[repinwi]

"How do you even know if a tiger is "taunted"?

Because one of the Dilly boys said so.

"Maybe the tiger just wanted something a little different to eat that day and thought the prey was close enough to snatch."

Tiger was fed 3 hours before the incident and had undigested food in her stomach.

[microgood]

Because one of the Dilly boys said so.

I guess my point is how anyone can really tell how the lion is interpreting what he is seeing. The Dilly boys said they were taunting them, but do we really know what the tiger was thinking?

A tiger is a killing machine. That is its purpose in life. When they look from their cage to the people walking by, they see breakfast, lunch, dinner. That is what they are.

We can never really know what the tiger was thinking. Was it fear or aggression? We will never know. We can try to impose human thinking on them, but they are wired completely different.

[MizSterious]

Also, according to the articles I’ve read so far, the tiger didn’t eat anyone. She mauled them—fatally in one case. This wasn’t about hunger.