Man jumps from train at Bronx Zoo, mauled by tiger
Photo credit: AP | Photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society, three Amur tiger cubs rest by a fallen tree limb at the Tiger Mountain exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in New York. Police say a man on Sept. 21, 2012, climbed into an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo and has been mauled by a tiger. (Sept. 20, 2010)
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A visitor to the Bronx Zoo was mauled by a tiger on Friday after he leaped from an elevated monorail train and plummeted over a fence into an exhibit, police and zoo officials said.
The man lost a leg in the mauling, police said.
The attack happened at around 3 p.m. in the Wild Asia exhibit, where a train with open sides takes visitors over the Bronx River and through a forest, where...
