Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Student Jumps, Dance Into Tigers' Enclosure At Gwalior Zoo

By Hikmat Shah | Gwalior

Tigers are unpredictable by nature, wildlife experts have believed for long. But certain men can outsmart the big cat even when it comes to unpredictability. Take this for example. An engineering student in Gwalior visited the Gwalior zoo on Monday evening and reached the enclosure of white tigers.

Without the slightest provocation, Yashonandan Kaushik, a resident of Anand Nagar in Gwalior, scaled the boundary wall and jumped inside the enclosure and challenged a couple of tigers therein for a fight.

Stunned visitors witnessed how Kaushik, a student of electronic communication at a local college, made "exaggerated movements" for an hour trying to coax the tigers into fighting.
He even danced and grimaced at them as the scared animals huddled in a corner and watched him in horror.

One of the zoo keepers came to the animals' rescue when he went inside the enclosure and locked them in.

Kaushik was detained by police and left only after his family assured cops that he would be taken to a medical centre for psychiatric counselling.

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