I did not mean to suggest the persons accused of taunting the animals, if this is what they did, should be cut any slack. I feel quite a bit more sympathy for the dead tiger who was after all being what she was supposed to be, a wild animal, then I do the kids who got what they deserved.
In 1952, I was “talked to” by a zoo keeper cuz I was throwin’ peanuts at the monkeys on Cleveland Zoo’s Monkey Island!