letter to the editors of the sf chronicle

I was deeply saddened to learn of the tragic death of Mr. Sousa at the zoo. My heart goes out to his family and friends and i wish for a timely healing process.

While it is typical to try and ascribe blame in a situation such as this, your readership would benefit from less sensationalistic editorials (published thursday) which fuel our surprise at such an event. It wasn't a rampage as you posit. The dictionary defines rampage as "(especially a group of people) rushing around in a violent uncontrollable manner." The result of what happened was a natural expression of a tiger--calculated and controlled to achieve an end regardless of what we humans think. Placing wild animals in cages or humans in prisons for that manner will in effect undermine their respective normal expressions in the world.