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‘She seems to have crushed his throat’: Lioness at zoo kills father of her cubs in ‘unprovoked’ attack
A lioness killed the father of her three cubs in an attack on Oct. 15 at the Indianapolis Zoo. (Video: Reuters)
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It was hardly a surprise to hear the mighty roar of a lion at the Indianapolis Zoo. Chances were it was just Nyack, the zoo’s “very vocal” 10-year-old male African lion.
But an “unusual amount of roaring” last week prompted the zoo’s animal care staff to rush to the outdoor lion yard and investigate according to a news release from the zoo.
Upon arriving, they discovered a primal scene.
Nyack was locked in a fierce battle with Zuri, a 12-year-old lioness and the mother of his children — and he was losing.
“She had Nyack by the neck,” the zoo’s curator, David Hagan, told Reuters, describing the Oct. 15 attack. Attempts were made to separate the pair, but Zuri held on until Nyack stopped moving, Hagan said. A necropsy revealed the lion had died from suffocation because of injuries to his neck, the release said.
The sudden attack, which happened before the zoo was open to the public, has left staff and lion experts baffled: Why would a female lion attack a male she was not only familiar with but who also fathered her cubs?
A definite reason may never be known, but Craig Packer, principal investigator with the University of Minnesota’s Lion Center, told The Washington Post that Nyack’s death may be linked to his “unusual relationship” with Zuri.
“She apparently dominated him for the whole time they were together,” said Packer, who has extensively studied lions in the Serengeti. “That in itself is almost unheard of.”
He added, “I’ve never heard of a female that was that dominating of a male, ever.”
For eight years, Nyack and Zuri coexisted without incident and had “done really well together,” Hagan told WIBC . Prior to Monday’s attack, the zoo’s “detailed daily logs ... did not report any unusual aggression, injuries or wounds between Zuri and Nyack," the release said.
“We don’t know what the precursor to the fight was,” Hagan told WIBC.
In a Facebook post announcing Nyack’s death on Friday, the zoo wrote that it will conduct a “thorough review to attempt to understand what may have led to this.” Zuri and her three cubs, one of whom was present during the deadly clash, are all okay, the post said.
Zuri will remain at the zoo, according to the release. There are no current plans to change how the lions are being managed, zoo officials said.
Part of the zoo’s efforts to figure out what happened included calling Packer, who described the attack as “surprising” and “so unexpected.”
“They called me because they were puzzled, and I agree it’s puzzling,” Packer said. He added of the attack: “It was completely unprovoked and it was certainly not typical."
Zuri killing Nyack is bizarre for two reasons, Packer said: He was the father of her cubs, and she engaged him one-on-one.
Though the details of the incident are shocking, female lions attacking males is not unprecedented. In September, video footage showed a pack of lionesses attacking a male lion at the West Midland Safari Park in England, the BBC reported . That lion, who survived, had been introduced to the pride only last year, according to the BBC.
In the wild, Packer said, he has also observed females attacking a nomadic male, but only in an attempt to chase the “strange” lion away and protect their cubs. They might be trying to harm the male, but the intention is not to kill, he said.
Sukari, the lions' 3-year-old daughter, was in the enclosure during the attack. Zuri is described as an “ attentive and protective mother ,” who is usually keeping an eye on her cubs, according to the zoo. But Packer said Sukari did not appear to be “at risk from anything."
The incident, Packer said, may stem from the “unusual combination” of a “meek male” and an “all-powerful female.”
“I don’t usually associate this kind of personality with a female lion,” he said. “The fact that it developed at all is fascinating.”
Nyack was described by the zoo as “ laid back .” Zuri, however, was “large and very dominating,” Packer said. According to the zoo, Zuri weighed only 25 pounds less than Nyack.
Male lions are usually much larger than females and more aggressive, and “being next to a large male is like living next to a keg of dynamite,” Packer said.
“The females will be annoyed with the males sometimes and will kind of swat at them, but they’re pretty careful not to provoke them too much,” he said.
That did not appear to be the dynamic between Nyack and Zuri. Given Nyack’s meekness, Packer said it was likely Zuri didn’t receive the “usual pushback from the male that would be normal in this species,” which in turn allowed her to exercise dominance over him.
“Apparently, the male was always very subordinate to her, which is totally strange,” Packer said.
During last week’s brutal fight, Packer said Zuri attacked Nyack twice. The first time, Nyack managed to escape, but Zuri followed him, he said.
“It was the second time that she got him that she seems to have crushed his throat,” he said.
Nyack’s death left the zoo’s staff devastated, Hagan told Reuters. On social media, many who visited Nyack shared photos and paid tribute to him.
“My heart is broken,” one person wrote on Facebook. “He was the best part of the zoo.”
Another user reminisced about going to the zoo early in the mornings just to hear Nyack roar.
One person shared a photo of Nyack “calmly” leaning against the glass of his enclosure just days before his death. Zuri was lying just a couple of feet away, and “all seemed well,” the person wrote.
Packer said it remains a mystery why Zuri attacked only recently, adding that animals are “very unpredictable.”
“The female just seemed to be having a bad day,” he said.

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Learn About Five Unbelievable Animal Attacks at Zoos Around the World
July 20, 2012— -- intro: Zoos: They're supposed to be places of fun and learning, where curious animal admirers can observe an array of fascinating creatures at a safe distance under controlled conditions.
But sometimes, even at zoos, when humans get too close, tragedy can strike. Click through to read about five unbelievable animal attacks at zoos around the world.
quicklist: 1title: Berlin Zoo, 2009, Polar Beartext: On April 13, 2009, a woman jumped a fence at the Berlin Zoo, entering the polar bear enclosure during feeding time. After thrashing in the enclosure's moat with a bear biting her back, the woman was pulled to safety and treated for severe injuries.
A video of the incident shows the woman in the moat attempting to grab life preservers and ropes thrown by would-be rescuers while one of the bears repeatedly bites her rear end.
At one point the rescuers managed to lift the woman out of the water, but only seconds later she fell back in and was again attacked by the bear.
When rescuers were finally able to pull the woman out of the bears' moat, she was taken to a nearby hospital, police said.
"What she's done here, she should thank the good Lord she's alive," Jack Hanna, director emeritus at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, told "Good Morning America."
"Maybe they were already fed and wanted to bat her around some, because let me tell you something, that polar bear, in one split second she would've been history," Hanna said.
Police did not know why the woman jumped the fence into the enclosure, but they did issue her a citation for trespassing.
quicklist: 2title: Singapore Zoo, 2008, White Tigerstext: In 2008 at the Singapore Zoo, three white Bengal tigers mauled a zoo cleaner to death after the man walked through a moat surrounding their enclosure, the AP reported .
Amateur video shot by a zoo visitor shows a man, holding a broom and a plastic yellow bucket, wading purposefully across the moat toward the tigers' habitat. His arms spread wide, he does not resist as a tiger claws his chest and bites his neck.
Another tiger joins the first in nuzzling the man, who by this point seems to be shouting. After the tigers start to attack, he puts the bucket over his head.
"Get in the water!" a visitor repeatedly shouts. The attack proceeds.
A zoo official told the AP the man was Nordin bin Mondong, a 32-year-old Malaysian. Zoo workers eventually distracted the tigers and pulled Nordin away, but he died on the way to a hospital, the official reportedly said.
The official did not say why Nordin may have jumped into the tigers' area, the AP reported.
quicklist: 3title: San Francisco Zoo, 2007, Tigertext: On Christmas Day, 2007, a 350-pound Siberian tiger named Tatiana managed to escape its cage. The tiger mauled three men, killing one.
Seventeen-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr., of San Jose, Calif., was killed. The other two had surgery to treat their wounds.
Authorities were unsure of how the tiger escaped, but it was clear that somehow the animal traveled over a 20-foot wall and a 15-foot moat. Initially, authorities worried that four of the zoo's five tigers had escaped. Later they learned Tatiana was the only one loose.
Police were unsure how long the tiger roamed free at the zoo, which is open 365 days a year. Between 20 and 25 people were on site when the attacks happened, according to the AP. Employees and visitors were told to take shelter when zoo officials learned of the attacks.
When police arrived, they found Tatiana sitting beside one of the surviving victims near the zoo's cafe. When it moved toward officers, they opened fire and killed the tiger.
The event marked the second time Tatiana had mauled someone. On Dec. 22, 2006, the tiger attacked a zoo keeper during a routine public feeding. It reached through its cage, grabbed the zookeeper and tore flesh off her arm.
quicklist: 4title: Copenhagen Zoo, 2012, Siberian tigertext: Just last week, a 21-year-old man was killed after he entered the Siberian tiger den at the Copenhagen Zoo, in Denmark, the AP reported .
On July 11, an Afghan-born Danish citizen entered the den and suffered bites to the throat, face, chest and thigh, police told the AP. They didn't know how or why he entered the den, and suicide was a possibility, the report said.
"He has been in the water and the animals must have seen that and attacked him," a police spokesman told the AP. "He was killed in the water."
It was the first such incident in the 152-year history of the zoo, and the zoo didn't plan to kill the tigers, the A.P. said.
quicklist: 5title: Anchorage (Alaska) Zoo, 1994, Polar Beartext: In July 1994, a 29-year-old Australian tourist named Kathryn Warburton climbed a fence and railing to get close-up pictures of a polar bear named Binky at the Anchorage Zoo, the AP reported.
Warburton survived the attack with a broken leg and bite wounds, the report said.
Binky kept Warburton's shoe for three days before it was taken away by zoo staff, the Anchorage Daily News said.
The paper later reported that Warburton blamed herself and quoted her as saying, "It was the dumbest thing I've ever done."
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Small songbird with a round belly and long tail. Males have a black mask and a yellow throat and undertail coverts.
Females are brownish above with a yellow throat and breast. The brightness of yellow varies geographically.
The black mask on immature males is faint and patchy.
Immature females are pale brownish overall with yellow only on the undertail coverts.
Resident males around Lake Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico have a larger black mask that is bordered by yellow instead of white like Common Yellowthroats farther north.
Small songbird with a round belly and long tail. Males have a black mask bordered by white and a yellow throat and undertail coverts.
Females are brownish above with a yellow throat and undertail coverts, the intensity of which varies geographically.
Found in open areas with thick, low vegetation, ranging from marshes to grasslands to open pine forests.
Spends much of their time skulking low to the ground in dense thickets and fields where they can be difficult to see.
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Common Yellowthroats are small songbirds with chunky, rounded heads and medium-length, slightly rounded tails.
Smaller than a Yellow-breasted Chat; larger than a Ruby-crowned Kinglet.
Adult males are bright yellow below, with a sharp black face mask and olive upperparts. A thin whitish line sets off the black mask from the head and neck. Immature males show traces of the full mask of adult males. Females are a plain olive brown, usually with yellow brightening the throat and under the tail. They lack the black mask.
Common Yellowthroats spend much of their time skulking low to the ground in dense thickets and fields, searching for small insects and spiders. Males sing a very distinctive, rolling wichety-wichety-wichety song, and both sexes give a full-sounding chuck note that is easy to learn. During migration, this is often the most common warbler found in fields and edges. It sometimes joins other warbler species in mixed foraging flocks.
Yellowthroats live in open areas with thick, low vegetation, ranging from marsh to grassland to open pine forest. During migration, they use an even broader suite of habitats including backyards and forest.
New World Warblers (Order: Passeriformes, Family: Parulidae )
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