Woman narrowly escapes tiger’s bite after entering enclosure at US zoo

A woman from the United States tries to enter the tiger’s enclosure but comes out with great difficulty after the tiger attempts to bite her. She climbed the fence of the tiger cage at the Cohanzick Zoo in New Jersey.

Bridgeton police department said that the woman, dressed in a dark top and white shorts, was trying to stick her fingers through the fence which provoked the tiger as he came only a few inches ahead of her.

In the video viral on social media, it can be seen easily that her act of putting her fingers in the inner fence made the 500-pound tiger attack on her which she hardly escaped.

Another video post, which was deleted by the Police Department, shows a board where it was clearly said “Do not climb over the fence. Climbing over any zoo fence is against city ordinance 247-C”.

The police department also said, "Reminder to the public when visiting the zoo that it is against City Ordinance to climb over any fence”. The order given by the police department states that a person can be banned or restricted from visiting the zoo.

John Medica, Director of Recreation and Public Affairs for the City of Bridgeton gave a statement, "The high-quality care of the animals, along with the safety of our guests and visitors, is our top priority. Any visitor behaviour that places the animals, staff and members of the public in a potentially dangerous situation is unacceptable and will be addressed accordingly."

These Bengal tigers “Rishi and Mahesha” were taken by the zoo in 2016 when both of them were only cubs. At first, both of them were described as, "Gorgeous and ornery," by Bonnie Facemyer, who was the president of the Cohanzick Zoological Society at the time when the cubs arrived. Both tigers weighed 20 pounds as cubs each and now cubs weigh 500 pounds.

Both are Indian Bengali tigers which are endangered species.