It was her entire family, if you bothered to read the article, and they left over an hour before things got really rough. Why are you so supportive of animal abusers?
Only she is interviewed, by either the Chronicle or the police. Neither you nor I know anything more of what happened later, so your ad hominem can be allowed to fly into the ether. The zoo's job is to keep the tiger in the zoo, and that's the basic fact here.
I am constantly amazed at how many here seem to be okay with animal abuse. Disgusting.