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After two tragic incidents in months does safety at English zoos need a rethink?

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Even though a man was mauled to death by a tiger and a three-year-old was attacked in a crocodile enclosure, experts say public protection is robustOn a busy Saturday afternoon at a zoo in Yorkshire, visitors looked on in horror as a man climbed into a tiger habitat, minutes after posing for a photograph beside it. Eye witnesses said he scaled a metre-high viewing barrier, before dropping into the enclosure below, overpowering a woman who tried to pull him back.

Even though a man was mauled to death by a tiger and a three-year-old was attacked in a crocodile enclosure, experts say public protection is robust

On a busy Saturday afternoon at a zoo in Yorkshire, visitors looked on in horror as a man climbed into a tiger habitat, minutes after posing for a photograph beside it.

Eye witnesses said he scaled a metre-high viewing barrier, before dropping into the enclosure below, overpowering a woman who tried to pull him back.

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