Whitetail jumps into cheetah enclosure at zoo (not good for deer)

A white-tailed deer did not survive an encounter with two cheetahs after apparently jumping into their enclosure Friday at the National Zoo, authorities said.

It was the most recent of the violent confrontations in the Washington region involving deer, which have been proliferating.

In the zoo incident, the dead deer was found in the cheetah exhibit about 11:40 a.m. after a keeper heard a commotion, the zoo said. The zoo said the cheetahs appeared unharmed.

In November 2009, a deer, apparently from the adjacent Rock Creek Park, jumped a zoo wall and was killed by two lions.

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Source: The Washington Post

TF&G Staff

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