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Hanna, a 350-lb lioness at Wild Animal Orphanage, escaped from her cage and roamed a neighborhood. Police on the ground and in a helicopter found Hanna. The sanctuary director shot Hanna with a tranquilizer dart, frightening the lioness who charged and knocked the director down. The director is treated for a fractured pelvis and a bruised rib. Ninety minutes later Hanna was again found and another dart fired. Hanna charged the group and four police officers fired with handguns and shotguns, killing Hanna.

A 13-month-old boy dies after being attacked by a wolf-hybrid. The child suffered more than a hundred bite wounds and a punctured jugular vein.

A cougar was killed by a car along Interstate 280. It was unclear whether the animal was a “pet” or from the wild.

Jasper, a “pet” monkey, escaped through the back door of the bar his possessor was patronizing and was recaptured three days later.

Three African servals escaped after scratching through the screen on their possessor’s bedroom window. Two of the servals were recaptured and the other one was on the loose in the central Ohio Community.

A Burmese python bit an HIV-positive person.

A buffalo at a petting zoo behind Rachel’s Country Corner gored and trampled a 29-year-old caretaker to death. USDA officials were looking into possible violations of the Animal Welfare Act.

A tiger attacked a volunteer handler at Safari Joe’s Rock Creek Exotic Animal Park when she leaned against the cage. The tiger ripped off her left arm. The woman died from loss of blood. The tiger belonged to International Wildlife Center of Texas, which leased the building in the park.

The owner of Second Nature Exotic Cats Sanctuary was attacked and killed by one of two tigers he released from a building into a penned enclosure for exercise. Police shot both tigers to rescue the wounded and bleeding man, only to discover he was already dead. A search of the property found a third tiger, a lion, and a cougar.

Two wolf-hybrids escaped from their home and killed a llama. The wolf-hybrids were subsequently located and returned to their possessor.