I pit NBC's coverage of the Kentucky Derby in the wake of Eight Belles' death

[Bricker]

@dropzone

A few years back I was at a zoo and a tiger, thinking I looked like a tasty morsel, jumped at his enclosure’s bars to get at me. That took away any thoughts that people were alone at the top of the food chain: had he gotten through he’d’ve eaten me while, had I an AK-47, we’d’ve been better matched. (thinking) No, he was too close and had the drop on me. I’d be toast.

No. No one would claim that a moose is higher on the food chain than a wolf, even though history is undoubtedly replete with instances of moose stomping wolves to death. The question is not how you, personally, would fare vs. a tiger. The question is how homo sapiens sapiens fare against panthera tigris in the world at large.