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The Louisville Zoological Gardens, commonly known as the Louisville Zoo, is a 134-acre (54 ha) zoo in Louisville, Kentucky, situated in the city's Poplar Level neighborhood. Founded in 1969, the "State Zoo of Kentucky" currently exhibits over 1,200 animals in naturalistic and mixed animal settings representing both geographical areas and biomes ...
Name of animal Image Date of death Details Jocko the monkey July 1880: The performance monkey from Goldsboro, North Carolina, was found dead after he hanged himself with a makeshift noose made with clothesline.
The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium received some public and media backlash for its treatment towards the grieving mother; Robert Mongeluzzi, a lawyer for the Derkosh family, said in a statement that "the zoo's position is dead wrong and shameful", while Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A Zappala, Jr. declared Maddox Derkosh's killing a ...
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A bulldozer operator died when the machine went over an embankment and down a steep hill, ejecting him.
Brown was killed while trying to recapture a bear from his roadside zoo. A posse shot and killed the bear. [282] October 2, 1933: Grant Taylor, 11, male: Captive: Brookhaven, New York: On his walk home from school, Taylor stopped to feed an apple to a bear tethered in front of an inn. The bear mauled Taylor and crushed him against a wire cage.
Hundreds of car accidents were reported in Virginia, Indiana, Kansas and Kentucky, where a state trooper was treated for non-life-threatening injuries after his patrol car was hit on Interstate 65.
Kentucky — Collins was bitten during a religious service in the community of Arjay, Bell County. [66] [67] [68] August 8, 1995 Melinda Brown, 28, female Rattlesnake: Kentucky — Brown was bitten while handling a snake during a religious service in Middlesboro, on August 6, 1995. She died two days later.