Harrowing final moments of man mauled to death at UK zoo: Come here tiger. Kill me.

The zoo-goer who was mauled to death by a Siberian tiger had taunted the big cat to come and “kill” him, according to harrowing eyewitness accounts of his final moments.Several people had noticed the man, whom cops are not identifying at his family’s request, as he walked around Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster, England on Saturday.He was “pacing around with his headphones in” and happily “dancing,” witnesses said — with one even catching audio of him asking her to take a photo of him with the Siberian tiger, Altai, behind him.“Excuse me, can you grab a shot of myself with the tiger?” he was heard asking Del Taylor in a clip viewed more than 11 million times on X.“One more, one more, one more!” he excitedly asked, as Taylor’s boyfriend admired the tiger lazing in the sunshine.“Thank you, lady,” he ended the conversation — the last he’s known to have had before climbing a 15-foot fence into the enclosure.“He was completely alone,” Taylor told the Sun of the tragic stranger whose phone she used to take his final photos.As the man started climbing the fence, a woman close to him tried to stop him but “wasn’t strong enough” to hold him back, Anthony Hunt told the Telegraph.“He overpowered her and jumped off,” Hunt said.“She seemed really frightened,” he said of the woman who tried to save him.“We spoke to her after and she was like, ‘I tried to pull him back’ but I guess she didn’t want to risk her own life as well.”The man then got down on his knees in front of the tiger — and started taunting it, Hunt told the Times of London.“It looked like a performance.

He got down where everyone could see him in the main viewing area.He was on all fours, praying and bowing down to the tiger.

It was like he was waiting for the tiger,” the horrified onlooker recalled.“He had his arms wide open like he was saying: ‘Come here tiger.Kill me’.

“Then the tiger came and started to attack him.He started t...