Yes Joseph, the tiger is still coming over to talk to you!

And he's smiling!

Oh, dear god no!

One of my fondest memories from the zoo was seeing an elephant casually reach into another elephants ass, pull out a trunkfull of dookie, and just pop it into his mouth like that is a thing you do. All to the screams of a group of little kids on a field trip.

For them, it is a thing they have to do -- from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprophagia:

"Young elephants, pandas, koalas, and hippos eat the feces of their mothers or other animals in the herd to obtain the bacteria required to properly digest vegetation found on the savanna and in the jungle. When they are born, their intestines do not contain these bacteria (they are completely sterile). Without them, they would be unable to obtain any nutritional value from plants."

That made me really happy, that the kid took it okay. I wish the dad had been less fear-modeling.

^ this.

Dad was probably raised by an over-protecting pancake batter mixer.

That dad is a whiny baby. Newsflash: this happens a million times every day in nature.

He was clearly trying his best not to laugh at his own dismay.

Not that clearly. It sounds like he's trying to teach his son that everything's either a fucking cartoon or a fucking tragedy.

The east coast is lousy with eastern gray squirrels, and they stay the hell away from everything (except for those in parks where idiots feed them all the time). They would never have let that happen. Maybe it's because the squirrel is from Cali, so it's, like, chill, man.

Maybe it has the "cats are our friends" brain parasite.

RAWRRR

CHOMP

NOM NOM NOM

He is young enough to instinctively understand such a primal incident. It was the "Look a tiger is coming to say hello to you" thing that had him confused.