Mary Walrath-Holdridge reports Man mauled to death after jumping into lion enclosure in India to take a selfie:
A zoo-goer in India is dead after scaling a lion enclosure in hopes of taking a selfie, according to multiple reports.
The man, 34-year-old Prahlad Gurjar of the Alwar District in northern India, was visiting the Sri Venkateswara Zoological Park in Tirupati, India on Thursday when he noticed a 12-year-old male Asiatic Lion named Dungpar on display in an enclosure, according to People.
The man, who appeared to be drunk, then decided to climb over the enclosure’s four-foot safety wall and six-foot metal fence, despite protests and warnings from a nearby zoo employee, who was performing their routine rounds, The Times of India reported.