2. African Wild Dogs Kill Two-Year Old Boy
In 2011, a two-year old boy fell into an animal enclosure at the Pittsburg Zoo and was attacked by 11 African wild dogs. According to Kim McCreery, a senior researcher for the African Wild Dog Conservancy in Tucson, Arizona, African wild dogs have never been known to attack humans in the African bush.
Barbara Baker, the zoo’s president, said that staff responded “within seconds” but quickly determined the attack was fatal. The Pittsburg Zoo has been opened since 1898, and according to Baker there has never been an “a visitor incident of this magnitude.
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