I'm really trying to feel for the guy here.... (you know, here it comes)but... The guy fucked with dangerous animals for a living. I'd like to say this comes as a shock to me, but it's about as shocking as the sun rising in the east. His show was 98% Jerry Springer type entertainment* with animals and 2% educational with said animals. It is(was) a show about a guy doing stupid shit with wild animals, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Kind of like Roy Horn/Montecore the tiger incident. When you constanly fuck with wild animals bad shit usually follows.

P.S. I hope he had money for his family to live on after his death. Unlike the shotgun smoker John Dough.
* I'm not say Jerry is bad, I'm just saying that's what it was.