VIDEO: Zoo Animal Attacks. Luckily The Animals Forgot About the Glass Wall

These people from the video above got really lucky because there was a huge glass wall between them and the attacking animals and everything was just funny.

But others weren’t so lucky and actually ended up feeling the rage of the animals on their very own skin.

According to listverse.com, with a little common sense and adherence to regulation, most zoos are safe.

Indeed, they play host to millions of visitors every year, many of them children.

But it would be hubris to think it perfectly secure to imprison hundreds of carnivores, serpents, and ten ton megafauna in cages without incident.

Below are ten reasons why lions, tigers, and bears might just belong in the wild.

I have made a conscious decision to try to spread the events out between different species, but this list constitutes only a sliver of the multiple horror stories that unfold every year throughout the world.

Australian tourist Kathryn Warburton got far more than she bargained for when she scaled two safety fences to get a photo of Binky, a 1,200lb polar bear.

The bear promptly stuck his head through the bars of the cage, seizing her. Warburton’s leg was broken and she suffered lacerations.

She might have been killed outright if not for quick thinking zoo visitors who thrashed Binky with branches, causing him to relinquish his hold.

Only a month and a half later, the bear mauled another tourist, a drunk teenager whose leg was torn up. Despite the attacks, Binky became a minor celebrity, his face adorning zoo merchandise.

The tapir is a strange looking beast similar to the pig, found in Central and South America and parts of Asia.

On the morning of 27 November 1998, zookeeper Lisa Morehead was feeding a Malayan tapir named Melody (a new mother with a 2 month old baby in her enclosure) when the animal bit her left arm.

Morehead fought back, suffering facial lacerations, and internal injuries including a punctured lung, but lost the battle for her arm. It was torn off at mid-bicep, too mangled and contaminated to be reattached.

As a feature of a new Wolf Center exhibit, 24 year old Patricia Wyman, a wildlife biologist, was hired by the preserve to be a caretaker to five gray wolves and conduct education programs with the public.

Wyman had only been in the wolf enclosure twice prior to the attack, once with a supervisor and once to feed the animals.

Other employees asserted that the wolves were shy, and generally kept their distance whenever people entered their area.

Although no one directly witnessed the attack, it is believed that Patricia may have tripped, triggering the wolves’ predatory instincts.

She was found nude and covered with bite marks, some of the flesh on her arms and legs torn away. The wolves were destroyed and tested for rabies; all tested negative.

Of course there is no denying the appeal of a panda; they may be very simply the cutest beasts on the face of the planet.

But they are also equipped with very capable jaws, as three separate visitors to the Beijing Zoo discovered.

The first, a drunken 35 year old named Zhang Xinyan, jumped into the panda enclosure to cuddle with 240lb Gu Gu. He was quickly rebuffed and bitten on the legs.