Tuesday, March 6, 2007

George The Jaguar And His Mean Twin Osama

You might have heard of the sad events at the Denver Zoo in Colorado last week, where a zookeeper was killed by a jaguar at the zoo. But it was an article on Yahoo! News which caught my eye.

The article was titled 'Killer jaguar had mean twin named Osama', which I though was somewhat entertaining that someone would name a jaguar after Osama Bin Laden. Reading on I noticed that the killer jaguar in this case was called Jorge, or George in spanish, and was actually named after President George W Bush.

Here are some quotes about the jaguars from the article:

"...[Jorge] was well-behaved as a young cat but his twin was so mean that his handlers named him Osama..."
"A zoo employee shot and killed Jorge when he approached emergency workers..."
"Jorge — Spanish for George — had been named after President Bush"
"Osama was always the more dominant of the two. He was always rough with Jorge. That was the relationship we saw between them."
"Jorge wasn't bad, really... I don't know what could have happened. Perhaps because he was so well-behaved, the trainer thought she could trust him. But you never know with wild animals."
Can you see the similarities between these jaguars and the human world? Osama is mean-spirited, rough with George and dominant, whilst George is well-behaved, submissive, and the one the zookeeper seemed to trust. With these descriptions in mind, which would you expect to kill someone, George or Osama? And which one did actually kill someone?

Source:
Killer jaguar had mean twin named Osama - Yahoo! News

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