Zoo attacks

Risks to keepers

Oct 2016 London Zoo evacuated after gorilla escapes.

July 2016 Zoo keeper killed by a tiger in its enclosure at Terra Natura, Benidorm.

May 2016 Staff shoot dead a gorilla after he grabbed a boy who had fallen into a moat at Cincinnati Zoo. April 2016

Keeper killed by a tiger at a zoo in Florida.

May 2013 Zoo keeper Sarah Mcclay, 24, killed by a tiger at South Lakes Wild Animal Park, Cumbria. Feb 2000

Darren Cockrill, 27, a keeper, killed by an elephant at the Port Lympne wildlife park owned by John Aspinall.