PANTHER INJURES TWO MEN

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21975, 26 December 1936, Page 4

PANTHER INJURES TWO MEN

UNLOADING OF ANIMALS FOR SYDNEY ZOO (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) SYDNEY, December 10. Two Taronga Park Zoo officials were injured by a savage black panther which, with other animals, was being unloaded from the steamer Nieuw Holland. Nervous and frightened after their long sojourn in the confined spaces between decks, the animals gave zoo keepers and officials a strenuous and dangerous day. While the black panther was being unloaded the wooden screen covering the bars of its cage fell off. Unaware of the danger, a wharf labourer moved

1o replace it. The Taronga Park over- J seOr (Mr Charles Camp) flung lonian 1 aside as the panther struck with to . speed of lightning. Although he savro f the wharf labourer, Mr Camp hints® 1 ] was slashed on the back of the hano by the razor-like claws. . _ Warning keepers to stand clear while the covers were being remove" at Taronga Park, the curator of “L zoo (Mr Le Soeuf) advanced towar® the box. As he reached it. the pan® struck again, and gashed Mr ** Soeuf s thumb from tip to base. . “The panther was one of the savage animals in the consigrunemsaid the zoo secretary, who brow#"* the animals back from the East Ten men pushed and pulled w* quarter of an hour before they su ceeded in inducing the baby eleP"rL to walk down the plank from the to the waiting float. In the zoo the elephant took fright and bo* trumpeting loudly. It raced down yard, with a keeper hanging * hobble chain fastened round one r He succeeded in stopping the anna which was soon taken to its new