Arizona: Woman in Pursuit of Selfie Attacked by Jaguar
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A Saturday night tweet from Arizona’s Wildlife World Zoo in the wake of an incident involving a guest and a jaguar, is both understanding and cautionary:
“Please understand why barriers are put in place. Sending prayers to the family tonight.”
The Litchfield Park zoo says that same evening a female guest crossed a barrier in an attempt to take a photo of a jaguar and was attacked, sustaining non-life threatening injuries on one arm. The animal was in its enclosure the entire time, the zoo pointed out.
Local officials clarified it wasn’t just a photo, but a selfie: The woman was “attempting to take a selfie near the fence of the jaguar enclosure when the cat reached out and attacked her arm.”
A witness tells KPHO that after hearing the 30-something woman’s screams, he and his family ran over and distracted the animal with a water bottle. “And the jaguar goes to let go of the girl to take the water bottle, and the claw just catches this girl’s sweater.
So at that point I see that it’s no longer attached to the girl’s actual arm, only on her sweater, so I grab the girl on her torso and I pull her back.”
Paramedics were called, and the moral of the story is: respect these animals and their territory. Don’t be stupid.
Edited from Newser.
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But it was a pretty kitty cat, she says. and an event she will remember for the rest of her life. Idiots will be idiots.
Yep! They are everywhere, and most of them are Trump supporters.