Is it wrong to kill wild animals that attack humans? Sometimes conservation demands it

Human-killing tigers are more likely to be culled in the wild than in zoos. Liz Miller / shutterstock

When an Amur tiger recently killed a man at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in northern England, the park announced that the tiger would not be killed.

Days later, a 71-year-old fisherman was killed by an alligator in Florida in the US. This time, the animal was captured and killed.