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White Tiger Dies Suddenly at Night Safari
by CityNews

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CityNews – 27th November, Dr Sarawut Srisakul, Director of the Night Safari along with veterinarians from the Night Safari as well as Chiang Mai University, held a press conference to announce the deaths of Justin, the White tiger.

Yet another animal has died in the notorious Chiang Mai Night Safari, an organisation known for news of animal deaths, irresponsible care for animals, commercialisations of animals over care and a string of negative press, since its opening in 2006.

Justin, the white tiger which had been brought to the Night Safari at age 8 months old in 2001, through an exchange with a private organisation, had signs of fatigue and refused to eat on the morning of 17th November, by evening he was declared dead.

Full story: http://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/news/white-tiger-dies-suddenly-at-night-safari/

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-- Chiang City News 2015-11-27

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Hmmm... Interesting way of presenting ordinary news slanted to meet personal bias.

On average tigers will live for 10 to 15 years out in the wild and 16 to 20 years in captivity. ON AVERAGE...

This tiger lived about 16 years, yet the news story makes it out to seem as if this is something that should have been prevented.

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Got to agree, terrible journalism. I bet the 'journalist' is female.

Just looked at the night safari's website. A day ticket for Thais is 200 baht and for foreigners it's 800 baht. Apart from pissing on the floor of their toilets, I can't see any other reason for visiting this place.

Edited by Loaded
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Got to agree, terrible journalism. I bet the 'journalist' is female.

There's at least a 50% chance you're right.

What does gender have to do with being a terrible journalist? I suspect that both male and female "journalists" are incapable of using the google function to input the words "average lifespan of a tiger" to learn what others who have posted on this thread have done.

Rather, I suspect latent, or rather blatant misogyny on your part, Mr. Loaded.

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A sad day for the staff at the night safari - Justin must have been a big part of the family after living there since a cub for 16 odd years. The article has an undertone of negativity towards the park - probably justified given their ongoing record - but - it doesn't seem quite fair as the cause of death may have been quite natural? I'm not a fan of zoos though, especially in Asia.

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Got to agree, terrible journalism. I bet the 'journalist' is female.

There's at least a 50% chance you're right.

What does gender have to do with being a terrible journalist? I suspect that both male and female "journalists" are incapable of using the google function to input the words "average lifespan of a tiger" to learn what others who have posted on this thread have done.

Rather, I suspect latent, or rather blatant misogyny on your part, Mr. Loaded.

The article is emotional and personal I bet the journalist is female.

I suspect a lot of things about you as well Nancy. You can judge a person by the company they keep. (odds on you complain to a mod to have this post deleted)

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A sad day for the staff at the night safari - Justin must have been a big part of the family after living there since a cub for 16 odd years. The article has an undertone of negativity towards the park - probably justified given their ongoing record - but - it doesn't seem quite fair as the cause of death may have been quite natural? I'm not a fan of zoos though, especially in Asia.

Undertone? Understatement!

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Must admit from my reading of just the headline i thought the tiger probably died of either missing testicles or spleen. But i was wrong ( once again - from making stupid assumptions before i knew all the facts ) . So long Justin , Hope you enjoy your new home in Tiger Heaven . I never knew you in person but i am sure you were a decent cat.

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its certainly very odd a 14year old tiger suddenly dies at a place that has a reputation for animal deaths, in one day it shows fatigue listlessness loss of appetite and dies on the same day they put it down to kidney failure?

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its certainly very odd a 4year old tiger suddenly dies at a place that has a reputation for animal deaths, in one day it shows fatigue listlessness loss of appetite and dies on the same day they put it down to kidney failure?

I think he was 16 years old

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its certainly very odd a 4year old tiger suddenly dies at a place that has a reputation for animal deaths, in one day it shows fatigue listlessness loss of appetite and dies on the same day they put it down to kidney failure?

There's a tiny problem with you assertion.

From the OP:

Justin, the white tiger which had been brought to the Night Safari at age 8 months old in 2001

I see you've now added 10 years to your post.

Edited by Loaded
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I'm certainly not a veterinarian, but as someone who has owned several domestic cats that have basically died of "old age", i.e. ages 18 - 24 years, the common way that they go is to develop chronic renal failure where they loose their appetite, sense of smell and eventually die of kidney failure. With several we were able to prolong their life with subcutaneous saline infusions that really perked up their appetites and helped to manage chronic renal failure, quite common with older cats. http://www.felinecrf.com/managb.htm

There is nothing overly suspicious about the death of this white tiger. We don't know if the cat had been monitored for kidney disease, but if it had been eating normally prior to death, then there probably wasn't a cause for concern.

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I remember a couple years ago the trainers allowed me and my girlfriend to go into the tiger training cage and take pictures with justin and the gang - inside the cage while they were unchained and on stands. The tigers were not too happy about us coming in and got aggressive, but were being held in position by the trainers. The trainers charged us only 100 baht per person. This only happens in Thailand.

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its certainly very odd a 4year old tiger suddenly dies at a place that has a reputation for animal deaths, in one day it shows fatigue listlessness loss of appetite and dies on the same day they put it down to kidney failure?

There's a tiny problem with you assertion.

From the OP:

Justin, the white tiger which had been brought to the Night Safari at age 8 months old in 2001

I see you've now added 10 years to your post.

Please note everyone ....there seems to be a typo re the year. The original article states the tiger arrived in 2011 ....not 2001, so he was rather young.

.....not 2001

Edited by amykat
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I remember a couple years ago the trainers allowed me and my girlfriend to go into the tiger training cage and take pictures with justin and the gang - inside the cage while they were unchained and on stands. The tigers were not too happy about us coming in and got aggressive, but were being held in position by the trainers. The trainers charged us only 100 baht per person. This only happens in Thailand.

Should have eaten you!:lol:

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I remember a couple years ago the trainers allowed me and my girlfriend to go into the tiger training cage and take pictures with justin and the gang - inside the cage while they were unchained and on stands. The tigers were not too happy about us coming in and got aggressive, but were being held in position by the trainers. The trainers charged us only 100 baht per person. This only happens in Thailand.

Should have eaten you!laugh.png

When I lived in Nan province 28 years ago, I was staying deep in the mountains with hill tribes. A tiger ate one of their cows. We got lucky and got to eat the left over that the tiger left behind :)

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