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A 10-ft-long python escaped from his homemade glass cage and crawled into the bed of a 5-year-old boy. The snake clamped onto the boy’s hand and coiled around his arm. The boy was treated for bruising and fang cuts.

Four “pet” Alaskan wolves escaped from their enclosure and attacked a neighbor woman. The wolves tore her clothes, but she escaped injury.

A 4-year-old boy was mauled to death by a wolf-hybrid. The wolf-hybrid bit the boy several times and severed his jugular vein.

A chimp owned by a private farm near Festus went on a rampage and was shot by a teenage boy trying to defend his friends. The chimp’s son, Travis, would also go on a rampage and critically injure and permanently disfigure a woman, Charla Nash, on 2/17/2009 in Conneticut.

Three chimpanzees wandered out from behind an unlocked fence at ChimParty, a facility that rented primates for parties and commercials. One chimp was shot by a neighbor who felt threatened by the animals; the chimpwas later euthanized.

A kookaburra (bird) flew out of its cage at the Los Angeles Zoo before being captured the next day.

A man was mauled by his “pet” bear while fixing the corn crib used to cage the bear.

A poisonous cobra bit a snake charmer in front of a crowd of about 500 people during a performance of the Royal Palace Circus. The man was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment.

Jagger, a Bengal tiger working with Wildlife Safari, killed his trainer and injured his “owner” while being prepared for an advertising photography shoot.

A teacher filed a formal complaint against the Shrine Circus for the alleged abuse of one of the circus’ elephants. According to the teacher and her 8-year old child, an elephant was removed from the ring for failing to perform up to expectations and then chained by one leg and beaten with a bullhook until the animal began to scream.