Craziest Zoo Animal Attacks

From tigers to bears to wolves here are 9 surprising and scary zoo animal attacks 9 Tiger Tiger In a China Animal Park in Beijing a horrific attack happened in one of their more open areas Specifically a woman named Ms Zhao was at Badaling Wildlife World animal park near Beijing in July 2016 She was driving through an area that just so happened to be a tiger enclosure This was something that was allowed to be clear 8 Not Monkeying Around There are many animals at zoos that you wouldn't expect to be dangerous to humans for one reason or another and one such one is the orangutan While gorillas baboons and other primates look dangerous the orangutan does not in certain ways 7 Octopus With A Grudge This story is more light hearted than you might expect but it is an attack on humans of a sort It also is one that proves you just can't predict animals This story takes place in an aquarium one that happened to house an octopus named Truman Now it's important to state that octopuses are very intelligent creatures They know how to do multiple things and their memories are actually really sharp 6 Tiger Strike At the Palms Springs Zoo in 2016 a zookeeper was killed by a rare tiger that was housed in their facility Specifically Stacey Konwiser was the victim she was the lead tiger keeper at the zoo and was killed by a 13-year-old male Malayan tiger one of four at the facility in the contained area where the animals are fed and sleep 5 Bear Vs Wolf When you go to zoos you sometimes see that enclosures have many different animals and most of the time it works out well but in a Dutch Zoo in 2018 it turned into a fatal attack on one of those animals Specifically this happened at Dierenrijk zoo in Mierlo 4 An Elephant Sometimes Forgets A very common occurrence in zoos is that of an instructor teaching an animal to do certain things on command This plays into various shows and can help teach people about the animals But in 2012 Lucy Melo an instructor at the famous Taronga Zoo in Sydney Australia found herself getting beaten up by a 2-year old elephant 3 Bear vs Woman In Glass Case This particular incident happened in a zoo where a woman was put into a glass box of sorts it was very strong glass for the record and was left to watch a bear The woman had a camera and was going to film the bear in regards to what it would do 2 Wolf Attack Wolves are often treated as evil in the world today because of their roles in mythology and fairy tales and then when you hear attacks that they commit at zoos like one time in 2012 it only enforces the fear 1 SeaWorld Dawn Brancheau is arguably the most famous animal attack death at a zoo for a simple reason She was killed by a killer whale that she had trained during a performance at SeaWorld It happened in 2010 when Dawn was doing a performance with the whale known as Tilikum and when she turned her back on him the whale grabbed her ponytail dragged her into the water and then started to swing her around

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