Difference between the two was, Harambe could still be stopped.
Like, the kid was still alive and Harambe was handling him in a way that could have changed this fact in the minutes to come.
The guy who got killed by the tiger was dead long before someone could have intervened.
Killing the tiger now would just be punishment, which wouldn't make a whole lot of sense.
And no, before you start babbling about the tiger having tasted blood and now being dangerous or anything, that's not how it works. Human blood isn't somehow addictive. Big cats usually become man-eaters when they're weakened or hurt in some way and discover that humans are easier to hunt than their natural prey. A big cat in a zoo that literally gets free meals isn't gonna develop a craving for human flesh just because it killed one once.
Yup. And the zoo made a statement confirming that they have no plans to euthanize the tiger over what happened. The enclosure was already safe enough to protect the public... and it's not the tiger that crossed the boundary.
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u/Darthplagueis13 2h ago
Difference between the two was, Harambe could still be stopped.
Like, the kid was still alive and Harambe was handling him in a way that could have changed this fact in the minutes to come.
The guy who got killed by the tiger was dead long before someone could have intervened.
Killing the tiger now would just be punishment, which wouldn't make a whole lot of sense.
And no, before you start babbling about the tiger having tasted blood and now being dangerous or anything, that's not how it works. Human blood isn't somehow addictive. Big cats usually become man-eaters when they're weakened or hurt in some way and discover that humans are easier to hunt than their natural prey. A big cat in a zoo that literally gets free meals isn't gonna develop a craving for human flesh just because it killed one once.