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Did you think Tatiana would receive some sort of proper Christian burial after her death on Christmas Day? (You know, the attacks that took the life of Carlos Sousa Jr. and injured Grey Goose connoisseurs Kulbir and Paul Dhaliwal?) Well, you thought wrong. According to today's Examiner, Tatiana will not, in fact, be honored with a gravestone complete old Sicilian widows throwing themselves onto her coffin. Instead, her "body parts will be probed and preserved while the rest, including the tiger’s coat, have already been incinerated." Basically, some of her body parts--such as sections of the liver and heart--are probably in Ziploc baggies inside an SF Zoo freezer somewhere. And her coat? Is ash.
Gross.
But before you alert Peta--do they even care what happens to animals after they die?--this is what happens to all zoo animals when they go to animal heaven. (There is so an animal heaven!) Zoo officials are hoping, though, that Tatiana's bones and skull will "end up back at the zoo, where curators can show visitors for an educational experience." That way the big cat we all love/hate lives on via a tool of education.
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i really wanted some of that sweet sweet tiger pelt.
I was back home in Oklahoma City for the holidays and was told by my friend's girlfriend that Skulls Unlimited that they would be getting the skeleton for cleaning and reconstruction. I have no verification other than the person who told me was an employee of the business.
If I recall correctly, for racehorses only a few body parts are kept for burial (the head, for one). The legendary Secretariat was one of a few racehorses buried whole, a special honor.
Brock, you have raised some interesting questions:
Was Tatiana entitled to a Christian burial? Do Sicilian widows go to tiger funerals? Where is tiger heaven? What would William Blake say?
What kind of educational experience is showing tiger bones to zoo visitors? Maybe, the curators could tell children: "See what happens to you when you bite someone!"
Is a zoo really a tool of education?
It's a tool of education, all right. You take your kid and point to the miserable looking animals and say "see? Caging animals is mean. Never go here."
Then you leave and go out for ice cream.
I wanted a front tooth to use in a voodoo spell to curse the two brothers who caused her death.