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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...them in a huge, sandy-bottomed chalk pit. "Their Majesties expressed themselves," reported the Illustrated London News, "as specially pleased with the tameness of the animals." Last week a visitor's hat blew over the low double fence around the lion pit. Obligingly after it hopped one Stanley Stenson, 25, a zoo truck driver. His ami was stretched through the second fence when, like a cat after a bird, a lion leaped, sank its great fangs, pulled him down into the pit. Three other lions pounced. While onlookers screamed helplessly, the lions dragged Stanley Stenson off into a clump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Whipsnade | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

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