A tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest living cat in Asia, and the Siberian subspecies is the largest living cat on Earth. They are imposing beasts, measuring up to nine feet in length, weighing nearly 600 pounds, and have a bite force of over 1,000 pounds per square inch (psi), not to mention eighteen sharp retractable claws that may be up to four inches long. This isn’t an animal you’d want to meet in a dark alley, or anywhere else for that matter, unless there was a stout barrier between you and said tiger.
So, when I mention that a New Jersey woman climbed over just such a barrier and stuck her hand into a tiger enclosure, you have a fairly good idea of just what a dumb idea that is.
A New Jersey woman has been charged after shocking video showed her entering a tiger closure at a south Jersey zoo last week, police said.
The Bridgeton Police Department said 24-year-old Zyair J….
