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Tourists Scream As Lion Leaps At Them With No Fence
- Published_at:2017-03-23
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:LiveFocus West
- tags: tourists scream screaming lion jump hungry fence
- description: Safari park visitors were terrified when a lioness leaped at them with no fence between them. A visitor’s smartphone video shows the lioness sitting alongside a male lion at the Bioparque Estrella in the city of Monterrey, in the north-eastern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. Instead of a fence keeping visitors away from the big cats, a deep, wide trench separates them. Unlike the calm male, the lioness is in attack mode as an open-backed vehicle full of tourists drives past, eyeing the people hungrily and flexing her muscles. She suddenly leaps off the cliff on which she is perched and attempts to soar across the wide trench separating her from park visitors. Tourists scream but her leap is not quite far enough and she strikes the far cliff of the straight-sided trench too low to be able to clamber up. Park keepers said the lioness was attended by vets after falling into the deep trench but they found she was not injured. Zoo bosses said the lioness, named Elsa, had recently been rescued from a circus. Zoo spokesman Arturo Moar claimed that there had never been any danger to the public, as the trench is seven metres (23 feet) across but lions can only jump five metres (16 ft 5 in). However, the American Association of Zoos and Aquariums recommended in its publication Zoo Guidelines for Keeping Large Felids in Captivity that 7.6 metres (25 feet) should be the minimum width for a big cat’s moat. Elsa’s almost-successful jump on the video was from a sitting start, with no run-up, and some believe the upper limit for a lion’s horizontal jump to be 11 metres (36 feet).
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