A jaguar attacked a woman at an Arizona zoo after she crossed a barrier to take a photo, according to the zoo, which cited witnesses' accounts of the attack
The attack happened Saturday evening at the Wildlife World Zoo in Litchfield Park, said Shawn Gilleland of the Rural Metro Fire Department.The guest crossed over the barrier to get a photo and was attacked by a female jaguar, the zoo tweeted, citing witness accounts. "The visitor sustained non-life threatening injuries to their arm from one of our female jaguars. At the request of the family, paramedics were called. At no time was the animal out of its enclosure ...
Read MoreWitness describes horrifying attackAdam Wilkerson said he was at the zoo with his family when someone came running around the corner yelling for help."Without thinking, I had no idea what I was going to see, I just ran over there," he said."I saw the other girl up against the fence with her arm caught in the jaguar's claws." Wilkerson said he was standing behind the woman, but didn't want to pull her off.
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