米国コニーアイランドのサーカス獣舎で、ロシア産の雄グマがライオンに襲われて死亡
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa161/SumatranTiger/sdff.jpg 飼育下における事故。ライオンがクマの喉を咬んで殺害
It Failed to Save Him. Th« bear which performed In a cag-ewith the other fcnimals at
Mundy's Show In Luna Park died yesterday. His end-was brought about by the
biggest lion in the chow. On Monday night t°he lion attacked th*bear In the arena.
They were separated. Later, when the animals were being: ledback to their cages, the
bear turned on the lion and a fight followed. The bear clawed the lion's head and
almost blinded him, but the lion lacerated th« bear'* throat. ' Yesterday afternoon the
bear's throat began to awell, and It became necessaryto send for Dr. P, Kohnstamm of the
Twenty-third Street Veterinary Hospital. Th« veterinary surgeftn declared that the
bear was dying, but to give rest to his larynx the op'eratSon of tracheotomy was
resorted to. The bear waa strapped to a table and held in that position while the
trachea was I opened and a silver tubeinserted. Then the wound- was sewed upand the
bear went to sleep. He died four hours later, not from the operation, but from other
founds he had received in the battle with the Hon. Elka' Novif Grand Exalted
ドイツのサーカスでライオンが、引き離そうとした女性調教師とともにクマを殺害
「CASSEL, Germany,March 13」より
A woman lion tamer's heroic attempt to separate a battling lion and bear in a.
circus menagerie wagon proved fatal to herself and to the beasts today. Tho tamer
entered the cage armed only with a wire whip and succeeded in wrenching tho bearfrom Uie
lion's deadly claws. Suddenly
"the lion leaped upon thewoman and clawed her fatally.
Her dying cries attracted the attendants who succeeded in dragging her from the cage only
after shooting the Hon.
The bear also died from his Injuries.
The battle between the beasts started after the lion had crushed a wooden partition in the cage.
Alfred Court in his "My Life with the Big Cats", 1955, p. 70, mentioned polar bears
intruding into his big cats den and one of them was quickly killed by a couple of
tigresses even with lassos on. Some days later another polar bear was killed by a lion,
p. 132.
アルフレッド・コートの著書「My Life with the Big Cats」のP70には、大型ネコ科猛獣の獣舎に
迷い込んだ複数のホッキョクグマが、鎖につながれていた2頭の雌トラによってあっという間に殺された
事実が記されている。
またその数日後には、別のホッキョクグマが1頭のライオンによって殺されてしまった(P132)