Dramatic: a crocodile attacked a trainer in a zoo

Visitors to the zoo “Scales & Tails”, located in the town of West Valley City, Utah, United States they must have helped one of the crocodile sneakers What she was attacked by one of the animals during a presentation.

The dramatic moment was captured by Therese Wiseman, one of the visitors to the center, who then shared it on social media. The file shows the coach while explaining to some adults and children on the alligator, when he bites her hand and leads her towards the water. During the attack, the reptile begins to circle and keeps jaws tight as woman struggles to break free.

Visitors to the Utah Zoo jump to save the master stuck in the jaws of an alligator (Video: Sky News).

“We have problems here! Shouted one of the visitors, later identified as Donnie Wiseman, and immediately jumped into the water to climb onto the animal and help the woman. The man succeeded in immobilizing the crocodile, while the coach gave him instructions to allow him to escape from the pool.

For about a minute we can see Donnie holding the alligator while the woman’s hand remains inside the reptile’s jaw, until it pushes your body back and forth. Therefore the the trainer can free his arm from the animal’s mouth.

In the video you can also see another man identified as Christophe Todd, which helps the woman out of the enclosure. Immediately, the caregiver received medical help from Amy, one of the visitors who was a nurse, until she was rushed to hospital, where she had an operation.

For its part, Shane Richin, the owner of the company, detailed in an interview Monday that the woman opened the enclosure to feed the alligator as usual, but this time the reptile “become a little more aggressive”.

He also noted that the the establishment normally has a strict policy a second trainer is nearby when employees are working with the crocs, but the provision has not been enforced in recent years if the worker does not intend to enter the compound.

Thanks to a publication in their official accounts, the center reported that the coach, Lindsay Taurus, is “Good and recovering.” After having surgery, she is on antibiotics.

“Working with some of these animals comes with inherent risks which we as staff accept,” begins the post he made. “Utah scales and tails” from his Facebook account Monday morning.

“Yesterday arrived the kind of event that we hope will not happen again “, is expressed in the same post, in which he also appreciates the actions of Donnie and Todd, as good as Amy. They admit that “they could have stayed in the safe zone” and that they reacted all the same in time to help Lindsay, who thanks to that “is alive and of all its members”.

However, during a conversation with KSL News, Lindsay, the injured woman, said the the crocodile behaved aggressively during the day; however, since she had worked with him several times, she thought she could control him, but she couldn’t.

Yet he added that “What happened was an accident” and the reptile “is not a killing machine”, it is a animal that has had a bad reaction for a while.