In Austria, a rhinoceros killed a zoo worker and injured another keeper
In Austria, a keeper died after a rhinoceros attack, and another zoo worker was seriously injured. The incident happened at the Salzburg Zoo in Hellbrunn, CNN reports. The rhinoceros attacked the 33-year-old keeper on the morning of September 12, when she was doing her work in the enclosure. The woman died at the scene, the police say. Illustrative photo, white rhinos. Martin Harvey/GettyImages Another caretaker, a 34-year-old man, was also seriously injured when he tried to scare the animal away. The man was taken to the University Hospital of Salzburg, where he underwent emergency surgery. “We are completely shocked and still don’t know how it happened. Rhinos are usually smeared with insect cream early in the morning. This always happens in a protected area,” zoo spokeswoman Ulrike Ullmann told CNN. Due to the incident, the zoo will be closed on September 13. The Salzburg-zoo website says that the zoo is home to 150 different species and 1.5 thousand animals, including the endangered white rhinoceros. There are two females, Yeti and Tamika, and two males, Tamu and Athos, living in the enclosure. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), white rhinos are the second largest land mammals after the elephant. Adult males can reach 1.85 m in height and weigh 3.6 tons. We will remind, earlier in Australia, a 77-year-old man died as a result of an attack by a “domestic” kangaroo. Read also: In Texas, a woman was attacked by a snake that fell from the sky, and then a hawk
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