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Sima, a 150-lb tiger, lunged and grabbed a 6-year-old boy’s head in her jaws. Zoo to You brought the 1-year-old, declawed tiger in connection with a children’s awards ceremony for selling magazine subscriptions. The boy needed 55 stitches to close his wounds.

A python escaped its cage and killed and ate a dog. The snake was confiscated and taken to a rescue facility.

A 200-pound west Caucasian tur, a rare and endangered goat, gored a zookeeper at San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park, while the woman cleaned the tur’s pen. The puncture wound under her ribs required surgery.

Keltie, a 23-year-old grey seal who had suffered from decades of chronic health problems, died of unknown causes. Her health issues included a fungal skin infection that left her with white spots on her nose and above her eyes, and also affected her flipper, making it bleed for months. She had also lost many teeth.

Griff, a 19-year-old female Masai giraffe, died after a week-long illness.

A man suffered four bites to his arm by his “pet” rattlesnake and was rushed to the hospital for antivenin.

A 3-year-old girl was bitten on the neck by a serval cat.

A “pet” kinkajou scratched and bit three children. A judge ordered that the animal be euthanized to test for rabies.

A handler with Sterling and Reid Circus faces animal cruelty charges after being accussed of beating an elephant resulting in bloody lacertations on the animal. The chief animal handler with the circus was also arrested.

A Micronesian kingfisher was rushed to the zoo hospital in a weak condition, with labored breathing. The bird was treated with fluids and later force-fed a baby mouse, according to a pathology report. The bird was found dead at the hospital the next day, with the mouse lodged in its throat. The cause of death was determined to be West Nile Virus.