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Title: Jaguar kills zookeeper in Denver
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Scotsman
URL Source: http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=300072007
Published: Feb 24, 2007
Author: Keith Coffman
Post Date: 2007-02-24 20:17:13 by Red Jones
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Views: 8815
Comments: 24
Sat 24 Feb 2007 Jaguar kills zookeeper in Denver By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters)- A male jaguar killed a zookeeper at the Denver Zoo on Saturday and employees put the animal down, police said. "I can confirm that a female worker was killed and we're still conducting an investigation," Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson said. According to a statement posted on the zoo's Web site http://(www.denverzoo.org), the 6-year-old jaguar attacked the unidentified worker inside its enclosure late Saturday morning. Armed employees entered the enclosure to retrieve the injured woman when the cat threatened them. "The jaguar approached staff trying to assist the zookeeper and it was shot and killed," the statement said. The mauled worker was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead, Jackson said. Her identity and age were not released. The zoo was closed after the incident, but the public was never in danger, zoo officials said. The 140-pound jaguar, named Jorge, came to the Denver Zoo from the Santa Cruz Zoo in Bolivia in March 2005 after he was orphaned in the wild. This month, the zoo announced it had obtained a 16-month-old female jaguar to breed with Jorge. (c) Reuters 2007. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world. This article: http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=300072007
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#2. To: Red Jones, neil McIver, diana, robin, lodwick, red jones.swarthy guy, tommythemadartist, zipporah, christine, (#0)
I am one of the few people you know that has been attacked by a jaguar Maybe the only person you know? Not quite as dramatic as it may appear, tho, but I prolly still have scars. Had taken a trip down the Rio Napo on a tree dugout canoue in the Equadorian Amazon basin from Misauyei (sp) to Coca, next to the Peruvian border. Our $12/night hotel had a small managarie of local animals caged up in the back. One cage had two jaguars kits. I am bad about guessing the age of jaguar kits, but maybe they were two months old - bout the size of a normal Sylvesterius, but they are squatter, at least at that point in their lives. I was fascinated. Consequently I bowed down to get a better look at the amazing animals. KARAMMM - one of the kits, faster than light (I mean that) got into position and threw it's paw out the cage wires and slashed the left side of the top of my head. I had NO IDEA or thought that I was putting myself in harms way, the sucker was just supernaturally quick. Have NEVER seen an animal move so quickly before or since. Made Sylvester seem slow. My friends laughed themselves sick with the notion that a jaguar had attacked me. The wound wasn't bad - BUT in the tropics with a feline scratch I knew the score. Cleaned it throughly and got some peroxide from the Pharmicia, and paid good attention to it for the next few days. The next day some kids came up to us with monkeys in cigerette packs. Yes. One guy came up and was talking to me and I noticed there were three monkeys hanging onto his hair. Tiny guys, bout the size of your thumbs. They said if thay ate any amount of chocolate they would die immeadiately. I bet Neil knows what they are. An adult wanted to sell us a remarkable skull of an adult jaguar, for what seems like $40. I figured US customs would shoot me on the tarmac if they saw that. An oil company had a fenced in pipeyard nearby. For the guard it had a (I think) tapir, like a supercharged boar, rooting around in it. I think pit bulls would take one look at that and head to the doggy parlor for a pedicure. I know I had no intention of jumping that fence.
I've seen pictures of monkeys that are about the size of a thumb (hugging a thumb, actually), but don't know what they are called.
They seemed to be very little people. I was totally taken with them - the guy had three of them hanging in his hair.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latesthe 140-pound jaguar, named Jorge, came to the Denver Zoo from the Santa Cruz Zoo in Bolivia in March 2005 after he was orphaned in the wild. This month, the zoo announced it had obtained a 16-month-old female jaguar to breed with Jorge.
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