He jumped a security fence to take a selfie with a jaguar and suffered a savage attack – 03/11/2019

At a time when zoos tend to transform, the Wildlife World in Litchfield Park, Arizona, remains an ideal place to observe hundreds of wild animals. In fact, on its 87 hectares, it is the largest collection of African and American species. And it is common for children and adults to try to see how many species they encounter. However, a few hours ago, it happened a serious fact: a woman, excited by the idea of ​​taking a selfie with a jaguar, did not listen to the caregivers' recommendations and almost paid with her life.

It was barely a minute and a half, but it was enough for the calm of the place to be completely altered. All this happened when a woman, in her thirties, placed herself in front of the cage of the black jaguar, one of the stars of the city. There, he took pictures of the animal, but decided that was not enough. And what did he do? He jumped the fence that separated the audience from the cage get closer and, there, make a selfie.

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However, he did not realize that the feline would react in a brutal way, clawing his way through the bars and attacking him wildly. The screams of the woman alerted the guards, but that is Adam Wilkerson, who visited the place with his family, the first to realize what was going on. "It was crazy, a second of stupidity," the boy said. He added, "My mother, seeing what was happening, brought a bottle of water through the fence and started shaking it near the jaguar, which freed the girl.

In a video that Adam himself posted on social networks, the woman is seen on the ground, with deep arm wounds and his cries of pain are heard at the first medical consultation before being transferred to the hospital.

After the desperate event, the director of the zoo, Mickey Ollson, said that it was not the first time that a similar event was happening in the facility. "There is no way to stop people from jumping over the fences, but from time to time we put a lot of obstacles in the way, but if people do not know, they can get in trouble. what happened. "

After checking the woman's carelessness through the story of several witnesses, the Arizona judge investigates the possibility of applying a penalty to the victim. While the zoo, which has the USDA (US Department of Agriculture) license, they have informed that the jaguar will in no way be sacrificed.

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