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  • From a sharp-toothed zoo escapee to a killer mountain goat, we count ten of the

  • most devastating animal attacks around the world!

  • 10 – San Francisco Zoo Tiger Attack, • On Christmas Day 2007, Tatiana the tiger

  • escaped her grotto enclosure at San Francisco Zoo and fatally mauled a seventeen-year-old

  • boy. Carlos Eduardo Sousa Jr. had his jugular vein slashed by the ferocious animal. Although

  • never proven, many believe Carlos attracted the tiger’s ire by taunting it. Rookie mistake.

  • Two brothers also suffered severe bites and claw wounds and were lucky to have escaped

  • with their lives. • Tatiana was brought to the San Francisco

  • Zoo in 2005 and had previously showed signs of aggression when she clawed and bit a veteran

  • zookeeper. • The scene on Christmas was chaotic, with

  • police delayed in their arrival. Twenty minutes after her escape, Tatiana had to be shot by

  • a zoo team member. • This was the first visitor fatality caused

  • by an animal escape in the history of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

  • 9 – Charla Nash Chimp Attack, • In 2009, Charla Nash was brutally maimed

  • by her friend’s chimpanzee, Travis. The 200-pound primate ripped off Nash’s nose,

  • lips, eyelids, and hands, and was shot dead by a police officer in self-defence.

  • Travis famously appeared in television shows and commercials, including the Maury

  • Povich Show and ads for Coca-Cola. He had exhibited no past violent behaviours; however,

  • in 2003, he escaped his owner’s car at a busy intersection and chased a man who had

  • thrown something at their vehicle. That incident led to a new Connecticut law prohibiting people

  • from keeping primates heavier than fifty pounds as pets.

  • Since her attack, Charla Nash has had a full face transplant. Unfortunately, doctors

  • were forced to remove her eyes because of a disease transmitted by the chimp, and an

  • attempted hand transplant failed because Nash’s body rejected it.

  • The U.S. Military has reportedly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to assist

  • with Nash’s physical rehabilitation. They believe the research could serve disfigured

  • soldiers returning from war. 8 – Maddox Derkosh Wild Dogs Attack,

  • Maddox Derkosh was a two-year-old boy who, in 2012, met a tragic death when he fell

  • off a wooden rail into Pittsburgh Zoo’s African wild painted dogs enclosure.

  • The boy had poor vision, so his mother had lifted him up to give him a better view

  • of the dogs. Maddox lunged forward to get a better view and fell eleven feet, bouncing

  • off protective netting and into the pit, where eleven hungry dogs pounced on him.

  • The autopsy later confirmed the boy survived the fall, but died from the severe blood loss

  • caused by the attack. 7 – Azaria Chamberlain Disappearance,

  • Azaria Chamberlain was a nine-week-old infant who was tragically eaten by a dingo

  • in Australia’s Northern Territory in 1980. • Azaria’s mother, Lindy Chamberlain,

  • immediately contacted police to report that a dingo had stolen her baby. Lindy was trialled

  • and eventually convicted of first-degree murder because there was insufficient evidence to

  • suggest the dingo even existed. The case was highly controversial.

  • During the trial, Lindy Chamberlain had been adamant Azaria was wearing a matinée

  • jacket over her jumpsuit at the time of her disappearance. In 1986, police discovered

  • Azaria’s missing jacket in an area full of dingo lairs while investigating an unrelated

  • incident. The Northern Territory Chief Minister immediately ordered the Chamberlain’s release

  • and the case was officially closed. • The 1988 film A Cry in the Dark, starring

  • Meryl Streep, depicts the events of the Chamberlain case.

  • 6 – Bethany Hamilton Shark Attack, • In 2003, thirteen-year-old surfer Bethany

  • Hamilton was attacked by a shark while surfing in Tunnels Beach, Kaui. She’d been lying

  • on her surfboard, with one arm in the water, when a hungry tiger shark swam up and ripped

  • off her arm, permanently severing it. • The attack occurred at 7.30 in the morning

  • and Hamilton lost an astonishing sixty percent of her blood. Fortunately, a doctor living

  • in a nearby hotel came to her rescue and she miraculously survived.

  • The offending tiger shark was hunted down and killed, and Hamilton returned to surfing

  • three weeks later. The broken surfboard Hamilton rode during the attack is on display at the

  • California Surf Museum. 5 – Roy Horn Tiger Attack,

  • Our second tiger entryseriously, don’t mess with these creatures!

  • In 2003, during a Siegfried and Roy show at the mirage, performer Roy Horn was attacked

  • by the seven-year-old tiger he trained and worked with.

  • For reasons unknown, Mantecore the tiger lunged at Horn during the middle of the show.

  • Horn was dragged off stage, leaving audience members nervously clapping, wondering whether

  • it was all part of the show. • By the time emergency workers arrived,

  • Horn had sustained breathing difficulties. He’d suffered substantial blood loss and

  • was rushed to the Trauma Centre of a nearby Nevada Medical Centre. Horn remained in a

  • critical condition for weeks following the attack and had to have part of his skull removed

  • to reduce pressure on his brain. • Despite all this, he had no hard feelings

  • towards the tiger and continued to work with him.

  • 4 – Dawn Brancheau Orca Attack, • In February 2010, a SeaWorld Orlando trainer

  • named Dawn Brancheau was killed after a 12,300-pound killer whale attacked her during a ‘Dine

  • with Shamushow. • Tilikum the whale reportedly yanked Brancheau

  • by her ponytail and dragged her down to the bottom of the pool. Witnesses who were there

  • claimed that by the time Tilikum and Brancheau were underwater, he had her by the waist and

  • the pool quickly turned red. • The incident is recounted in the 2013

  • documentary Blackfish. The film features interviews with SeaWorld staff, who claimed Tilikum’s

  • depression and other behavioural issues stemmed from the horrendous conditions he was kept

  • in. • Tilikum is the largest Orca in captivity

  • and has, incredibly, played roles in the deaths of three people.

  • 3 – William Winans Python Attack, • Less-than-a-year-old William Winans was

  • chilling, asleep in his crib one night, when a freak python appeared and wrapped itself

  • around his foot, constricting and attempting to eat it.

  • The python was discovered when William’s father came into the room at 11 p.m. to investigate

  • William’s crying. Thinking quickly, William’s dad removed the snake using a blanket. William

  • was then rushed to hospital, having sustained bruises, scratches and a bite mark.

  • The python is believed to have been a pet that had escaped from a neighbour’s

  • apartment. William’s mother said she had never seen any pythons around, and that someone

  • had clearly violated the building’s no-animals policy.

  • This demonstrates how easily escaped pets can become dangerous predators. Would never

  • happen with goldfish, though. Those are okay. 2 – Darla Napora Pit Bull Attack,

  • Darla Napora was a pregnant thirty-two-year-old Pit Bull advocate who was found mauled to

  • death in her California living room. Her carpet was soaked with blood when she was discovered

  • by her husband and reports say she was unresponsive and not breathing.

  • The offending canine was Napora’s two-year-old pet Pit Bull, which was immediately put down

  • when it later escaped the confines of its backyard.

  • Napora had been a member of Bay Area’s ‘Dog Lovers Responsible about Pit Bulls’,

  • a group campaigning to convince the public that pit bulls are safe to own. It’s unknown

  • whether she was killed by the vicious dog attack or the huge dose of irony.

  • 1 – Kerala Festival Elephant Rampage, • There has been an alarming rise in elephant

  • attacks and tramplings during Hindu festivals. • In the southern Indian state of Kerala,

  • elephants are customarily adorned with a decorative cloth called caparison and used in ceremonial

  • festivals. The world’s only Elephant Palace, located near the famous Guruvayur temple,

  • houses more than sixty captive elephants, which are called upon during festivals.

  • Ordinarily, elephants and humans coexist peacefully. However, there have been recent

  • reports of elephants going berserk during festivals, killing their trainers and severely

  • injuring more hundreds of onlookers. • Between 1998 and 2010, more than two hundred

  • and twelve people have reportedly died from elephant attacks. Can’t we all just get

  • along?

From a sharp-toothed zoo escapee to a killer mountain goat, we count ten of the

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