3 teenagers taunted a tiger in the S. Fransisco zoo about a year ago. The tiger jumped out of his 'thing' and killed one of the teenagers. Is the zoo liable?
In Rambam hilchos Nizkei Momon 2:19 says someone who taunts a dog and gets bitten the owner is pattur, for whoever does something out of the ordinary, and because of that the thing does something out of the ordinary back, pattur.
So the zoo would be pattur, no?
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My guess is that the zoo owner would be Patur. What if a 12 ½ year old child would torment the animal? Would the zoo owner would be Chayav because tigers are always Mudaim?
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