Another Siberian tiger, Sayan, in the big cat enclosure at Zurich Zoo after the zookeeper’s shocking death
Keepers rushed to the 55-year-old woman's aid at the Zurich Zoo after people watched in horror as the tiger attacked her inside the big cat enclosure.
They managed to lure the Siberian tiger, named Irina, away from the female keeper but it was too late to save her, and she died from her injuries.
'Sadly all the help came too late. The woman died at the scene,' Zurich police spokeswoman Judith Hoedl said.
Hoedl said an investigation has been launched into why the keeper was in the enclosure at the same time as the tiger.
Irina was born in 2015 at a zoo in the Danish city of Odense and transferred to Zurich a year ago, according to Zurich's zoo director Severin Dressen.
The tiger behaved normally, he said. 'Our full sympathy is with the relatives of the victim,' Dressen said, adding that the keeper had been a long-term member of the zoo staff.
Visitors and colleagues who witnessed the attack are now receiving psychological counselling, he said. The zoo, which only recently reopened following the coronavirus lockdown, will remain closed today.
Reader Comments
Oh, that's already been made, not released, with the roles reversed though.
RC
P.s., I'm glad they're not going to kill the tiger.
Gotta wonder if it was Suicide by Tiger. There have got to be better ways to go. I'd rather get bitten by a great white - it would be quicker.
Joke solicitation guys: What did they use for the lure? Or anything else funny y'all think of.
RC
Treat people like caged animals and they dream of doing the same thing.
Free at [Link] Like all his stuff, it's really eye opening.
(I've noted this earlier elsewhere. It just was still easy access for me now.)
RC
I don't wish to spoil the story, and it is a dark humor story, which in a simplistic sense could be considered as a pro-vegetarian (or whatever) story, though it's really not that.
It was in my easy accessed stuff as I was signing off, saw 'life force' and reposted whatever.
Certainly it's no Heart of Darkness. (Conrad is one of my favorite writers.)
R.C.
This idea crops up in my meditations from time to time.
Would an alien race regard people as inferior beings of inferior intellect, whose own rules can be made to be applied against us?
THAT IS WHAT THAT STORY IS ABOUT and more.
R.C.
Food for thought...!
R.C.