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"A couple of dead cows and the animals would have been eating until the zoo people got there."

???? As I've said I don't claim to know anything about the situation but what is presented in this article. However, I am astonished at your complacent attitude and smug ridicule of LEOs dealing with such a crisis.

So you actually believe that 35 tigers and lions could be counted upon to stay put placidly dining on "a couple of dead cows" without roaming the countryside in search of more/other foods???

AND that local LEOs were supposed to know and judge within minutes that it was ok to let all these big cats roam loose because you are so sure that there was no danger??

I'd say the officers on the scene recognized that the public had to be protected, that there was no way to precisely and instantly gauge the risks, but that tigers and lions can hunt over many miles in a short time in search of a meal. They can kill anything that moves and would not all be content to dine together on a "couple of cows" until they could be rounded up.

The first report was they killed about twenty of the anmals upon arrival, so not two many left. The rest they hunded down and killed. But that is just what I read, but I doubt if the dead ones wanted to eat.