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Toddler Attacked by Wild Cat at Zoo but Escapes Serious Injury
NORMAN,
Okla. — A Norman zoo director says a 3-year-old boy was not seriously
injured when he was clawed by a 45-pound European lynx after the child
approached a chain link fence enclosing the cat.
Janet
Schmid, director of the Little River Zoo, said Tuesday the boy suffered
superficial wounds on the side of his head in the incident about 3 p.m.
Monday.
She said the cat has been placed
in an inside enclosure, and a solid fence has been erected to keep the
public away from its outside area.
The outside area is a chain link enclosure, including a fenced-in top.
She
said the boy was looking at swans when, following his sister, he left a
path at the zoo, went through a rope barrier, over a low railroad-tie
retaining wall and up to the cat's fence.