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Tiger at Carole Baskin’s Big Cat Rescue bites volunteer during feeding time
A volunteer who regularly feeds big cats was bitten and seriously injured by a tiger at Carole Baskin’s Big Cat Rescue sanctuary in Florida.
Key points:
- A volunteer at Florida’s Big Cat Rescue will undergo surgery after a tiger attacked her
- Candy Couser, 69, was bitten by three-year-old male tiger Kimba
- The zoo was made famous by Netflix series Tiger King earlier this year
Hillsborough County Fire Rescue received a trauma alert call about 8:30am on Thursday local time from the sanctuary, which became famous through the Netflix series Tiger King.
Ms Baskin, CEO of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, wrote in an email that the volunteer, 69-year-old Candy Couser, was feeding a three-year-old male tiger named Kimba when she noticed the animal was not in…
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