Although I love cats and have four of the domestic kind, I am not what you would really call an animal rights activist who values animals more than people (although my husband is always accusing me of being one just because I love my cats). At the same time, I think it is a tragedy that this beautiful creature died as a result of the actions of these young men. Although the tiger had injured a zoo keeper once before, that wall had been the same height for as long as it had been at the zoo and it never offered to jump over it. The tiger was acting instinctively to an unprovoked attack, and, while it is also tragic that a young man is dead, the boys bear the primary responsibility for what happened to them and to the tiger.
the boys bear the primary responsibility for what happened to them and to the tigerResponsible for their friend's death. Death that occurred during the commission of a crime. The crime was probably not a felony, but there must be some legal recourse against these two to make them pay something for the death of a human being stemming from their actions.