Search Exotic Incidents Database

A “pet” lion killed a woman and severely injured her friend when the woman entered the animal’s cage.

A lion with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus bit off the index finger of a woman who put her hand in the cage.

A “pet” ferret bit an 8-year-old girl on the cheek, causing two small puncture wounds. The ferret was euthanized and tested for rabies.

Fifteen lions were shot and killed after they escaped from the Ligertown Game Farm. Game farm owners were treated for injuries after an attack by at least one of the cats. Owners were charged w/animal cruelty, fined around $10,000 and served jail time.

A man climbed the fence to the snow leopard exhibit at the Miller Park Zoo to pat the leopard on the head. When the leopard latched onto the man’s hand, the man jerked free and sustained a 3-1/2-inch cut on his palm.

An African lion escaped from its enclosure and was found in the bed of the neighbor’s pickup truck. The lion was shot.

A man was bitten by his 5-ft-long Asiatic “pet” cobra.

An 8-ft-long, 45-lb python attacked a university lab technician when he was holding the snake, Ganja, while her cage was cleaned. The snake clamped her fangs around the man’s nose. It took five people to control the snake and work its mouth off his nose. The 24-year-old man had helped care for the snake for more than three years. The snake’s “owner” removed her from the lab and found alternate housing for her.

A man was bitten by his 8-ft-long “pet” forest cobra he kept in his bedroom.

A mountain lion at the Phoenix Zoo gashed a 5-year-old’s arm after he wandered too close to the animal’s cage and waved a stick at the animal.