I could totally expect a tiger to experience the pain of loss if their young were killed. After all, giving birth to and raising their young is a huge investmen

I could totally expect a tiger to experience the pain of loss if their young were killed. After all, giving birth to and raising their young is a huge investment for them too. Also, I have seen grown tigers play with humans and shown immense affection, so it seems to me they are capable of more social bonding than they generally express in the wild. Given that lions and tigers are closely related, and that lions are super social, I could imagine tigers have some latent social "DNA" which is just not currently expressed very much in the wild.