yep - cowards. But if I thought for one second that any of the animals could ever get at me, I never would have gone to a zoo! Would you? First of all, the tiger area should have been better secure. Second, there should have been zoo employees, security, etc to see what the heck is going on at all times to have stopped this the moment it started.
Whether they teased it or not isn’t even relevant.
The compound should have been designed so that a tiger could never get out.
The compound should have been designed so that a person could never get in.