Death cut short a teenager's dream of working with animals when he climbed into a zoo enclosure—and was fatally mauled by a lioness.
In a tragic incident at Parque Zoobotânico Arruda Câmara in João Pessoa, Brazil, a 19-year-old named Gerson de Melo Machado scaled a high wall and entered the lion enclosure, where he was attacked by a female lioness in full view of horrified visitors. The young man died from his injuries, ending his hope of becoming a big-cat tamer.
