Zookeeper Dies After Leopard Attack at Beekse Bergen Safari Park - What We Know
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A zookeeper at Safaripark Beekse Bergen in the Netherlands has died, three days after she was attacked by a leopard inside an indoor enclosure. She had worked at the park for almost 40 years. There are no cameras inside, and nobody yet knows exactly how it happened. Here's what we know.
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• Saturday 24 October, ~11:00: the keeper was inside an indoor enclosure with two male Persian leopards and suffered serious head and neck injuries (CONFIRMED – park via NL Times, DutchNews)
• She called for help by walkie-talkie; a colleague reached her quickly; an ambulance and trauma helicopter were sent. She died in hospital on Tuesday 27 October (CONFIRMED)
• Stormy weather had kept the leopards indoors; keepers work in pairs but enter enclosures separately; entering an indoor enclosure with animals inside is "highly unusual" (REPORTED)
• Unknown: whether she knew the leopards were inside, and whether one or both attacked; there are no cameras in the enclosure
• The leopards will not be put down; the Dutch Labour Inspectorate is investigating
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0:00 Zookeeper dies after leopard attack
0:15 What happened
0:31 Her call for help
0:46 Almost 40 years at the park
1:03 Why were the leopards inside?
1:18 The central question
1:33 Persian leopards
1:50 It has happened before
2:08 The investigation
Sources: Safaripark Beekse Bergen via NL Times, DutchNews, CBS News, IBTimes; BBC (Hamerton 2017); NBC/Inquirer (Zurich 2020).
Images: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Safaripark Beekse Bergen (file photos), Persian leopards (file photos, not the animals involved), indoor big-cat enclosure at Ústí Zoo (illustrative); Hamerton Zoo Park entrance (Geograph, CC BY-SA). Map: Drift Theory News.
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