BRIDGETON, N.J. (CBS) — Video footage from the Cohanzick Zoo in New Jersey shows a woman harassing a tiger and nearly being bitten through a fence, police said.
Police in Bridgeton, Cumberland County, are now trying to identify the woman seen in a zoo video and photos that police posted to Facebook on Tuesday.
The tigers are separated from the zoo visitors by a high wire fence. A few meters from the fence there is also a shorter wooden fence that runs along the walking paths.
Bridgeton Police
The video shows a woman standing past the wooden fence – right up against the wire fence, sticking her hand through one of the holes in the fence. A tiger then paces back and forth, placing both paws on the wire as the woman walks away and jumps back onto the walkway.
“We would like to remind the public that when visiting the zoo, it is against city ordinances to climb over a fence,” Bridgeton police said.
Anyone with information should contact Officer Ron Cusano at 856-451-0033, extension 0. Anonymous tips can be submitted online at BPD.tips.
Zoo visitors interfering with big cats is nothing new – in 2019 there was a woman jumped over barrier at lion enclosure at Bronx Zoo in New York City and threw roses and money to the lions.
The woman, Myah Autry, later turned herself in to police.
