Man Bitten by 450-lbs Tiger Near Los Angeles
5 Dec 2007 18:25 Africa/Lagos Man Bitten by 450-lbs Tiger Near Los Angeles YARMOUTH PORT, Mass., Dec. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A man was critically injured in a tiger attack at an animal sanctuary northeast of Los Angeles. Chris Orr, a caretaker, was bitten in the neck by a 450-pound Bengal tiger and, according to news reports, remains in intensive care. Orr was attacked as he cleaned the enclosure of a 4-year-old tiger named Alexander. The attack occurred at Shambala Preserve, which is run by the actress Tippi Hendren. The sanctuary has 65 cats, including lions, tigers, leopards and servals. "This just goes to show that big cats are, were, and will always be wild animals," said Josephine Martell of IFAW. "There are 15,000 thousand big cats just like this one in captivity all over the United States. You can never take the wild out of these animals, no matter what you do." The primary caretaker looked away for a moment "and it [the tiger] just jumped,...