Originally published: September 22, 2012 11:33 AM
Updated: September 22, 2012 11:41 AM
By CANDICE FERRETTE [email protected]
Photo credit: AP | The ticket booths are empty and the gates are chained shut at an entrance to the Bronx Zoo. Zoo officials say a visitor who leaped into an exhibit and was mauled by a tiger was alone with the 400-pound beast for about 10 minutes before being rescued. (Sept. 21, 2012)
The monorail at the Bronx Zoo is open Saturday, but the tiger involved in the mauling of a man that leaped into the cat's enclosure will not be on view, park officials said.
The tigers have a rotating schedule, and Bachuta, the 11-year-old, 400-pound male Siberian tiger involved in the mauling Friday afternoon, is not scheduled to be on exhibit Saturday.
The tigers' Wild Asia exhibit...
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Updated: September 22, 2012 11:41 AM
By CANDICE FERRETTE [email protected]
Photo credit: AP | The ticket booths are empty and the gates are chained shut at an entrance to the Bronx Zoo. Zoo officials say a visitor who leaped into an exhibit and was mauled by a tiger was alone with the 400-pound beast for about 10 minutes before being rescued. (Sept. 21, 2012)
The monorail at the Bronx Zoo is open Saturday, but the tiger involved in the mauling of a man that leaped into the cat's enclosure will not be on view, park officials said.
The tigers have a rotating schedule, and Bachuta, the 11-year-old, 400-pound male Siberian tiger involved in the mauling Friday afternoon, is not scheduled to be on exhibit Saturday.
The tigers' Wild Asia exhibit...
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