Anyone else find this disturbing?

I was reading this article today on MSNBC.com.  The basics are that a drunken man jumped into the panda pen, waking and and scaring the panda, which bit in him the leg.  The man then KICKED AND BIT THE PANDA BACK before he was rescued or got out of the pen or whatever.   But the last sentence of this article reads:

 “We’re not considering punishing him now,” Ye said in a telephone interview. “He’s suffered quite a bit of shock.”

And they are talking about the PANDA!  Would there really even be a considerion of punishing the panda now or EVER because a drunk scared the crap out of him and the animal reacted??  HELLO??  Why is it that when a wild animal has the audacity to *gasp* act like a wild animal that we, as humans, feel the need to retaliate and often the punishment is to kill them?  We are ones trying to make them fit into our little box!  Animals in the circus, in the zoo, whatever and if something "goes wrong" and a person gets killed, the animal is then destroyed. 

Okay, I'm off to find try to find an email address for this zoo.  I hope someone in Bejing can read English so they can translate to Ye just how ticked off I am.