Siberian Tiger Mauls Man Who Broke Into Calgary Zoo

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Two 27-year-old men broke into the Calgary Zoo early Monday morning by climbing the 8-foot-fence that surrounds the zoo. The men proceeded to climb over the safety fence and into the tiger cage.

When they made it between the safety fence and the actual cage fence, they startled the cage's resident, a 2-year-old Siberian Tiger named Vitali, normally a docile beast. Vitali did what instinct told him to do, and grabbed one of the men.

"My guess would be that the gentleman was hooked by a claw and the arm dragged in and then continued to be attacked from that point," said Dr. Sandie Black, the zoo's head veterinarian. The man who was struck had no life-threatening injuries.

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