groups in Brazil have called for restrictions on the showcasing of once-wild animals following the lethal shooting of a jaguar that escaped its handlers after an Olympic torch ceremony in the Brazilian Amazon.

    The 17-year-old female – which had been given the name Juma – was killed at a zoo in Manaus attached to a military training centre where the Olympic event took place.

    The jungle cat – which is on the list of near-threatened species – was supposed to have been tranquillised, but freed itself from its shackles and approached a soldier who killed it with a single shot.

    The military – which operates the zoo where Juma was kept – said the killing was necessary to protect the team that was trying to recapture her.

    More:
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/22/jaguar-brazil-killing-animal-welfare-groups-olympic
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