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A man is suffering injuries on both arms after a tiger attacked him at a tourist attraction in Florida’s Everglades area on Tuesday afternoon.
The Collier County Sheriff’s Office confirmedvia their Facebookthat the attack occurred around 4:30 p.m. local time, when deputies were dispatched to Wooten’s Everglades Airboat Tours.
The announcement noted that the tiger was not harmed, and that its caretaker was able to safely contain the animal.
“We are having a hard time comprehending this happening again,” the Facebook announcement said, while onTwitter, the sheriff’s department wrote, “Hard to believe but another tiger attack. Man injured, tiger ok.”
Wooten’s Everglades Airboat Tours is an attraction in Ochopee, Florida, that offers airboat tours, swamp buggy rides, alligator shows and more, including the opportunity to see tigers, lions and otters at itsAnimal Sanctuary.
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The site details that Wooten’s sanctuary contains two lions and two tigers.
Ablog entry on their siteacknowledged that there was a tiger incident on Tuesday, with a note that read, “More information coming soon.” A comment request from PEOPLE was not immediately returned.
Aprevious entryon the blog identifies the two tigers at Wooten’s as a male white tiger, and a female Siberian tiger.
The site mentioned that all the animals in the sanctuary get “regular USDA and veterinary visits to make sure” they are “happy and healthy.”
Tuesday’s incident marks at least the second tiger attack in three months in Florida.
A Florida deputyshot and killed a tigerin late December at the Naples Zoo at Caribbean Gardens after the animal attacked a man.
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According to theCollier County Sheriff’s Office, which responded to the incident, the zoo tiger attacked and “seriously” injured the man, sending him to the hospital.
The sheriff’s office stated that the attack took place after the man made his way inside an unauthorized area of the tiger enclosure at the Naples Zoo and started to either feed or pet the big cat.
source: people.com
