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Woman climbs into lion enclosure at Bronx Zoo to dance in front of animal, prompting police investigation
- Zoo says her actions ‘could have resulted in serious injury or death’
- Video of incident posted on Instagram slammed by internet users
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![A screen grab from a video showing a woman inside the lion enclosure at the Bronx Zoo. Photo: Real Sobrino via Instagram](https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/1020x680/public/d8/images/methode/2019/10/03/eb6dfee4-e53d-11e9-8a10-b9721f28293e_image_hires_052752.jpg?itok=3nfOVoeg&v=1570051677)
The woman climbs over the fence as other zoo patrons protest.
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“You’re not supposed to do that,” a man says three times, in a video uploaded Saturday to an Instagram account that appears to belong to the barrier-jumper herself.
But the woman keeps going. She steps through foliage to face the lion, which stares at her from across a moat as she waves. She holds her arms out at the animal and shakes her body.
Other short clips from the same account and from a bystander’s Instagram show her wiggling her fingers, dancing and at one point telling the animal: “Baby! I love you!”
“I REALLY HAVE NO FEAR OF NOTHING BREATHING” a caption on one of the woman’s videos declares.
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