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Kasatka, a performing killer whale at SeaWorld San Diego, tried to bite a trainer during a show.

A 431-lb Bengal tiger escaped from the Tigers Only Preservation Society, a 12-acre compound declared illegal by the New Jersey Division of Fish & Wildlife. Dozens of police and some helicopters descended upon a residential community near the compound to corral the tiger, whom they ultimately shot. The owner of the facility and self-proclaimed “Tiger Lady” denied the cat was hers.

A Siberian tiger cub was found alongside a highway after apparently falling or jumping from a trailer. A veterinarian at a wildlife rehabilitation center found several sores on the cub’s body that did not appear consistent with a fall onto the roadway.

A tiger with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus escaped from the cage and seriously wounded an animal trainer.

A previously healthy 5-month-old boy died from contracting Salmonella from the family’s “pet” iguana.

Five weeks after kiling his trainer, white Bengal tiger named Jupiter owned by Ron and Joy Holiday’s Cat Dancers kills owner by biting her in the neck while she hand fed him.

An elephant at the Indianapolis Zoo bludgeoned a zookeeper with her trunk, breaking the woman’s ribs. The keeper was bathing the elephant at the time of the attack.

Ruby, a 25 year old elephant at the Phoenix Zoo known for her paintings, was euthanized after a cesarean operation revealed that her full-term, still-born fetus had ripped her uterus which caused a massive infection through her abdominal cavity. Her male fetal calf weighed 320 lbs, twice the size of a normal newborn elephant.

A flamingo walked out of its exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo and roamed around the public area for about three minutes before the zoo opened.

Two tigers kept at a private residence escaped when the door to their pen was left open. One tiger was shot after he killed a neighbor’s hog. The other tiger attacked a dog that was tied to a chain.