The incident, which took abode Thursday morning at the Sunshine Coast's Australia Zoo, larboard 41-year-old Che Woolcott with "significant break wounds" to his arch and forearm, according to bounded media reports. He was advised at the arena afore getting transferred to the hospital.
Australia Zoo declared the adventure in a statement: "While walking through surrounding bushland at the Zoo, Ranu -- Australia Zoo's 12-year-old macho Sumatran tiger -- became ever absorbed in his ambience and if his abettor approached him to change direction, he swatted his paw consistent in a blemish on his larboard wrist, bicep and appropriate ancillary of the forehead."
Meanwhile, Australia Zoo dame and Irwin's wife accepted the adventure on amusing media, tweeting: "Hot day @AustraliaZoo. One of our tigers got hot & agitated and aching a keeper. Babysitter is ok, tiger is ok."She adapted her followers on the keeper's action a few hours later: "Happy that @AustraliaZoo's tiger handler, Che is home now and accomplishing well. Ranu the tiger acts like annihilation happened." A video accompanied the cheep assuming a abysmal blister on the zookeeper's forehead.In the video, the handler, in archetypal laid aback Aussie style, says he's "all good."
He adds with a grin: "Bit of a hot day... He [the tiger] let off a bit of beef and I got a few affront marks. These things appear alive with tigers."
Australia Zoo appearance a "Tiger Temple" allure and is home to three Bengal tigers and seven Sumatra bodies including Ranu, who is declared in his zoo contour as "cheeky" and "mischievous."
Along with his wife and family, Irwin founded the Australia Zoo as a altar for animals and attention facility. Known as the "Crocodile Hunter," he was dead in 2006 by a stingray affront to the chest while filming a documentary off Australia's arctic coast.
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